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Saudis defend punishment for rape victim 2 hours, 13 minutes ago RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi judiciary on Tuesday defended a court verdict that sentenced a 19-year-old victim of a gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes because she was with an unrelated male when they were attacked. The Shiite Muslim woman had initially been sentenced to 90 lashes after being convicted of violating Saudi Arabia's rigid Islamic law requiring segregation of the sexes. Let's keep an open mind about this. The thing I try to do is think in terms of equivalents. Jumblat's delight needs to be tempered a little. Whenever someone tries to place himself above others it's good to remind the person where he comes from and how little reason he has to feel superior. I remember being shocked in 1966 when a French court found a man innocent of murdering his wife when he found her having an affair. Her punishment was to be held by him on a hot stove, all burners on, until she died. The court ruled that the husband was justified because the wife had been "unfaithful". In other words, in a Christian country supposedly far more humane and certainly more Christian than a Muslim country, such barbarity was permitted. And then there is the long, dismal, history of women rape victims being victimized all over in court proceedings...for decades this travesty was allowed to occur. It was commonly said by such women that they were being raped a second time...or victimized all over again. The result was that few women dared step forward because seeking justice was almost worse than being raped; openning the wounds all over again and inviting publicity that tried to show YOU were at fault...or a cheap woman who might well have "asked for it". This is in no way to justify what happened in Saudi, but to remind self-righteous Christians, especially when they crow about their superiority, that there is plenty of unjustice and brutality on all sides. What made the difference in the United States is the secular law...but Jumblat and others would like nothing more than Sharia Law...at heart I think they're jealous of the respect religious intolerance gets among fanatical Islam. We're seeing a gradual imposition of that kind of thing in America with the attack against abortion rights. Finally, Islam is 700 years younger than Christianity. Go back 700 years in Christian history and you'd be in the 15th century A.D., time when the burning flesh of innocent women was lighting the Dark Ages and Christian Sharia Law ruled even kings. That period in our history was called the Dark Ages...I wonder why? Muslims the world over are shocked and outraged by this kind of thing...and when the United States stops propping up repressive and backward regimes, as they have done around the world, the time may come when a rebirth and enlightenment will spread through Islam...as it did once in Christian lands...and the best sign that this is not Islam at all is in the numbers of people converting to Islam... Jumblat should remember that he came into this world somewhere between a stream of piss and a turd, like the rest of us. He should remain as humble as his origins were unspectacular. --------------------- |
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