Thursday, December 29. 2005

79 Lashes for Gangrenous Maid Who Spoke Against Saudi Torturer

Here is a shocking illustration of yesterday's must-read post The Unreported Legal Abuse of Non-Muslims in Islam (from The Arab News-Saudi Arabia, via the excellent Lost Budgie Blog).
A Riyadh judge sentenced an Indonesian maid, who accused her sponsor and his wife of torturing her, to 79 lashes yesterday....In March, Miyati was brought to a hospital in Riyadh by her sponsor in a critical condition suffering from gangrene to her fingers, toes and a part of her right foot. Doctors had to remove some of her fingers and toes....A judge later sentenced the sponsor?s wife, who admitted to beating Miyati, to 35 lashes. The husband was found innocent due to lack of evidence against him.
There was a "lack of evidence" against the husband despite the pictures, the medical evidence and the wife's confession. The (apparently Muslim) maid's testimony was essentially discarded because it is accorded half of the weight of that of a Muslim man.

Despite the distinction unanimously claimed by the mainstream media between "radicals" and the "moderate majority," there is no significant Muslim opinion that disagrees with either the desirability of implementing Muslim law or the half-valuation of testimony under it. There is almost no source other than IRIS explaining the systemic incentive to exploit the "other" under Islam.

See also:

Saudi Police Arrest Thousands of... Runaway Maids

Saudis to Gouge Out More Eyes
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Persecution of non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia
I can't say I was surprised by this news. It's certainly possible, and this report (via IRIS Blog) confirms, that the Saudis are quite capable of discriminating against and persecuting non-Muslim foreign workers on Saudi turf, and have.
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king of saudi arabia, is a disgrace, the saudi arabian, nation is a disgrace, the saudi nation should be ousted, they caused the war in sudan by ionmposing sharia law there, by aid, and caused the war in algeria by finding the terrorist party before the election, trhey created bin laden, they have the lowest life expectancy per wealth, for any land withput the apartheid cretaed HIV, on earth, the kibng of beligium was a paedophile, and in the 1830s, and another killed 27million congolese, ugandans, and congolese
fsdfsdfsdfsdfdsfsd | 01.13.06 - 2:04 pm | # they always say that they are happy when 1000s of people die in the hajz, saying, well they would have loved it that way, well why dont they steamrooller over the saudi king, if its so lovely being squashed to death , they are the corrupt puppets iodf duncwes like the thatcher's who get millions off them,
#1 DFGDFGDFGDF on 2006-01-13 21:17 (Reply)

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