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| Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes |
| 2006-11-03 |
| A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married. The sentence was passed at the end of a trial in which the al- Qateef high criminal court convicted four Saudis convicted of the rape, sentencing them to prison terms and a total of 2,230 lashes. The four, all married, were sentenced respectively to five years and 1,000 lashes, four years and 800 lashes, four years and 350 lashes, and one year and 80 lashes. A fifth, married, man who was stated to have filmed the rape on his mobile phone still faces investigation. Two others alleged to have taken part in the rape evaded capture. Saudi courts take marital status into account in sexual crimes. A male friend of the rape victim was also sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone with her in the car. The court heard that the victim and her friend were followed by the assailants to their car, kidnapped and taken to a remote farm, where the raping occurred. The victim was quoted by Okaz newspaper as saying she had expected harsher penalties for the assailants, especially as they had pleaded not guilty. Her husband and family said that they would appeal to the court Saturday for harsher penalties for a crime which has shocked public opinion in Saudi Arabia and been the subject of months of debate. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 now whip it. into shape. shape it up. get straight. go forward. move ahead. try to detect it. it's not too late. to whip it. whip it good. |
| Posted by: Thoth 2006-11-03 16:40 |
| #10 There's some shit about a cat and it's meat in there somewhere. Can't find it though. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-11-03 16:39 |
| #9 Nothing will be done here until we have jihadis detonating themselves in shopping malls and killing people on the street and in our schools. Even then the professional hand wringers will piss and moan that we are over reacting, and that we should have tolerance and understanding. It is going to take an internal purge, by force of arms to set this country back on the right path. Someone else mentioned a Military Junta a while back, I believe, that a small core of committed patriots are going to have to do some industrial killing. We might even have to resort to Constitutional Jihadism domestically to get things rolling. However the tipping point is reached, when it tips, there is going to be a blood bath, everywhere. The world, what will be left of it is not going to be sane. Enjoy whatever quality time you can with friends and family, it may not last much longer. Buy ammo! |
| Posted by: Mick Dundee 2006-11-03 14:24 |
| #8 And this is the desert cult that the left and some traitors on the right want us to "tolerate". Bullshit. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-11-03 10:40 |
| #7 There is a tasteless joke about tenderized meat in here somewhere but I am not finding it. |
| Posted by: Choque Thuth8530 2006-11-03 10:20 |
| #6 Our 'friends' the Saudis. By the way, Prince Charles should attend the whipping and then comment on whether he approves. Asshat. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-11-03 10:18 |
| #5 Stepping right out of the 9th century, into the 10th, our friends, the Saudis. Let me bow, and put a coin in the box for Mecca. (I had to fill up, don't you know.) |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-11-03 09:36 |
| #4 It's our future, folks, because we can't be bothered to fight it. Killing the perpetrators of this crap makes Amnesty and HRW upset, so we must coddle them. Saying such things are unacceptable in the civilized world upsets the left, so we must let it happen here. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-11-03 07:51 |
| #3 Primitive and contemptible is what it is. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-11-03 01:55 |
| #2 Deploreable. |
| Posted by: closedanger@hotmail.com 2006-11-03 00:29 |
| #1 Amnesty International was unavailable for comment because they were too occupied with hand-wringing over the Bajaur madrassah airstrike. A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip It is this sort of institutionalized abuse of women that reserves Islam its place on history's scrapheap. Even without terrorism, Islam would still be invalidated by its policy of Abject Gender Apartheid. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-03 00:19 |