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Submitted by Antigone on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 22:27
If you’re looking for justice, Saudi Arabia is the wrong place to look especially if you’re a woman. Ever hear of a rape victim being punished as if she were the criminal rather than the victim? I’ve heard something as ridiculous as a provocatively dressed woman blamed for her own rape when the defense attorney tries to break down her character in a feeble attempt to convince the jury the rapist had no choice but to force himself on her just because she wore a tight blouse and short skirt and had a reputation for sleeping around - that warped mentality of ‘she was asking for it.’ That’s bad enough but how about a rape victim being sentenced for the circumstances surrounding her rape? BBC reported this tragic case of a 19-year old Saudi Arabian woman who was gang-raped by 7 men and has been sentenced to 6 months in prison and 200 lashes for her ‘crime.’
What crime you ask? She was the VICTIM of a gang-rape. What the fak did she do? She failed to adhere to the country’s faked-up segregation law, a rather strict interpretation of Islamic law that forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was in a car with a strange man at the time of the attack. Initially sentenced to a mere 90 lashes for doing nothing wrong in the civilized world, she pissed off the Saudi court of injustice by appealing her unjust sentence which prompted the court to punish her even further by doubling her punishment. How dare she complain or expect justice in a faked up place like Saudi Arabia? After all, she’s probably lucky she wasn’t sentenced to death for failing to submit to a man’s sexual urges or because one of her 7 assailants didn’t reach orgasm while sexually assaulting her. For fak’s sake, in the oh-so-civilized Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, beheadings and stonings are recreational public spectacles as if they’re sports events, like an American baseball game, rather than displays of the kingdom’s barbaric methods of punishment. Tossing out the first pitch takes on a whole new meaning with these faks. Every human rights organization in the world will tell you ‘due process’ is non existent on Saudi turf and despite all the bad press and lobbying for change by human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, nothing happens to stop the madness.
This is a country where religious police patrol the streets on the lookout for people committing dastardly crimes such as listening to music or watching tv shows from the West. Women are most closely scrutinized and must adhere to an unyieldingly strict dress code which insists they be even more covered from head to toe than my dog is by his fur coat. Should a woman do something as risqué as show a hint of ankle or too much eyeball and be caught by the ‘Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,’ the offending woman is not only chastised as a family disgrace but also faces severe criminal punishment. A girl like Britney Spears would’ve been stoned to death years ago for showing that much skin in Saudi Arabia unless she was hired to entertain the male royals. Then it’s ok.
So I say to myself: Where the fak are the United States and United Kingdom to intervene in this ongoing human right crisis in Saudi Arabia? They’ve gone to war for much less. While Saddam Hussein’s human rights record was cited as partial justification for the war in Iraq, Saddam was a teddy bear in comparison to the Saudi government with its appalling human rights record. However, what’s more appalling is the inaction of the world’s 2 leading democratic watchdogs in response to the Saudis’ blatant disregard for humanity.
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Thats just sad
It's just sad that some country's are still so behind the United States. Although it may be part of their culture, every human deserves to be treated fairly. They need to take a lesson on human rights!
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Saudi Arabia
This is just another of the Saudi cover ups so that they can try to maintain an innocent image of their country.
Historically, the decisions
Historically, the decisions of qadis were subject to review by the ruler, whose primary role was to ensure that the Islamic community lived in conformity with the sharia. In effect, the judiciary was not an independent institution but an extension of the political authority. This traditional relationship between qadis and the king still prevailed in Saudi Arabia.
Rubbish...!!!!
I totally disagree with you specially as far as your information about justice with women is concerned. Saudi Arabia gives a perfect package as far as justice is concerned. But we over here in US don't have any respect for women but they do have. As I have watched it by my own two eyes. So, stop taking rubbish until you have visited the place by your own.
U R Funny
Most probably you sell the foreclosure homes of your site to wealthy Saudis who visit the West Coast, that is why you are so keen to S.A. Let me not comment on how ethical it is that you are doing.
I'd rather accept this than believe that you are such an ignorant person who clearly lives in denial. Obviously you know a lot more than the UN Human Rights Watch! Clearly, all those people speak up their arse while you not best.
The Saudi Arabian legal
The Saudi Arabian legal system in 1992 was based on the sharia, or Islamic law. The sharia was applied throughout the kingdom in strict accordance with the interpretation of the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam. Because pious Muslims believed that the sharia was sacred law, they accepted as judges, or qadis, only men who had spent a number of years studying the accepted sources of the sharia: the Quran and the authenticated traditions (hadith) of the Prophet Muhammad's rulings and practices.
Differences between the East and West
While I agree with you that the "justice" that the rape victims received were completely faked up, some things that you listed - such as women wearing clothing that cover the body - cannot be considered as faults. Not all women want to display their body parts or dress "like Britney Spears".
The Western world has no power over and cannot interfere Saudi Arabia. Who controls the energy holds the power.
