This is the mentality we are dealing with in the Middle East. Do you
really think such people can be reasoned with and expected to play nice
if we just got up and left Iraq? This is the stuff they will subject
your wives and daughters to as they spread across the region and world.
The form of Islam being practiced here amounts to nothing more than
slavery.
We have two choices: Let these savages continue to abuse women and
religious minorities as they have for 1500 years or try to foster some
hope for the persecuted by letting them see freedom is something within
their grasp also.
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Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes
Nov 15 10:51 AM US/Eastern
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.
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 Shiite 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 Shiite community. The
convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich
Gulf state.
Lahem, also a human rights activist, told AFP on Wednesday that 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.
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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