Thursday, November 22, 2007

In Saudi, we could rape a lady. Its her fault anyway!

A recent headline of Telegraph UK, to make a long story short, a Saudi woman was sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months prison for being a gang rape victim, the initial sentence was 90 lashes but was subsequently increased to 200 because the woman was found guilty of influencing the media - sympathy.

What a bunch of idiots, how could they do this? Isn’t it wrong morally and ethically to punish the victim?

According to the Arab News newspaper, the woman was gang-raped 14 times. Her
offence was in meeting a former boyfriend, whom she had asked to return pictures
he had of her because she was about to marry another man. The couple was sitting
in a car when a group of seven Sunni men kidnapped them and raped them both,
lawyers in the case told Arab News. The former boyfriend was also sentenced to
90 lashes for being with her in private. Even the victim's lawyer was
ordered to face disciplinary actions due to the fact that he spoke to the media
about the original sentence.

This is ridiculous, just imagine how absurd these people view the situation. The court blamed the lady for being alone with an unrelated man, but they should've seen it in a more humane view and considered the thought that it still wasn't her fault for being gang raped 14 times!

The Islamic Sharia law is not in tune with modern society, these religious laws does not comply with today’s major ethic modern society; we’re heading towards a global village, a multi cultural world. Coming from an Islamic country - Malaysia with a religious composition of 60% Muslims and 40% others, and an ethic composition of 50% Malays, 25% Chinese, 8% Indians and the rest, does not use the religious rules of the Sharia. Unlike Saudi Arabia, they consider the possibility that a muslim could be involved in a legal case say a divorce, marriage, or khalwat, with a non-muslim. If only the Saudi's perceive it the way the Malaysian government did, then these cases could've been avoided.

The Saudi Government has been criticized numerous times already by several countries for apparent reasons.

Religion is a personal thing. It should not be correlated with politics.

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