Rapist goes scot free, victim jailed and deported - Saudi Arabia

[varun]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006/04/24/story_24-4-2006_pg7_11

Monday, April 24, 2006

Trafficked from Pakistan, raped and jailed in Saudi Arabia

KARACHI: Sixteen-year-old Isma Mahmood was deported to Pakistan last month after serving six months in shackles and handcuffs in a prison in Saudi Arabia. Her crime: being raped by a Saudi man...

...“He first kidnapped me, dragged me into his car,” Isma said. “At first he asked me to sleep with him and offered good money. When I refused and tried to resist, he warned me of dire consequences and raped me in the car.” The unnamed man warned her she would be imprisoned if she went to the police, and said that the Saudi sponsor who brought her parents to the country through a Pakistani agent would have them all expelled. The sponsor too threatened Isma and Muna, she said, asking that the sponsor’s name not be revealed to spare her family any additional grief. “I and my sister went to the police expecting justice, but after a few hours of filing the report the police changed it,” Isma said. Under pressure from the Saudi sponsor, Isma’s parents asked her to withdraw her report. “My sister Muna tried to help me out but was also arrested and put in prison only because she spoke for me,” she said...

[Ecumenist]

1. Fucking figures....

This is NOT ISLAMIC. Please don't take this to be what Islam teaches. This is a sick and screwed up backwards, misogynistic mind set that is cultural for some Saudis but by no means all.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. You dont have election in Saudi

You have a ruler protect by American Mercenary
They dont trust their own people to guard them
Do I need to say more.

Yes they are a muslim country
But no this has nothing to do with Religion.

This is Dictator ship

[Ecumenist]

6. Exactly, Oversea Visitor

Treatment of this nature actually goes AGAINST Islam. This is a GRAVE SIN and an offence againt God for true Muslims everywhere. trust me. I'm not Muslim but I have fammily members who are and studied it while I attended college.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. I live in a Muslim country

Malaysia, but it is a moderate muslim country.
They cant get away with this in Malaysia.

[Ecumenist]

9. Oh to have more common sense in the world..

I wish there was such a thing as justice in Saudi Arabia.

[PatGund]

14. This is NOT surprising...

I currently live in an Islamic country as well - Qatar.

And it's pretty much an open secret that if a local man rapes an expat woman, the chances are good that the expat woman will be detained "for her own protection" before being deported. If it's a western expat, she may have the rest of her employment contract paid off before being sent home. If it's not, then she's tossed aside and out of country.

The scary thing is, that's STILL better treatment than KSA does.

[bluestateguy]

2. What a disgusting piece of shit country Saudi Arabia is

"Our friends"

[sweetheart]

12. Really.

In a future world without any oil dependency on that
nasty country, i'd wholly support passive regime
change through disengagement. That a nation
tolerates and elevates such filth is so typical
of what bush supports around the world.

[Jazz2006]

4. Terrible story.

One can only hope that it gets as much attention and outrage as the Duke U story...'

but I won't hold my breath :(

[Mythsaje]

5. That's just fucked up...

No surprise, though. Unfortunately.

[Peter Frank]

8. Great...

More xenophobic propaganda on the DU :puke:

This kind of crap happens in the U.S. every day.

[Ecumenist]

10. What has been said that could be interpreted as

Xenophobic? I can understand that people whow express anger in a rather passionate way but I know that alot of what is done in Saudi is discgusting because it isn't Islamic.

[Peter Frank]

11. Sorry, but your choice of words doesn't make sense to me...

I would like to understand your point.

[LostinVA]

16. The poster's point was clearly made

[Peter Frank]

18. Really - This is clear to you?...

"I can understand that people whow express anger in a rather passionate way but I know that alot of what is done in Saudi is discgusting because it isn't Islamic."

[LostinVA]

15. Really? I've never heard of this happening in the US

As badly as the system often treats rape victims, I haven't read about any raped women being imprisoned for being raped. Seriously -- could you provide a link?

Xenophobic? I am one of the least xenophobic people on here. Hating the way the disgusting Saudis treat people isn't being xenophobic. Unless not liking Hitler, Stalin, the genocide in Rwanda, etc. is being xenophobic.

[Peter Frank]

19. In your un-xenophobic world, are all Saudis disgusting???

...

[killbotfactory]

13. I'm shocked

This from the same country that allowed a school full of girls to burn down instead of helping them, because they didn't want to see them out of their dress code?

Shocked.

But at least Bush likes to make out with the royal family. That's something, I guess.

[LostinVA]

17. Little Brother Bush... it's just so darned cute