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Originally Posted by kane
I was not 100% correct. here is the story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7106234.stm
A woman was raped by 7 men. The men who did the raping were sentenced to lashes and sentences ranging from 10 months to 5 years in jail. . . in short (at least to me) pretty much a slap on the wrist.
The woman was sentenced 200 lashes and 6 months in prison because at the time of the rape she was alone in private with a man who was not a relative. After pressure that was put on the king and led by the US oppressor Hillary Clinton the king pardoned her.
That sounds like a loving, caring kind of place to me.
Here is another.
http://wn.com/saudi_woman_sentenced_to_lashing
a 75 year old Syrian woman who was living in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 40 lashes, four months in prison and was deported out of the country simply for having two unrelated men in her house.
here is another
http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider...tim-100-times/
A Filipino woman working in Saudi Arabia was raped by a co-worker. She pressed charges against the guy who did it. She was sentenced to 100 lashes for having sex out of wedlock because in Saudi Arabia all sex out of wedlock - including rape - is illegal and punishable by jail time or lashings.
Another fantastic little story here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ne-school.html
here a 13 year old girl had a cell phone at school which was against the rules. She was lashed 90 times in front of her classmates.
But, as you say, I'm sure these are all just situations that are done to protect women from making bad choices or to be tempted into bad things. |
Well we probably disagree about what a slap on the wrist is.
1000 lashes of a whip and 5 years in jail to me is a little more than a slap on the wrist, but hey, that's subjective I guess.
I'd say most people when reading what you wrote would have guessed that the girl got all these lashes but the guys got away with it with a slap on the wrist meaning almost nothing. 1000 lashes and 5 years in a Saudi jail for rape? Not a slap on the wrist.
I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, I was just pointing out that rape is in fact illegal in the Middle East and that people get more than a 'slap on the wrist' for doing it.
You have to remember that you aren't usually hearing the full story with these articles. For example just recently you remember that Iranian woman that was supposed to be stoned for adultery, when in reality what she was charged with was murder and killing her ex-husband.
Kids are hit with sticks all across the world in school for breaking the rules. Only in North America is it wrong for a teacher to hit a kid, and only for the past couple of generations has it been that way.
That said I don't like countries led by religion and I think that Saudi Arabia could relax their laws a little. But if they have elections that are fair and free and the people vote and the vote comes back that they want to stick with their rules as they are now, it doesn't mean they are barbaric or wrong. It means they are just as right as what is happening in the United States, rules set by the people for the people. It's as simple as that, just because you guys do things one way it doesn't mean every other way is wrong.