I'm sorry for everything i am about to say.
I'm sorry for hurting the feelings of those good Arabic/Muslim people who who respect life, respect fairness, justice and humanity for others regardless of gender, race or religion....
But this turns my stomach in ways i can't stand:
Link here: Saudi Gazette
Girl gets a year in jail, 100 lashes for being gang-raped
JEDDAH – A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long.
The girl claimed that she became pregnant soon after and went to King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces in an attempt to carry out an abortion. She was eight weeks’ pregnant then, the hospital confirmed.
According to the ruling, the woman will be sent to a jail outside Jeddah to spend her time and will be lashed after delivery of her baby who will take the mother’s last name. – Okaz/SG
I'm sorry to be so opinionated here, but no modern society regardless of religion or cultural background should tolerate the dehuminization of women in such a way. I think most of us would agree with that.
What we have here is a backwards culture that is generations behind behind where humanity has come. We are NOT talking about a culture that doesn't have modern technology, modern educational institutions, global connectedness and exposure, who's religious teachings talk about righteous behavior. These aren't "savages" living in some remote part of the world where there is not electricity.
What we have here is a culture that has ingrained belief that women are only a bit above the level of farm animals-- existing purely for the purpose of serving as servants to men for sexual needs, child-bearing, child-rearing, and household chores.
But even worse than that, a young woman who is gang-raped is punished for being a victim....
She'll be ostracized for life, will never marry, will be shunned by her family and will likely go into imposed exile, living out a miserable existence as an "untouchable" until the day she dies....
But the rapists...... they don't get their dicks cut off for the offense...
They may get some lashes. But they'll move on and never be stigmatized, never truly experience any lasting punishment other than a wag of the finger.... a slap of the wrist.
Pardon me, but i find it impossible to believe that cultures such as these will evolve out of this barbarism on it's own. No.
To combat this requires Shame and Humiliation
These societies need to be shamed and humiliated for their barbaric sense of "justice" for women. The good Muslim people need to stand up against this. They have more power to change their societies than they realize. But they've also been threatened and beaten into submission. The internal subjugation of Muslims against Muslim women is worse than any subjugation that the Muslim world accuses Isreal of committing against Palestinians.
A friend of mine from the Middle-East had this to say:
"Any culture that mistreats their women will destroy the goodness and gentleness that mothers teach their children. The "softness and lovingness" that mothers can teach their daughters and instill in their sons are beaten into submission. All that is left is the forcefulness, power, anger of men that runs their society. These humiliated and subjugated women are left with hopelessness, humiliation, and anger. And it is this that they feed to their children who they raise. So starts another generation of subugation, anger, and hopelessness"
This makes sense to me....
Does it make sense to you?
UPDATE#1:
Please read my diary in it's entirety before accusing me of "racism", "neo-conism", "culturalism", "trollism" or anything else you can think of to throw at me.
Because if aren't discussing the unjust beating of a rape victim for being raped, then you're not contributing to a constructive dialogue.
I am bringing this topic because the article bothered me greatly-- and i had the desire to say so to my DKOS community.
After all, if we can't admit there's a problem, then we can't start looking for the answers.