Saudi punishes gang rape VICTIM with 200 lashes

[TehBorken]

God, those Saudis are beyond belief. This girl is gang-raped, so what do they do? They punish HER. Their "justice" system is about as f*cked up as anything could possibly be. [hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"] Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

[span class="lingo_region"]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.[/p][span class="lingo_region"] 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.[/span] [/p][/span][a href="vny!://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071115145104.rykb7bub&show_article=1"]vny!://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071115145104.rykb7bub&show_article=1[/a]

[ripper]

Unbelievable. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Talk about perversion of justice. Normally i don't like to comment about other religions, live and let live, but this is too much. What is wrong with these people and their medieval beliefs.

[Lil Me]

Totally agreed.  Well said, ripper.  

[P.C.]

I hate to put my ignorance out here so blatantly....but is this a religious issue....or a cultural issue.  (or is it a combination...or is it the same thing ?)  I'm not making any kind of statement here.....I really don't know which is the case. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]    

[Sportsdude]

cultural. shi'ia law isn't 'muslim' law its old tribal laws that have nothing to do with the religion. For example there's nothing in the koran that says if a man commits adultery his wife the woman who committed the act with him, gets stoned to death.

Shi'ia law is tribal law, is the equivalent of the law of Nebuchadrezzar. His idea of punishment was an eye for an eye etc. Basically that's what Shi'ia law is except it comes from a time when women were basically not considered humans. Its not the religion itself its the tribalism within the religon. i.e. Salem witchcraft trials for the "christian" example.  

[ripper]

P.C. wrote:
 I hate to put my ignorance out here so blatantly....but is this a religious issue....or a cultural issue.  (or is it a combination...or is it the same thing ?)  I'm not making any kind of statement here.....I really don't know which is the case. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]

   
 It is both. This is why this entire region will always be a shithole. Religion rules all. Europe use to have the same problems. A greedy and power hungry Pope. He unleashed a wave of terror unlike any seen before upon the masses. And the idiots willingly and joyously followed not realising that they too could be the next heretic. It wasn't until the people got their heads out of their asses did Europe finally thrived.