Comments on: Saudi king pardons gang-rape victim?

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:45:09 +0000

What a gracious dictator Abdullah is for pardoning this woman for being gang-raped. I’m sure this will teach her never to do THAT again. Who can deny this is Saudi justice at its finest? It reminds me of that other Great Moment In Saudi Justice when the King pardoned the Westerners for bombing themselves way back before the Saudis wanted to admit they had an Al Qaeda problem.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:12:52 +0000

“… she’s been spared not as a matter of right or of justice, but of paternal mercy.”

I think the latter is inaccurate, AP. It wasn’t paternal mercy but a studious avoiding of further foreign PR misery and, thus, deciding the frying pan is better than the fire.

By: moonsbreath

moonsbreath — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:10:54 +0000

I’m glad this happened, even though Abdullah is full of it.

The article said she wanted to get a picture of herself back? I guess this is when a burque is not so bad to be wearing.

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By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:52:16 +0000

We let’s just hope she learns her lesson.

maybe next time she’ll give some thought before she runs out and gets raped again.

If they keep letting women off, they will start going out and getting raped willy nilly.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:43:53 +0000

I can’t wait to hear what the ignorant pundits on The View will have to say on this.

Didn’t she know the rules of her own culture? She never should have sat in a car with a man she wasn’t related to in the first place! Look what an awkward position she has put the King in.

tsk tsk!!

By: thejackal

thejackal — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:32:46 +0000

Praise to Allah! Saudi Arabia is once again a safe place for people to get gang-raped. Long Live the King!!

You slay me!

By: morganfrost

morganfrost — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:26:23 +0000

Praise to Allah! Saudi Arabia is once again a safe place for people to get gang-raped. Long Live the King!!

By: factoid

factoid — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:22:56 +0000

This, along with Teddybeargate, shows that international outrage can work in these medieval cases. I wonder if the Bush Administration quietly pulled some strings in Riyadh as well.

By: Talon

Talon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:46 +0000

She’ll be dead in a week.

This wasn’t a “judgement of innocence”, it was a pardon. Technically she is still “guilty”.

Somewhere, some one feels “insulted”, “enraged” and “duty bound” to restore the honor of her family.

tick,tick,tick,tick……………..

By: desertdweller

desertdweller — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:01:27 +0000

And the effort to close the information “leak” that spread the news of this ludicrous case is sure to follow…