I honestly feel sick to my stomach after reading this. What the fuck is wrong with people. I feel so bad for that little girl.
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Saudi preacher gets fine and short jail term for raping and killing daughter
Public anger has gripped Saudi Arabia after a prominent preacher who raped and beat to death his 5-year-old daughter was sentenced to a few months in jail and a $50,000 fine – known as 'blood money' – to compensate the victim's relatives.
According to Islamic law, the 'blood money' can be paid in lieu of the death penalty. The preacher's fine was reportedly half the usual amount because the victim was a girl.
Saudi preacher Fayhan Ghamdi, a frequent guest on Muslim TV networks, confessed to using cables and a cane to inflict the injuries, AFP reported, quoting activists from the group ‘Women to Drive.’
Ghamdi reportedly doubted that his daughter, Lama Ghamdi, was a virgin, and forced her to undergo a medical inspection.
In December 2011, Lama was admitted to hospital with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, and extensive bruising and burns, according to the activist group. Hospital worker Randa Kaleeb said that the girl's back was broken, and that she had been raped "everywhere."
The hospital told the victim's mother that her child's “rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed,” AFP reported on Saturday.
In October 2012, the girl died from her injuries. The following November, the father was arrested. The judge ruled that the "blood money and the time the defendant had served in prison since Lama's death suffices as punishment," activists reported.
The incident sparked public anger in Saudi Arabia, prompting an online Twitter campaign calling for more severe punishment for violence against women and children. The 'Women to Drive' campaign, launched by women's rights activist Manal Sharif, has demanded the creation of legislation that would criminalize violence against women and children.
The petition is circulating on Twitter under the hashtag 'Ana Lama' – "I am Lama" in Arabic.
The issue has gained widespread traction in Saudi Arabia, and authorities promised to set up a 24-hour hotline that will take calls regarding child abuse.
http://rt.com/news/saudi-preacher-fine-rape-333/
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I honestly feel sick to my stomach after reading this. What the fuck is wrong with people. I feel so bad for that little girl.
An eye for an eye...
Sickening.
Sadly, this and abuse like this is common in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi state is the world's most extreme and brutal theocracy (even more so than Iran) yet it is feted by most of the world's governments with a level of support and respect that no other state in the Middle East (except Israel) gets.
How anyone could do what's described in that article to another person is beyond me, let alone to one's own daughter.
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It somehow amazes me how this guy hasn't been lynched yet. A petition? Get. The. Fuck. Out.
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Has this made the rounds in the mainstream western media at all?
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And the reason they're worse than Iran is that Iran is a Sh'ia theocracy, while Saudi Arabia (and formerly Afghanistan under the Taliban) is a Sunni Wahhabist regime. Shi'a Islam is generally much more moderate than the Sunni branch, even at its worst. E.g., in terms of culture, the Ayatollahs have generally preserved and protected Iran's pre-Islamic heritage, whereas Saudi Arabia destroyed (and continues to destroy) even ancient Islamic pilgrimage sites based on its Wahhabi doctrine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruc...heritage_sites
But this man's sentence is absolutely monstrous, even by Saudi standards. I hope someone steps in and gives him his just desserts.
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I thought he was making a back-handed reference to a Tikkun article that was posted in the religion section of OI.
Thus I found it a bit amusing (since I read the article as well and thought it a bit weak/wrong despite that I also find the some or all of the "main proponents" of "New Atheism" to be a bit of pompous assholes).
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Forilla. You don't need a petition, you need rope and a tree.
A few months in jail?
Oh I see, he didn't marry her first. Is that it?
God damn people are sick
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We want to wage nuclear war on the nuclear family.
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