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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/09/saudi.arabia.lashes/index.html
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.
Uthgar the Brazen
09 Mar 2009, 05:47 PM
In a sign of the great cultural divide between the United States and Saudi Arabia, Uthgar the Brazen was overheard to have exclaimed, "Jesus H. Christ!"
Ray Moscow
09 Mar 2009, 05:49 PM
First in with "religion of peace".
First in with "religion of peace".
And as the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said the other day,
We should know that Shariah law has not brought injustice to women
Mung Dynasty
10 Mar 2009, 01:51 AM
Yes this is a totally disgusting case, typical of the mutawa. The good news is that a lot of Saudis are apparently disgusted with it too and there has been a bit of an uproar about it. Hopefully she'll be let off.
See the BBC's take on Sharia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/sharia_1.shtml
Many people, including Muslims, misunderstand Sharia. It's often associated with the amputation of limbs, death by stoning, lashes and other medieval punishments. Because of this, it is sometimes thought of as draconian. Some people in the West view Sharia as archaic and unfair social ideas that are imposed upon people who live in Sharia-controlled countires.
Many Muslims, however, hold a different view. In the Islamic tradition Sharia is seen as something that nurtures humanity. They see the Sharia not in the light of something primitive but as something divinely revealed. In a society where social problems are endemic, Sharia frees humanity to realise its individual potential.
As my husband said in response to this:
Some in the West associate the Nazis with the Holocaust but others hold a different view. So that's all right then.
Just to cheer people up, here are some pix of the One Law for All march last weekend in London:
http://www.rowzane.com/0000-2009/e-m03/8-landan.htm
Marches and other events were also held in a number of other countries.
Mung Dynasty
10 Mar 2009, 11:48 AM
The Beeb are sounding pretty fucking retarded these days. You can bet your arse that the clown who wrote that article has never had to live under sharia. It is associated with amputation of limbs, death by stoning, lashes and other medieval punishments because it's a pre-medieval system FFS. Sheesh.
Pendaric
10 Mar 2009, 12:04 PM
Are you ex-Muslim yourself Mung?
Mung Dynasty
10 Mar 2009, 12:09 PM
No. Just got hooked up with some of them via a different site (meaning before the CEMB one).
I'm a friend IRL of quite a lot of ex-Muslims as well as a few who still claim to be some sort of Muslim, but seem to me to be cultural Muslims.
Ray Moscow
10 Mar 2009, 12:58 PM
I work with a few Turks, who are generally my kind o' Muslims (beer-drinking ones who believe religion is a private matter).
PeruvianSkies
10 Mar 2009, 01:21 PM
I'm an ex-muslim, came here from CEMB.
That punishment was disgusting! She is an old lady ffs!
It's a double whammy. The punishment is disgusting, but so is making what she is accused of a crime.
PeruvianSkies
10 Mar 2009, 02:42 PM
It's a double whammy. The punishment is disgusting, but so is making what she is accused of a crime.
Oh but we all now talking to unrelated people will undoubtedly lead to us fall in love with them and end up shagging them! I always wondered why I had sex with every unrelated man I met, thanks to Islam I know now why :notworthy: Oh wait...
PostMortem
10 Mar 2009, 03:53 PM
I always wondered why I had sex with every unrelated man I met, thanks to Islam I know now why :notworthy:
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/smilies/woohoo1.gifHi my name's PostMortem!!!
:D
Talking of unrelated men, I wonder how much incest goes on under the umbrella of islam.
Ray Moscow
10 Mar 2009, 04:05 PM
Talking of unrelated men, I wonder how much incest goes on under the umbrella of islam.
Well, if you lock up women such that the only females that young men can access are close relatives: I'd say, a lot.
I've heard that the usual fate of a pregnant girl is an insane asylum.
What a nice religion and culture!
I may be facing up against them tomorrow at the UN, where I hope to be attacking child marriage. It may not happen, however, because the bastards are always trying to marginalise the NGOs and they are putting heavy restrictions tomorrow on how many can take part.
The awful thing is that so often the NGOs are the only real opposition. See this: http://www.iheu.org/unhr2005
Warning: it goes on for pages and pages.
Mung Dynasty
10 Mar 2009, 09:21 PM
Is this at the UNHRC again? It's bollocks how that is being hamstrung to stop it doing anything for human rights.
Is this at the UNHRC again? It's bollocks how that is being hamstrung to stop it doing anything for human rights.
Where else?
Latest: I'm definitely not going. No chance of speaking.
Mung Dynasty
10 Mar 2009, 09:56 PM
Bugger.
We used to have IHEU's RSS feed hooked up to our front page but I think they changed it to registered members only because we lost it. Know anything about that?
Bugger.
We used to have IHEU's RSS feed hooked up to our front page but I think they changed it to registered members only because we lost it. Know anything about that?
Sorry. I don't know anything about the running of the website and that sort of thing. I did edit IH News for a while, but that's print.
Mung, you can get it directly from the UNHCR website. Try this:
http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/index.asp
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