Saudi Kidnap Rape victim faces 90 lashes

yoke

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=348792007




Its a good thing that this is a religion of peace, I would hate to see what it was if they get violent.

redsdisease

yoke wrote:

Its a good thing that this is a religion of peace, I would hate to see what it was if they get violent.

Characterizing the whole of the religion of Islam by the actions of one fundamentalist judge makes about as much sense as characterizing the entirety of Christianity by the actions of George W. Bush.

yoke

redsdisease wrote:

Characterizing the whole of the religion of Islam by the actions of one fundamentalist judge makes about as much sense as characterizing the entirety of Christianity by the actions of George W. Bush.

you do know that Saudi Arabi is ruled by strict Sharia or Islamic Law.

redsdisease

yoke wrote:

you do know that Saudi Arabi is ruled by strict Sharia or Islamic Law.

And George W. Bush claims that he is ruled by God, what's your point?

MrBrian

It's just a bunch of backward people. backward government. I'm happy the US does not support them (Saudi Arabia) in anyway.

yoke

I wish the US didn't support them, but we do. They have a lot of oil that we need.

yoke

redsdisease wrote:

And George W. Bush claims that he is ruled by God, what's your point?

GW doesn't behead people in the town square in the name of Jesus.

jlew24asu

redsdisease wrote:

And George W. Bush claims that he is ruled by God, what's your point?

maybe you should understand the difference between Sharia Law and Christianity before you make such a stupid comment

Abookamongstthemany

yoke wrote:

GW doesn't behead people in the town square in the name of Jesus.

Nah, but he electricuted mentally disabled people in Texas. Different pile of crap, same stink.

redsdisease

jlew24asu wrote:

maybe you should understand the difference between Sharia Law and Christianity before you make such a stupid comment

I never, ever, claimed that there was any similarity between Sharia law and Christianity. The only correlation I made was that characterizing an entire religion by one judge's interpretation of the Sharia law, which is by no means uniform and is, in fact, open to interpretation, is just as stupid as characterizing the entire religion of Christianity as having the same views as George Bush.

MrBrian

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

Nah, but he electricuted mentally disabled people in Texas. Different pile of crap, same stink.

Yeah but that killing is done behind closed doors right? the stink is contained. It's contained!

keeponrockin

yoke wrote:

I wish the US didn't support them, but we do. They have a lot of oil that we need.

By supporting them, it's supporting their actions IMO.

redsdisease

keeponrockin wrote:

By supporting them, it's supporting their actions IMO.

Word.

PJ_Saluki

MrBrian wrote:

Yeah but that killing is done behind closed doors right? the stink is contained. It's contained!

And it usually follows a brutal murder by that mentally challenged person. Not saying it's right -- I don't like the death penalty -- but it's not the same as flogging a woman because she had the nerve to get raped.

dg1979us

PJ_Saluki wrote:

And it usually follows a brutal murder by that mentally challenged person. Not saying it's right -- I don't like the death penalty -- but it's not the same as flogging a woman because she had the nerve to get raped.

Exactly. Im not high on the death penalty by any means, but at least it is, or supposed to be administered to the criminal, not the victim.

Collin

It's an awful story but you had to turn it into an anti-islam thread, congratulations! I hope you feel good about using this horrible case in your hate campaign against Islam!

Kudos to you!

dg1979us

Collin wrote:

It's an awful story but you had to turn it into an anti-islam thread, congratulations! I hope you feel good about using this horrible case in your hate campaign against Islam!

Kudos to you!

How can this not be at least somewhat critical of Islam? This is done in a country ran by Sharia law. How can you possibly talk about this story, without having it in the context of Islam? If this were a case of a random Muslim doing something on his own accord, I would agree with you. This isnt. This is a terrible action called for under Islamic law. If you dont talk about it within a context of Islam, then you arent talking about the whole story. And no, that isnt condemning all Muslims, but it is most definately condemning Sharia law.

yosi1

This is disgusting.

Milestone

redsdisease wrote:

Characterizing the whole of the religion of Islam by the actions of one fundamentalist judge makes about as much sense as characterizing the entirety of Christianity by the actions of George W. Bush.

You making excuses for them is worse.

yosi1

dg1979us wrote:

How can this not be at least somewhat critical of Islam? This is done in a country ran by Sharia law. How can you possibly talk about this story, without having it in the context of Islam? If this were a case of a random Muslim doing something on his own accord, I would agree with you. This isnt. This is a terrible action called for under Islamic law. If you dont talk about it within a context of Islam, then you arent talking about the whole story. And no, that isnt condemning all Muslims, but it is most definately condemning Sharia law.

Or at least this interpretation of Sharia law should be condemned.

hippiemom

Collin wrote:

It's an awful story but you had to turn it into an anti-islam thread, congratulations! I hope you feel good about using this horrible case in your hate campaign against Islam!

Kudos to you!

This isn't one lone Muslim, or some tiny group of fanatics. It's a theocratic government of one of the largest countries in the Muslim world acting according to their interpretation of their sacred texts. I spent a long time googling this yesterday and was unable to find a single instance of a Muslim anywhere being critical of it. The story isn't even being covered by Al Jazeera. There's no getting around it, this does not speak well of their culture.