Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

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Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

This is one of our allies in the Middle East? Another black eye for Islam as well?

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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.

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This world is seriously a messed up place. I don't know how people can sleep at night when they hand out these types of sentences.

[Borodog]

Don't we have wonderful allies?

[AlexM]

It's Canada's fault.

[XXXNoahXXX]

Personally, I think the title of this thread is completely misleading. It implies that she is getting 200 lashes for being a victim. She is not. She is getting some of those lashes for BREAKING THE LAW. She then compounded these problems by trying to get the media to affect the judicial process.

[Borodog]

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Personally, I think the title of this thread is completely misleading. It implies that she is getting 200 lashes for being a victim. She is not. She is getting some of those lashes for being in the car of an unrelated male. She then compounded these problems by trying to get the media to affect the judicial process.

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Yes. Clearly, bitch had it coming.

[mosdef]

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It's Canada's fault.

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F*ck you.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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Personally, I think the title of this thread is completely misleading. It implies that she is getting 200 lashes for being a victim. She is not. She is getting some of those lashes for being in the car of an unrelated male. She then compounded these problems by trying to get the media to affect the judicial process.

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Yes. Clearly, bitch had it coming.

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So it was either

a) ignorance of the law, which is never an excuse.

b) flouting the law.

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Personally, I think the title of this thread is completely misleading. It implies that she is getting 200 lashes for being a victim. She is not. She is getting some of those lashes for BREAKING THE LAW. She then compounded these problems by trying to get the media to affect the judicial process.

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Breaking the law of being in the car of an unrelated male? Then going to the media to affect that judicial process where someone gets 90 lashes for doing that? Then getting an extra 110 lashes for bringing attention to this? I hope you're joking about this but probably not.

[ConstantineX]

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Personally, I think the title of this thread is completely misleading. It implies that she is getting 200 lashes for being a victim. She is not. She is getting some of those lashes for BREAKING THE LAW. She then compounded these problems by trying to get the media to affect the judicial process.

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It completely tilts me when people say this. Why shouldn't I get any more upset because its a stupid law? The law isn't supposed to be a replacement or guide for our moral intuition - in a perfect world, it would be completely the opposite.

The Saudi regime in general, tilts me. They are a cabal of rich families bribing their populace into a standard of living they can only afford because of oil, and thus enforce extreme religious preferences because of those ignorant people. And they make dumb purchases and investments because they aren't responsible for creating the wealth that was handed to them. Oil is really a curse, I wouldn't wish it upon any developing country.