Islam: 15-Year-Old, Raped By Stepfather, To Be Imprisoned, Flogged For "Fornication"
Andrew Buncombe writes at the Independent/UK:
A teenage girl in the Maldives who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather has been ordered to receive 100 lashes after she confessed to having had pre-marital sex with another man. She is said to be deeply traumatised.In an incident that has triggered widespread condemnation, the 15-year-old from the remote Feydhoo island was this week also ordered to spend eight months under house arrest. The flogging - handed down under a system of Shariah Law - will be carried out once the teenager reaches the age of 18 though she can ask it to be brought forward if she wishes.
...According to the Minivan news, the teenager involved in the latest case was sentenced following a police investigation that found she had been repeatedly raped by her stepfather. In the summer of 2012, the teenager gave birth to the step-father's baby, which he allegedly killed and buried beneath an outdoor shower area in their home.
During questioning by the police, the teenager reportedly confessed to having had consensual sex with another male. It is unclear whether this individual has been identified, traced or charged. Meanwhile, the teenager's stepfather faces up to 25 years in jail if he is convicted of rape and murder.
...In November 2011, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the authorities in the Maldives to halt the use of flogging. She said at the time: "This practice constitutes one of the most inhumane and degrading forms of violence against women, and should have no place in the legal framework of a democratic country."
Welcome to Islam! Leave your human rights at the door!
How inhumane can people be and still considered humans?
Jim P. at March 24, 2013 10:19 AM
@Jim P: If not human than what? "Descended from pigs and apes"? Oh, sorry. That one's taken. For shame.
That said, if they appoint themselves our enemies, bounce the rubble until they grow wise.
phunctor at March 24, 2013 11:18 AM
That poor girl. How much do you want to bet that her "confession" was beaten out of her so that those sadistic asshats could punish her as well? And who else thinks Step-dad will most likely skate, because..Man.
BTW, phunctor, a person that lacks humanity is not immediately regarded as an animal. That you jumped to that conclusion says more about you than Jim P.'s comment says about him.
There are far worse things, things from nightmares, things that we see in the shape of a human, but that have no empathy, no remorse, no caring or sensitivity. Serial Killers fit into that group, sociopaths, psychopaths, Monsters, all of them.
Kat at March 24, 2013 8:23 PM
Well, as Mark Twain so eloquently put it in The Mysterious Stranger, only humans behave that way. Beasts don't; we malign them by calling the worst of our own species by that name. Only humans are so casually cruel, and justify it by invoking their deity. To act like that is quintessentially human, and nothing else. (I am, of course, paraphrasing, but you get the gist.)
Grey Ghost at March 25, 2013 6:23 AM
There are some glimmerings of hope on rights in parts of the Islamic world
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/26/an-oasis-of-tolerance
causticf at March 26, 2013 12:54 PM
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