Cherry
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Sorry for the copy/paste article ...but I thought it best to document the source:
S. Arabia Man to Get 4,750 Lashes
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia –– A Saudi court has sentenced a man to six years in prison and 4,750 lashes for having sex with his wife's sister, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The woman involved in the case was sentenced to six months in jail and 65 lashes, the paper Al-Eqtisadiah reported, though the court found she had not consented to the relationship. She had also reported the affair to the police.
Having a relationship with one's in-law is considered a serious offense under the strict Islamic judicial code that Saudi Arabia follows.
The court, in the port city of Jiddah, ordered that the lashes be administered to the man at a rate of 95 at a time.
Lashes are often handed out by Saudi courts, although rarely in such large numbers.
The court also ruled he was not eligible for a pardon "because of the ugliness and seriousness of his crime."
© 2002 The Associated Press
Now, open for discussion.
What kind of justice is that? Several things about this article really bother me.
Primarily, why should a woman who reported it to the police, and was found by the court to be non-consenting, receive any type of punishment?
Similarly, the African woman who is sentenced to death by stoning because she became pregnant and is not married ... REGARDLESS of the fact that she was raped!
This sharia strict Islamic judicial code is mind-boggling unjust. Not only does it punish the victims, but in the same breath it condones and incites mass murder on innocent people.
Having sex with one's inlaws is considered an ugly and serious crime, yet the practice of adult men sodomizing little boys is acceptable (ask Cheyenne for that thread).
Wouldn't you think 4,750 lashes would leave a person without skin?
So many horrific inconsistencies.
Is all of Islam ruled by maniacal clerics throughout the Middle East?
It's so hard to understand why the muslim populace follows sharia, or let's the fanatics interpret law and order.
S. Arabia Man to Get 4,750 Lashes
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia –– A Saudi court has sentenced a man to six years in prison and 4,750 lashes for having sex with his wife's sister, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The woman involved in the case was sentenced to six months in jail and 65 lashes, the paper Al-Eqtisadiah reported, though the court found she had not consented to the relationship. She had also reported the affair to the police.
Having a relationship with one's in-law is considered a serious offense under the strict Islamic judicial code that Saudi Arabia follows.
The court, in the port city of Jiddah, ordered that the lashes be administered to the man at a rate of 95 at a time.
Lashes are often handed out by Saudi courts, although rarely in such large numbers.
The court also ruled he was not eligible for a pardon "because of the ugliness and seriousness of his crime."
© 2002 The Associated Press
Now, open for discussion.
What kind of justice is that? Several things about this article really bother me.
Primarily, why should a woman who reported it to the police, and was found by the court to be non-consenting, receive any type of punishment?
Similarly, the African woman who is sentenced to death by stoning because she became pregnant and is not married ... REGARDLESS of the fact that she was raped!
This sharia strict Islamic judicial code is mind-boggling unjust. Not only does it punish the victims, but in the same breath it condones and incites mass murder on innocent people.
Having sex with one's inlaws is considered an ugly and serious crime, yet the practice of adult men sodomizing little boys is acceptable (ask Cheyenne for that thread).
Wouldn't you think 4,750 lashes would leave a person without skin?
So many horrific inconsistencies.
Is all of Islam ruled by maniacal clerics throughout the Middle East?
It's so hard to understand why the muslim populace follows sharia, or let's the fanatics interpret law and order.
