Comments on: Saudi foreign minister on gang-rape victim’s sentence: “These things happen”

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Saudi king pardons gang-rape victim?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Saudi king pardons gang-rape victim? — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:55:49 +0000

[...] court’s decision to impose 200 lashes on her as one of the occasional lamentable quirks of an independent judiciary, but it wasn’t quite true: Human Rights Watch told ABC weeks ago that a pardon from the king [...]

By: Spanish Pundit

Spanish Pundit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:01:06 +0000

Las feministas americanas y el Islam: los casos de…

Thanks to Vicki, I reach a magnificent article by Tammy Bruce:
There has been appropriate international outrage over the treatment of Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American feminists. Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the…

By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:20:34 +0000

Bush screws up on query about Saudi Arabia at pres…

Michelle Malkin has the details on president Bush’s latest press conference, in which he even flubbed a question about the blame-the-victim tactics used against a victim of gang rape in Saudi Arabia….

By: Mere Rhetoric

Mere Rhetoric — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:53:05 +0000

Hey Gals, Check This Out – Saudi Arabia Too Busy At Annapolis To Stop Their Wahhabist Judiciary From Lashing Gang Rape Victim 200 Times…

That hed’s totally unfair. There’s absolutely no evidence that the monarchy would step in to stop this outrage even if they weren’t busy trying to help the State Department screw Israel out of the Golan. After all, the 19……

By: Right Angles » Blog Archive » Barbarians, Part Deux

Right Angles » Blog Archive » Barbarians, Part Deux — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:25:42 +0000

[...] Where was the outrage when Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told reporters that “these things happen” in response to a question about the 200 lashes given to the gang rape victim? Where are [...]

By: Larraby

Larraby — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:55 +0000

The Saudi Arabian royal family learned as far back as the Roosevel administration that the State Department will genuflect to the Saudis regardless of Saudi behavior. The Saudis learned that the issue of human rights does not apply to Saudi Arabia. Jimmy Carter, who was forever lecturing the rest of the world about human rights never uttered one word about Saudi violations of human rights. And where are all the members of the Washington press corps today? The Washinton press corps, including representatives of the New York Times, were at the Saudi embassy when the Saudis discovered, horror of horror, that there were Israeli reporters there for the press briefing. The Israelis were forcibly removed from the press briefing while the entire Washington press corps remained silent. Not one reporter even protested. One member of the Washington press corps said that he would ask the questions that the Israeli reporters would have asked. Then this reporter demanded to be congratulated for his “courage”.

By: rayvet

rayvet — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:52:51 +0000

And this group is supposed to be representative of moderate muslims, a creature that as far as I am concerned is non-existent. When is the world going to wake up and admit that these middle eastern muslims are a lost cause, a society that has refused or been unable to evolve and therefore will not be able to survive as we move into the future. Anyone that thinks the practitioners of this cult can live in modern day civilizations is a denyer.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:32:53 +0000

The woman’s ex-”friend” conveniently disappeared from the story at a point implicating him for arranging the entire incident.

What a sad story, the woman fell for the forbidden, intrigue, looking for a friend. Would her situation be the same or similar had she refused to cooperate with her ex-”friend” and simply told her husband the situation when being blackmailed? Would he abuse her for having internet dialogue prior to their own personal relationship? Would her husband himself have cast her to the wolves?

What a misfortune, being born female in a patriarchal society.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:21:45 +0000

That the Saudi King allows this tortured woman further abuse proves what he is and is not. May he suffer her experience this day.

By: thejackal

thejackal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:15:15 +0000

So then you can translate “whoopsie-daisy” into Arabic.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:01:08 +0000

It’s time for the Colter doctrine:
Invade their countries
Kill their leaders
Convert them to Christianity

…problem solved

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:20:29 +0000

“These things happen”

Well I feel better. We can all go to bed now.

How third-world backward can you get? With all of their wealth and resources, this is the best they have? It’s insane. Saudi Arabia should be a model of modernity by now. How much money and resources has the U.S., alone, pumped in to that country? Yet here we are – in 2007 – bewildered at how backward these people really are. How they live in modern times through the eyes of centuries past? I’ll never understand it.

By: JayHaw Phrenzie

JayHaw Phrenzie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:07:04 +0000

I have a dream that sometine in my lifetime an invention will be made that renders oil worthless.

Once that happens, they can eat their sand and drink their oil.

Dare to dream.

By: Patrick S

Patrick S — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:31:48 +0000

Well then, it sounds like the answer is to have every member of the independent courts who render these messed up decisions raped, then whipped for being raped. Fair is fair.

By: bloggless

bloggless — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:05:11 +0000

“These things” should happen to him. Then we would see them stop happening.

By: dawgyear

dawgyear — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:23:10 +0000

This is just incredibly stupid, yet, we have people in this country who support CAIR and other Islamic organizations that wish to institute sharia law in this country. By the way, did I read the article correctly that the woman’s male companion was also raped by these seven men? OUCH!

By: William Amos

William Amos — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:20:36 +0000

The Sauds get their legitimacy by allowing the courts to remain in power.

If they had been stamped on years ago there would have been no Bin Laden

Seriously Mecca is the main source of Saudi Arabia’s wealth. Dont think its oil. Billions of people make thier pilgrimages to Mecca and it floods millions into the Saudi economy

If the House of Saud tried to change that then they’d lose that influx of money

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:15:39 +0000

Faisal said the judgment was being used to vilify the Saudi government even though it was not responsible because the courts are independent.

What a lier.

Oh yah that’s right, Muslims can lie to infidels.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:14:06 +0000

What a bunch of inbreds.

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:13:53 +0000

F##k the Saudis, they make me sick.

They are just Taliban with a lot more money and oil.

That’s about it.

That and we have sold our collective soul to them.