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Associated Press: court hands jail term, doubles lashes for woman victim of gang rape [LINK-ZUM]

A Saudi court sentenced a 19-year-old woman victim of gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes - more than double than in her initial sentence for being in the car of a man who was not her relative, a newspaper reported Thursday. [...] According to Arab News, the court informed the rape victim that her sentence was made harsher because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media." Three judges from the Qatif court had initially sentenced the woman to 90 lashes, convicting her of violating Saudi's rigid laws on segregation of the sexes. [...] Women are not allowed in public in the company of men other than their male relatives. Also, women in Saudi Arabia are often sentenced to flogging for adultery and other crimes. [...] The court also banned the woman's lawyer from defending her, confiscated his license to practice law and summoned him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.

[Article continues at link. What -ism is it in the West that is addressing atrocities like this? At present, it isn't feminism. Feminism in the West currently devotes a great deal of effort critiquing body image in the mass media. This is a topic well worth addressing, but it is utterly insignificant in the face of what is happening to women (and men, particularly homosexual men) in Muslim nations. The -ism in the West that is addressing atrocities like this is atheism. - Trevor Blake]

Labels: atheist, islam, sex, theocracy

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