saudi defends 200 lashes for gang-rape victim

[Mstislav]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018877.php
How could they not defend it? They're just applying Islamic law. "Saudi defends verdict against gang-rape victim," from Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2057524920071120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true (thanks to John):

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia defended on Tuesday a court's decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as "astonishing".
The 19-year-old Shi'ite woman from the town of Qatif in the Eastern Province and an unrelated male companion were abducted and raped by seven men in 2006.

Ruling according to Saudi Arabia's strict reading of Islamic law, a court had originally sentenced the woman to 90 lashes and the rapists to jail terms of between 10 months and five years. It blamed the woman for being alone with an unrelated man.

Last week the Supreme Judicial Council increased the sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison and ordered the rapists to serve between two and nine years in jail.

The ruling provoked rare criticism from the United States, which is trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to attend a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland next week.

A State Department spokesman told reporters on Monday that "most (people) would find this relatively astonishing that something like this happens".


Nothing astonishing about it at all. It's just Islamic law, but why would the State Department know or care about that?

[ftf]

Sharia doing what it does.

[newman]

Sarah please take note.

This is NOT an isolated case. It happens ALL the time. Pakistani zinna courts do this too. These courts are run by senior iSSlamic schollars. You can't say it's NOT iSSlam.

[Mstislav]

It happens all the time in islamic countries.