Norwegian Woman Who Reported Being Raped In Dubai Is Jailed For 16 Months

[cavanami]

What a fine, Muslim country...NOT!!!!

 

Norwegian woman who reported being raped in Dubai is jailed for 16 months

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2367152/Norwegian-woman-reported-raped-Dubai-jailed-16-months.html

 

A young Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported a rape in Dubai.

The 25-year-old was in the United Arab Emirates on a business trip when she was raped and reported the assault to the local police.

Dubai police did not believe her, and instead took her passport and jailed her on suspicion of having had sex outside marriage...

[Plainsdrifter]

Of course, blame the victim.......

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

"Under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime."

 

So, you can pretty much rape with impunity in UAE. I wonder how many women get raped there on a yearly basis.

 

This Sharia law crap belongs in the dark ages.

 

Sanuk!

[Flashermac]

Islam seems to view women are deceivers who lead men into temptation and away from the saintly path Muhammad outlined for them. Thus women must "cover their beauty" and never be alone with a man outside of their own family. If they don't, it is their fault if a man rapes them. Obviously, these western women were to blame 1) for being there and 2) for not wearing a burqa.

 

Inshallah

[limbo]

Hi,

 

"Under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime."

 

So, you can pretty much rape with impunity in UAE. I wonder how many women get raped there on a yearly basis.

 

This Sharia law crap belongs in the dark ages.

 

Sanuk!

 

Four adult Muslim males must witness it; by that time it's probably gang rape.

[BelgianBoy]

Four adult Muslim males must witness it; by that time it's probably gang rape.

and one under the bed to steal their wallets, or is that only with penis massage ....?

[pasathai1]

what could one expect from a society that started

Bacha bazi

[Flashermac]

I expect that goes back well beyond Islam. Islam accepts it though.

 

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Bacha_bazi

[Bangkoktraveler]

Women in the USA were once treated as if they were chattel..... not much difference.

[Wallenda]

Women in the USA were once treated as if they were chattel..... not much difference.

 

I love these troll remarks that follow the pattern "at some distant point in history, the US (always the US) did X (usually a controversial interpretation, or else a bizarre one like above) and therefore this seemingly crass thing happening today being perpetrated by (usually Muslims or terrorists) is in fact acceptable"

 

really any responsible listing of the abuses of women in many Muslim countries (and of course not only them, but they are surely over-represented) would dwarf in size and severity a similar listing of such in the US at any point in its history.

 

But the real difference is none of that. Even if there was a time when American women weren't allowed out of their houses without burqas and chaperones, could be raped with impunity, murdered as honor killing, have their clits sewn shut at 5, etc etc., now it surely isn't like that. But these things do exist NOW, and there is overwhelming resistance to changing them in the countries where they happen.

 

But how you get to "no difference" -- well, Genghis Khan used to routinely boil his captured enemies alive, therefore anything anyone does these days should be OK, or else beyond criticiism (particularly by Mongolians). Statements like that seem a bit insane. You can go to any country on earth and find some sin in its past, so it effectively would mean that no one on earth could ever have any right to criticize wrongdoing. We would still have apartheid and even slavery if most people thought this way.

 

The difference is that one is real now, and the other (if it ever was) no longer is. One of them still exists in living people's reality, and can be changed.