A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports. [...] Fahd told the [...]]]> In the “makes you want to puke category”, via Little Green Footballs…
CNN: Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.
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Fahd told the policeman he had the right to be there, because Sawadi had breast-fed him as a baby and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men.
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In 2007, a 19-year-old gang-rape victim in the Saudi city of Qatif was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for meeting with an unrelated male. The seven rapists, who abducted the woman and man, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.

A seventy five year old woman likely will not survive forty lashes.

I didn’t repost when I saw this go around, but it is in the pukey category, too.

1. A twisted pervert rapes his 9-year old step-daughter. 2. Mom, who is concerned that the twins her 9-year old daughter is carrying as a result of this rape might endanger her daughter’s health, takes her daughter to a doctor. 3. Doctor agrees that the daughter’s life in in danger and performs an abortion.
And what does the Catholic Church do? It excommunicates the girl’s mother and the doctor, but not the pervert who raped a little girl, setting this entire, horrible chain of events in motion. I am not kidding.

Me posting these items on this blog won’t do the first thing to make them go away or stop happening. But, I guess I just have to add another frail voice to the protest.

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