Saudi Arabia: Stop rape, beat the victim

Okay I guess all of you have already read the story where a woman in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months jail after getting gang-raped. In case you haven't, you can read the BBC report where the woman's lawyer, obviously in possession of good sense and not a cultural relativist, HERE.

She wasn't punished for the rape itself, but a highly retarded law against sitting in an unrelated man's car. It's her own fault. What made her think she should go out unless you're accompanied by a male relative or a husband or something anyway. Clearly a Westernised dog. She might even think herself an individual.

Maybe in Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabist wonderland, men cannot be trusted to not rape women, who really shouldn't be walking around showing their ankles unescorted by their uncles anyway, and so we need laws like that, and we should viciously punish women who violate these laws.

It's for the greater good.

It's what God would have wanted.

Maybe in a country where men can actually come up with positively evil laws like this, it may be needed. Maybe indeed such laws are needed in a country where men have a free hand when it comes to raping women.

And why not? Why not rape?

Imagine finding four witnesses, men of good repute, to witness penetration! (We should be glad she found such men!)

Imagine a woman standing forward to report a rapist when you see rulings like this!

Of course, the problem is, the "strange person" was an ex-boyfriend she was sitting in the car with, and had nothing to do with rape. In fact, he too was raped.

At least she didn't steal one of the guy's underwear or something. She would have lost her arm.

To quote from the BBC report her lawyer, a Muslim by birth but a decent man by reason:

Abdel Rahman al-Lahem told the BBC Arabic Service that the sentence was in violation of Islamic law:

"My client is the victim of this abhorrent crime. I believe her sentence contravenes the Islamic Sharia law and violates the pertinent international conventions," he said.

"The judicial bodies should have dealt with this girl as the victim rather than the culprit."

Imagine that.

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Addendum: This is some judges do not deserve to be judges.

(If you think that the normal punishment is 200 lashes and six months jail, and that her punishment wasn't aggravated by the fact that she was gangraped, and the judge doesn't have a giant cock stuck up his beard, or that 200 lashes and six months jail is somehow appropriate punishment for sitting in an unrelated male's car... you probably didn't read the New York Times report.)

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Also in case some of you think it's just one retarded judge and absolutely nothing to do with culture, religion and how powerful the fundie element is, I'd like to remind you that this is the country where the police stopped schoolgirls from escaping a burning building because they weren't in proper Islamic dress.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mi...ast/1874471.stm

"Help mum the house is on fire!"
"Okay let's run wait you are showing the hair on your head that is not proper let's put on the tudung first."
"Oh yes mum you're right my chastity OHGOD I AM BURNING."

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If Malaysia gets any more rightwing Islamic I'm getting outta here before the next teargassing of yellow-wearing protestors