Quote From: edmicequeenI have been following this story closely as years ago I lost a good friend the same way .
Basically I think this article I will quote from the local paper here says it all .
Mideast Saudis defend gang rape verdict
Saudi Arabia defended yesterday a courts decison to sentence a woman who was gang raped to 200 lashes of the whip after united states described the verdict as astounding .
The 19 year old Siite woman and an unrelated man companion was abducted and raped by seven men in 2006. Last week the womans sentence was raised to 200 lashes and six months in prison for being alone with an unrelated man.
Obviously the government in those countrys does not protect woman the way they are protected in countries such as the states and canada .
There beliefs are different and there laws are extremely different .
I do understand internet love but I think one has to weigh in cultural differences aswell.
Looking forward to Mondays show .
The Arab world is backwoods. I’m an Australian Lebanese Muslim.
This judgment is ludicrous. However to I must defend how they think. I was
raised a Muslim and every Muslim girl to raised pretty much not to trust men. I
wasn’t allowed to have boys as friends, I did anyway. All Muslim Arab countries
still practice arrange marriages. So they only way for a girl to be seen with a
boy in public is if they are engage to be married. There is no such thing as
courtship, if a boy like you, his get permission from your parent to marry you
and then you get to know each other. This is how its always been in Arab countries,
and that how their brought up. In some Indian religion the bride does not see
her husband until the day of the wedding. These are customs and tradition, they
know no better so we shouldn’t judge. That said this is why the girl got
punished, I don’t Condon the punishment its stupid. From what you said she was
out with a male who wasn’t related to her. This is a big no no in Muslim
culture, I think the rape is punishment to last a life time, then the stupid government
goes add fuel to her already burning emotional state by publicly punishing her
for something someone else did to her is absurd. They only got 10 month to a
year for raping her, how hypocritical, there animals, there not even animals. In
Australia
a Lebanese youth was jailed to 66 years for gang rape.
This is why I tell people its not the boys who are bad its
their parents for raising them to think they are superior to women. What
message do those sentences send out to young Muslim youth, only that the girl
gets what she deserves and the boy it’s never the boys fault. Its one thing to
have tradition and customs it’s another to punish the wrong person. Thank god
my mother had 6 girls and 3 boys, and they were taught to respect women. My
brother has been married to his wife for nearly 4 years and has never raised a
hand to his wife.
Dr. Phil follows up with a family terrified for the safety of their loved one, Katherine, a young woman who flew to the Middle East to be with Abdullah, whom she met online. When she last spoke with Dr. Phil, Katherine promised that she would return to the United States within two days, but immediately after the show, she changed her mind. Find out what happened during two failed attempts to get Katherine home, and what finally got her on a plane. Then, Katherine’s mother, Shawn, and sister, Mary, say they were overwhelmingly relieved to have her back safe, so why didn’t they greet her at the airport? Katherine joins her family onstage and offers her tearful apologies. After hearing how her actions have affected her family and Dr. Phil’s staff, will Katherine go back to Abdullah, or will she have a change of heart? Join the discussion.
