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Saudi judge sentences gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for adultery
2009-02-11
Too bad she's not a terrorist. She could go to fingerpainting school...
A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night. The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man. He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night.

She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces.

According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually 'confessed' to having 'forced intercourse' with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah. He ruled she had committed adultery - despite not even being married - and handed down a year's prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city.

She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.
Gonna wait? Must be a liberal judge...
The Saudi Arabian legal system practices a strict form of medieval law. Women have very few rights and are not even allowed to drive. They are also banned from going out in public in the company of men other than male relatives.
Posted by:tu3031

#11  If tomorrow we discovered fusion or clean energy, we've got no reason to deal with these people or their dirty oil.

Do you really believe that the one would allow us to have clean, cheap, energy? That would solve too many problems they depend on to get them elected.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-02-11 22:09  

#10  So what is the position of the Big O with respect to our Saudi allies? Has anyone heard anything yet?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2009-02-11 21:11  

#9  The way to deal with ignorant and superstitious people is with ignorance and superstition.

She shouldn't have said she was gang raped, but raped by demons pretending to be men, who said that the baby, when grown would destroy the Kaaba.

And the demons will keep raping women until one of their offspring succeeds.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-02-11 20:01  

#8  Judging by the IP, S2 is just your garden- variety antisemitic Swiss.

Resident of Switzerland, Pappy. Lots of those are moneyed Arabs or moneyed others. Not that the Swiss necessarily need outside help to be antisemitic, but accuracy in such matters is important. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-02-11 19:01  

#7  I'm waiting for someone in the west to discover fission. Then the power will be too cheap to meter!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-02-11 18:43  

#6  They will have their wealth and evil ways until the oil runs out (~50-100 years).

If tomorrow we discovered fusion or clean energy, we've got no reason to deal with these people or their dirty oil.
Posted by: Grolush Darling of the Hatfields3195   2009-02-11 18:31  

#5  Let's see here

1) unmarried adultery
2) gang-raped
3) whipped
4) year in jail
5) forced birth of rapist's child

Not one bit of good found.
Posted by: Grolush Darling of the Hatfields3195   2009-02-11 18:26  

#4  Where are the comments from idiot S2 on this?

Judging by the IP, S2 is just your garden- variety antisemitic Swiss.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-02-11 18:06  

#3  the sauds have to go; end of story.
Posted by: Elmusoting Tojo4877   2009-02-11 17:30  

#2  Where are the comments from idiot S2 on this?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2009-02-11 13:18  

#1  Our allies in WOT
Posted by: George Bush   2009-02-11 12:27  

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