Some differences
I think that there is a difference between dressing like Spears and the niqab. The problem is that women there do not have a choice. They live under a state of fear and indoctrination.
I agree with you that the West is unwilling to do anything though.
Today the average American
Today the average American G.I. in Iraq uses about 20.5 gallons of fuel every day, more than double the daily volume consumed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2004. Thus, in order to secure the third-richest country on the planet, the U.S. military is burning enormous quantities of petroleum. And nearly every drop of that fuel is imported into Iraq. These massive fuel requirements—just over 3 million gallons per day for Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Energy Support Center—are a key reason for the soaring cost of the war effort.
Let us hope, pray, and push
Let us hope, pray, and push for increased world attention to atrocities like what we're seeing in Saudi Arabia, so that women around the world can enjoy the justice, freedom, and equality that the Creator intended for them to have.
What will pray do exactly?
Praying will do absolutely nothing. As long as the US gov is bending over the Saudis for the oil, absolutely fak all is gonna change.
As for your so-called 'creator', he does not seem to really give a flying fak about the women in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps he is a sexist like the Saudis or perhaps their god is more powerful than your god.
This os not about a place or
This os not about a place or religion, this is about people, first thing, the nasty people who can see a woman whitout thinking to abuse her, second one, a lot of them and no one can ask for some respect for this girl, my mother teach us never being with eyes closed and head down when a woman is on danger, but this guys, just go with the crowd, shame... and then the people who can thing by theirselves and see it wrong to punish the victims, and let this still happening beause they sont want to do a positive change, to much coward and bad people.
poquer
ironic
It's really weird and ironic that Saudi Arabia is known to have a strict and very proper justice system, however there are a lot of cases of injustices and human rights violations.
Justice
If Americans are not stupid then why Bush says forgave me i make mistake to attack on Iraq. Who is the responcible of killing thousand of Iraqies.
What????
Are you drunk or smth? I thought that alcohol is not allowed where you are. Not only many Americans are stupid (which is what we clearly write in our blog) but Bush is stupid and dangerous as your government there. Apparently your Wahabi ideas do not allow room for much liberties.It is obvious that you are a frequent reader of our blog, otherwise you would realized by now how we feel about the war in Iraq.
Who do you think you are??
Yeah, who do you think you are ?
If there is a place of injustice, it will be in your country !!!
Before talking about other countries, check your country first and find out what happened to Jaimy Jones who was raped by ten of her American co-workers without any mercy in Iraq !!!
Poor Jaimy is just an example of many American women who suffer of injustice in your country.
So, keep your nose out of our country !!!!!!!!
Freedom of Speech
At least you can write this from the safe place of your American home!
As for the injustice in the US or of the US troops in Iraq, we equally condemn it. Perhaps you have not checked our web site long enough to understand what we represent and what we believe in.
We despise the war in Iraq and the attrocities commited by the US troops there and all over the world.
If you do not like our freedom of speech, feel free to go back home, where women's rights is non-existent. But, of course, your government is in bed with the US administration and have given you the choise to live in the US and express your opinion freely. I wonder if you know what freedom of speech really is all about.
To conclude, I would like to express our gratitude for providing the first hate comment and prove the fanatism/bigotry of people like you. Keep 'em coming.
Cover ups by Saudi Government
Regarding the story about the married saudi woman who was re-sentenced to 6 months in prison and 200 lashes [http://asmira-mahmoud.livejournal.com/#asset-... ], I am disturbed by the way that Saudi Arabia is trying to cover up reality of their Abuse and Injustice - in this case to a 19 yr old married female citizen - and giving the world impressions such as, "She was an adulteress in the first place".
If this gang-raped woman was indeed an was an adulteress, why would she, her husband or her lawyer go to the Western media in the first place?
This is just another of the Saudi cover ups so that they can try to maintain an innocent image of their country.
I personally know of first hand stories of innocent foreign workers in the saudi kindgom forced against their will into signing false statements/contracts written in Arabic, and then prosecuted on the basis of the signed documents.
Moreover, there are foreigners who do not practice their state religion - the Wahhabi islam - being persecuted whether they be Muslim, Christian or Hindu. More often than normal, these innocent workers are falsely accused of drug and pornography possession and then deported, sentenced to imprisonment or beheaded. How sad!
Cover ups! Over and Over again!!! The Saudi Government and its judicial and legal systems need to grow up to become civilized. It is well beyond time for them to start acting like human beings and learn how to treat others - whether female or male, whether foreigners or citizens, whether Wahhabi muslims or not - with dignity, honor, respect, tolerance and individual freedom!
Asmira Batali Mahmoud
http://asmira-mahmoud.livejournal.com
Abused in Saudi Arabia
“We were always kept in our rooms…they locked the doors from the outside.”
— Indian Muslim woman employed as a hospital cleaner in Jeddah, 1998 - 2000.
“I was not allowed to leave the house.”
— Filipina Christian woman who worked for a Saudi family in Jeddah for four months in 2003.
http://www.Abused-in-Saudi-Arabia.com