A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN.
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.
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.
So why hasn't anyone in the USofA spoken out to assist this woman? Where is the ACLU when an Egyptian Woman needs them? Where is the outcry from the National Organization for Women? Where is Michael Moore and his cameras?
Progressive Democrats are WUSSIES!!!! They complain where it's safe to do so. But they're too timid to speak up and speak out when there is violence against women in another Country. Michael Moore can run to Cuba to make a video on health care but is too 'fraidy-cat to travel to Egypt to video the Egyptian (un)Justice system.
Egypt is supposed to be a friend of the USofA??? Since when do "friends" give a rape victim 90 lashes? And since when do "friends" react against a lawyer and client who win appeal and change the 90 to 200 lashes and disbar the lawyer because he won a judgment against the original court? If these are friends, no wonder the prestige of the USofA is slipping.
Egypt is a Wahabist Islamic State.
Many Westerners, as well as so-called moderate Muslims, consider Wahhabism a twisted, if not perverted, version of Islam. The truth is that Wahabism is not an alien religion, neither is it a type of ‘imported beer’ from a distant planet; rather, IT IS ISLAM itself. Moderate Muslims have a utopian idea of a perfect Islamic country that does not exist and never can be pursued based on Islamic teachings. As a result, they conveniently reject Saudi style Islam as extreme and far from their dream of an artificial Islamic society. The reality is that Saudi Arabia practices the best form of Islam and it is the role model of an ideal Islamic country.
But that's not all that Wahabism is. It's also the "life-style" of the Terrorists, as in "War on Terror" Terrorists.
Osama bin Laden, Talibaan Chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, Chief Suspect in Daniel Pearl’s murder, Omar Saeed are all followers of Mohammed Abdul Al Wahab, the eighteenth century fundamentalist Mullah (cleric) in present day Saudi Arabia. His view was, that since the time of Prophet Mohammed the followers of the faith have strayed away from his teachings, hence they have to be refocused back to what Prophet Mohammed said in Qoran. Influence of Wahab’s word, spread in Saudi Arabia during his lifetime. But the Ottomans, rulers of Arabia at that time, who originally are Central Asian Turks and Sunnis, did not encourage this firebrand Mullah. They set out to completely smash his small band of followers, locally called Wahabis. Ottomans did not succeed very well; hence Wahabi’s influence remained strong with Mullahs who control the Muslim holy sites and Mosques in and around Arabia. Wahabis have spent last 300 years waiting for an opportune time to gain political influence.
That time came during WWI when Britain needed support in Arabia to fight against the Ottomans. And the cancer of Wahabist Islam took root and flourished in Arabia.
Wahabis are here to stay. Only Arabian government can control them. West can only help to reshape their education and prevent monies transferred to other countries to galvanize masses there. To end Muslim terrorism, the West has to influence Saudi policy. Only the latter can control the Wahabi influence in the Kingdom and outside it.
“The Saudi public school system totals 25,000 schools, educating about 5 million students. In addition, Saudi Arabia runs academies in 19 world capitals, including one outside Washington in Fairfax County, that use some of these same religious texts.”
This is what the texts say:
FIRST GRADE
”Every religion other than Islam is false."
"Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words (Islam, hellfire):
Every religion other than ______________ is false. Whoever dies outside of Islam enters ____________."FOURTH GRADE
"True belief means. . . that you hate the polytheists and infidels but do not treat them unjustly."FIFTH GRADE
"Whoever obeys the Prophet and accepts the oneness of God cannot maintain a loyal friendship with those who oppose God and His Prophet, even if they are his closest relatives."
"It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a loyal friend to someone who does not believe in God and His Prophet, or someone who fights the religion of Islam."SIXTH GRADE
"Just as Muslims were successful in the past when they came together in a sincere endeavor to evict the Christian crusaders from Palestine, so will the Arabs and Muslims emerge victorious, God willing, against the Jews and their allies if they stand together and fight a true jihad for God, for this is within God's power."EIGHTH GRADE
"As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."
Activity: The student writes a composition on the danger of imitating the infidels."NINTH GRADE
It is part of God's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the hour [of judgment]."TENTH GRADE,
"Blood money for a free infidel. [Its quantity] is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, whether or not he is 'of the book' or not 'of the book' (such as a pagan, Zoroastrian, etc.)”.
”Blood money for a woman: Half of the blood money for a man, in accordance with his religion. The blood money for a Muslim woman is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, and the blood money for an infidel woman is half of the blood money for a male infidel."ELEVENTH GRADE
"The greeting 'Peace be upon you' is specifically for believers. It cannot be said to others."
"If one comes to a place where there is a mixture of Muslims and infidels, one should offer a greeting intended for the Muslims."
"Do not yield to them [Christians and Jews] on a narrow road out of honor and respect."TWELFTH GRADE
"Jihad in the path of God -- which consists of battling against unbelief, oppression, injustice, and those who perpetrate it -- is the summit of Islam. This religion arose through jihad and through jihad was its banner raised high. It is one of the noblest acts, which brings one closer to God, and one of the most magnificent acts of obedience to God.". . . this is real Islam - full of hatred, intolerance and cruelty. All the Saudi government is doing is protecting Islam and its values. In Islam, the Quran and Sunnah (story of Mohammed’s life) are the foundations of knowledge and education. There is no other book in the world that may challenge the Quran; if it does, the author’s neck will embrace the sword. The Quran has repeatedly insulted the rest of humanity, and called for unconditional subjugation of non-Muslims and ways to kill them in the event of disobedience. Sunnah guides Muslims how to live their lives and supports the Quranic verses that prescribe killing and overpowering non-Muslims.
Evidently, those Wahabists are following and implementing the rules of the Quran and Sunnah. It would be foolish to challenge their effort and beat about the bush to find a peaceful Islam unless the root of the problem, the Quran, is banned.
There is an Islamic Community in North Georgia. Prior to 09/09/2001 their gates were never locked. The first time they were locked was on 09/09/2001. Coincidence? I think NOT.
