The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.
The victim's attorney, Abdulrahman al-Lahim, contested the rapists' sentence, contending there is a fatwa, or edict under Islamic law, that considers such crimes Hiraba (sinful violent crime) and the punishment should be death.
"After a year, the preliminary court changed the punishment and made it two to nine years for the defendants," al-Lahim said of the new decision handed down Wednesday. "However, we were shocked that they also changed the victim's sentence to be six months in prison and 200 lashes."
The judges more than doubled the punishment for the victim because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to a source quoted by Arab News, an English-language Middle Eastern daily newspaper.
Judge Saad al-Muhanna from the Qatif General Court also barred al-Lahim from defending his client and revoked his law license, al-Lahim said. The attorney has been ordered to attend a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Justice next month.
Al-Lahim said he is appealing the decision to bar him from representing the victim and has a meeting with Justice Minister Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh on Monday.
Al-Lahim said he wanted the Justice Ministry to take "a very clear standing" on the case, saying the decision is "judicial mutiny against reform that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz started and against Saudi women who are being victimized because of such decisions."
Women are subject to numerous restrictions in Saudi Arabia, including a strict dress code, a prohibition against driving and the need for a man's permission to travel or have surgery. Women are also not allowed to testify in court unless it is about a private matter that was not observed by a man, and they are not allowed to vote.
The Saudi government recently has taken some steps toward bettering the situation of women in the kingdom, including the establishment earlier this year of special courts to handle domestic abuse cases, adoption of a new labor law that addresses working women's rights, and creation of a human rights commission.
CNN was unable to reach government officials for comment.
" Saudi Court Ups Punishment For Gang-Rape Victim"
:joke: :doh Arabism is the one true religion of peace. :doh :joke:
As WWI was overshadowed by WWII, the free world soon forgot about the arabismic (arabysmal :lolAnd people say the war isn't justified :roll:
" Saudi Court Ups Punishment For Gang-Rape Victim"
:joke: :doh Arabism is the one true religion of peace. :doh :joke:
And people say the war isn't justified :roll:
We aren't fighting the Saudis.
But we are indeed engaged in a struggle against Wahabbism. This medieval interpretation of Islam is synonymous with the Kingdom.We aren't fighting the Saudis.
We aren't fighting the Saudis.
But we are indeed engaged in a struggle against Wahabbism. This medieval interpretation of Islam is synonymous with the Kingdom.
More often than not, the Saudi judiciary will allow the family of a female charged with a Zina offense (illicit sex) to determine her punishment. It matters not a whit to male family members if a female relative was forcibly raped. All that matters is that she was a party to illicit sex and has thus dishonored both herself and the family. In virtually every instance in which male family relatives adjudicate Zina punishment, a death sentence is agreed upon. At this point, strict measures are implemented to prevent the female from committing suicide. Such an outcome would defeat the Saudi family tradition of commingling execution with abject intimidation.
Two methods of family execution for a Saudi female are favored in the Kingdom. One favored method involves drowning the female in the family swimming pool. This brutality is witnessed by the extended family... sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Women and children are forced to attend and observe. The body remains in the water until it is fully bloated.
The second favored method is horrific almost beyond words. A room in the house is emptied of everything and sealed... plunging the room into total darkness. Within this pitch black enclosure, the female will remain until she expires from starvation. Before this end occurs though, she will first go insane. Female family members will be forced to listen to her almost inhuman screams for hours on end.
Typically, the corpse of the executed female will eventually be deposited in a shallow and unmarked grave far out in the Saudi desert. No one will ever mention her name again. In all ways, she has been expunged forever.
Even a convicted murderer in Saudi Arabia can expect a quick execution (beheading) in Riyadh's Deera Square (better known as Chop-Chop Square).fvcking savages.:doh
Even a convicted murderer in Saudi Arabia can expect a quick execution (beheading) in Riyadh's Deera Square (better known as Chop-Chop Square).
A Saudi female who is raped? An intended barbarism is inflicted.
If israel wants a strict interpretation of the torah, etc. integrated as a system of government, it would be termed judaism.Thelost1 said:We aren't fighting the Saudis.Jerry said:Radical Islamic law is only inforced in that one country? Oh, I didn't realize.Utah Bill said:We should be....nearly all of the 9/11 Terrorists were Saudis....But the Bush family has friends there, so they went after Iraq instead.
Go figure.
But we are indeed engaged in a struggle against Wahabbism. This medieval interpretation of Islam is synonymous with the Kingdom.
More often than not, the Saudi judiciary will allow the family of a female charged with a Zina offense (illicit sex) to determine her punishment. It matters not a whit to male family members if a female relative was forcibly raped. All that matters is that she was a party to illicit sex and has thus dishonored both herself and the family. In virtually every instance in which male family relatives adjudicate Zina punishment, a death sentence is agreed upon. At this point, strict measures are implemented to prevent the female from committing suicide. Such an outcome would defeat the Saudi family tradition of commingling execution with abject intimidation.
Two methods of family execution for a Saudi female are favored in the Kingdom. One favored method involves drowning the female in the family swimming pool. This brutality is witnessed by the extended family... sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Women and children are forced to attend and observe. The body remains in the water until it is fully bloated.
