The Wondrous World Of ISLAM Exposed Female rape victim gets 200 lashes and six months in the slammer.
Female rape victim gets 200 lashes, and six months jail.
November 16, 2007 08:45am
A COURT in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail.
The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms - was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,'' the Arab News reported.But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.
A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.''
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.
Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shi'ite community.
But the woman's lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.
In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.
The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.
Ms Lahem, also a human rights activist, said yesterday the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.
He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.
Ms Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and "contradicts King Abdullah's quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system.''
King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.
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Fatima, I lived and worked in Malaysia, and was married in Malaysia to my wife Rosemary on June 20 1953 who gave birth to our first son in S -pore 23-9-54.
Most of our friends were Muslim. Our neighbour was was a Malay civil servant, who loved the smell of eggs and bacon cooking.
We lived at 1B Larong 1, Jalan Storey. Johore Bahru. Johore. Our servant was Puteh Binte Anam, our best friend Abdul Karim Bin Anang (Tom) I visited him in 1960 and my family visited him again in 1986 he died shortly after.
We wrote to each for over thirty years and still have some of his letters written in beautiful copperplate style.
BTW our Malay neighbours daughters were Aiziza? and Fatima.Hmm. And they were beautiful too.
Thanks for calling.
Every war and every religion has much hidden sick desires. Christians ain't no better not now in Iraq and not in past through slavery. When it comes to rape Christians raped far more children & women.
Male dominated cruel and stupid inane sharia law is disgusting as it is fear driven, insane lunatic gun firing out of control mobs demonstrate the stupidity and uncontrollable followers of islam.
Btw , I have a rat who is hiding in my garden shed, the kids have named it ALLAH.
ps, I am not a Christian, simply a nice pleasant person.