Welcome To Sharia: Rape Victim In Sudan Gets Off Easy (Only A Jail Term And Not Being Stoned To Death)
From the BBC, the women was 18 and three months pregnant at the time she was raped. (She was house-hunting and lured to an empty property where she was attacked):
She was arrested after video of her allegedly being sexually abused was circulated on social media.Three men who admitted having sex with the woman and two who distributed the video were reportedly sentenced to being whipped.
The three were each sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery, while two got 40 lashes for distributing indecent material, according to women's rights group Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA).
'Brutal'
The woman was sentenced to a one-month jail term but this was suspended because she is pregnant, her lawyer, Samia al-Hashmi, told the AFP news agency.She was also fined 5,000 Sudanese pounds ($880; £530).
She had also faced charges of adultery and prostitution, which could have led to a penalty of death by stoning, but these were dropped after she convinced the court she was divorced, reports SIHA.
It says she now faces deportation.
Rape victims are often accused of "zina" -- unlawful sex between unmarried people (adultury). Zina Bil-Jabr is the term for rape. How did the rule that four men have to witness the rape for it to be rape and not adultery (punishable by death) come to pass? One of Mohammed's wives was accused of adultery based on the accusation of three men, and Mohammed (who frequently came up with rules to justify or enable his behavior) liked this wife (Aisha) the best, so the four-man rule was instituted.
In the absence of four witnesses (males only) to attest to a woman's being raped, she is considered an adulteress -- a crime punishable under Islam by stoning. (And not the kind that involves smoking a bowl and then passing out face-first in a plate of brownies.)
Those damned rethuglicans and their War On Womyn!
dee nile at February 23, 2014 7:26 AM
Can I just state that the Muslim religion and jurisprudence should never be in the same sentence?
Jim P. at February 23, 2014 8:08 PM
If the crime was videotaped and lots of people saw the video, don't they have four male witnesses? Can't you just show the video to four guys?
NicoleK at February 25, 2014 4:52 AM
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