The second favored method is horrific almost beyond words. A room in the house is emptied of everything and sealed... plunging the room into total darkness. Within this pitch black enclosure, the female will remain until she expires from starvation. Before this end occurs though, she will first go insane. Female family members will be forced to listen to her almost inhuman screams for hours on end.
Typically, the corpse of the executed female will eventually be deposited in a shallow and unmarked grave far out in the Saudi desert. No one will ever mention her name again. In all ways, she has been expunged forever.
Bombs cannot differentiate between evildoers and their prey.Perhaps the Saudis will stop being racist islam-o-nazi apes will be less willing to continue being filthy barbarians if we start dropping thermite plazma bombs on cities like Riyad.
Bombs cannot differentiate between evildoers and their prey.
Again, in the long run, for permanence, it would be more effective in defeating the illegitimacy of arabism and sharia law external to arabia, by pointing out that the religious edict is strictly meant for ishmael (arab descendants).Well, not perfectly....
I am thinking that cruise missles targeting those mosques where evil doing is being taught would probably get the best bang for the buck...with the least "collateral damage". The Saudis SHOULD have a lot of influence in the ME, but if they do, they are wasting it...
Radical Islamic law is only inforced in that one country? Oh, I didn't realize.
The saudis are bed partners in oil by providing a stabilized region of reliable flow.Ummmm a country that happens to be our valuable ally in the war on terrorism according to the guy who tries to repeatedly justify the war. It's a losing argument to use the Saudi.
"Wolves Dressed As Sheep"
The saudis are the originators of arabism which they vagrantly export (wahhabism&salafism) as if it were meant for non-arabs.
"Wolves Dressed As Sheep"
The saudis are bed partners in oil by providing a stabilized region of reliable flow.
The saudis are the originators of arabism which they vagrantly export (wahhabism&salafism) as if it were meant for non-arabs.
Yes, it finances the spread of fundamentalist indoctrination and islamic conversion worldwide.While supporting terrorist activities on a global scale.
The traditions of judaism from moses were passed to the descendants of isaac (jews).What is Arabism? It's not listed on the internet. There is Pan-Arabism and Arab nationalism but no Arabism.
Rise of empire (632–750)
Muhammad began preaching Islam at Mecca before migrating to Medina, from where he united the tribes of Arabia into a singular Arab Muslim religious polity.
For the Umayyad aristocracy, Islam was viewed as a religion for Arabs only;[66] the economy of the Umayyad empire was based on the assumption that a majority of non-Muslims (Dhimmis) would pay taxes to the minority of Muslim Arabs. A non-Arab who wanted to convert to Islam was supposed to first become a client of an Arab tribe. Even after conversion, these new Muslims (mawali) did not achieve social and economic equality with the Arabs. The descendants of Muhammad's uncle Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib rallied discontented mawali, poor Arabs, and some Shi'a against the Umayyads and overthrew them with the help of their propagandist and general Abu Muslim, inaugurating the Abbasid dynasty in 750.
Ishmael (Hebrew: יִשְׁמָעֵאל, Standard Yišmaʿel Tiberian Yišmāʿêl; Arabic: إسماعيل, Ismā'īl) was Abraham's eldest son, born by his wife's handmaiden Hagar. Though born of Hagar, according to Mesopotamian law, Ishmael was credited as Sarah's son (Gn. 16:2)[1]
Both Jewish and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael as the ancestor of Arab people.
Judaism has generally viewed Ishmael as the son of Abraham.[1] Jews and Christians (the House of Israel) maintain that Isaac, Abraham's son by Sarah the free woman and the father of all Israel, rather than Ishmael was the true heir. This is supported in Genesis chapter 21 "in Isaac shall the seed be called".
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Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Standard Yiẓḥaq Tiberian Yiṣḥāq ; Arabic: إسحٰق, ʾIsḥāq ; "he will laugh") is the son of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of Jacob and Esau as described in the Hebrew Bible. His story is told in the Book of Genesis. Isaac was the longest-lived of the patriarchs, and the only biblical patriarch whose name was not changed. Isaac was the only patriarch who did not leave Canaan, although he once tried to leave and God told him not to do so.
"Name Calling"
Yes, it finances the spread of fundamentalist indoctrination and islamic conversion worldwide.
The traditions of judaism from moses were passed to the descendants of isaac (jews).
The traditions of arabism from muhammad were given to the descendants of ishmael (arabs), where the "last prophet" implies a doctrine for the only other paternal lineage of abraham.
The term islam is a subversion against ethos, it fails to indicate that as judaism is for jews and judea (israel), arabism is for arabs and arabia (sic).
The term islam (islamic) abuses universality and in its place the term arabism (arabaic) is added.
The Arabaic Republic of ______ .
Arabism (islam) is not for non-arabs.
Arabism (islam) is arab cultural hegemony.
*{O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most pious of you. Indeed God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.}*
Bombs cannot differentiate between evildoers and their prey.
Exactly, and as near to the source of origin as possible indicates the intent of arabism for the lineage of ishmael.Your source tells of the origins of Arabs and what Mohammed did when Islam first started.
He, as in the personified protectorate for the patriarchal genetic lineage of abrahamic descendants?However it ignores Koranic text Surah 49, verse 13:
For Muslims God does not see Arabs and non-Arabs. He sees those who were pious in their lifetimes and those who were not so pious in their lifetimes.*{O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most pious of you. Indeed God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.}*
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