Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang- raped has been pardoned by the Saudi monarch in a case that sparked an international outcry, including rare criticism from the United States, the kingdom's top ally.
The woman, known only as "the Girl of Qatif," was convicted of violating Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic laws against mixing of the sexes because she was in a car with a man she was not related to when the seven men attacked and raped them both in 2006.
The sentence shocked many in the West. In unusually strong criticism of a close ally, President Bush said that if the same thing happened to one of his daughters, he would be "angry at those who committed the crime. And I'd be angry at a state that didn't support the victim."
That's right... it's the woman's fault she got raped!
Peace with Islam? Not on THESE terms!
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Ah. I know. This is one of the reasons daddio and some others diss you now. Sometimes you step out of the party line.
Yer kind of a Republican Zell Miller that way. :-)
While I like Bush 43, I'm honest enough to say he's made his fair share of mistakes. But just because Saudi Arabia is our ally in the WOT, that doesn't exclude them from honest criticism of what we in the West rightly consider serious Human Rights faux pas.