January 21, 201016 yr Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 12:45 AM on 21st January 2010 Comments (23) Add to My Stories A 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was caught with a mobile camera phone. The girl, who has not been named, was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the eastern city of Jubail. She had assaulted her headmistress after being caught with the gadget which is banned in girl schools, said Al-Watan, a Saudi newspaper. The kingdom's use of such punishments has been widely condemned by human rights organisations. Brutal: public floggings, such as in this archive picture, are a common punishment handed down by religious courts in Saudi Arabia Three years ago 16 schoolchildren, aged between 12 and 18, were each sentenced to between 300 and 500 lashes for being aggressive to a teacher. Under Saudi's Sharia or Islamic law, flogging is mandatory for a number of moral offences such as adultery or being alone in the company of an unrelated person of the opposite sex. But it can also be used at the discretion of judges as an alternative or in addition to other punishments. Al-Watan said a court in the northeastern Gulf port of Jubail had sentenced the girl to 90 lashes inside her school, followed by two months' detention. The punishment is harsher than tha dished out to some robbers and looters. Saudi Arabia, a leading US ally in the Middle East, is an absolute monarchy controlled by the Al-Saud ruling tribe, and lacks any legal code. Absolute monarchy: King Abdullah, ruler of the oil-rich state, meeting Gordon Brown on a 2007 visit to Downing Street King Abdullah has promoted some social reforms since taking the throne in 2005 but diplomats say he is held back by religious clerics and princes. Cinemas and music concerts are banned, while many restaurants and even some shopping centres cater to families only, especially on holidays. Religious police roam streets to make sure no unrelated men and women mix. The Saudi court system is exclusively controlled Wahahbi/Salafi clerics, and bans the employment of non-Salafi citizens, especially as judges. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading country in the use of torture-by-flogging, public beheadings and publically crucifying condemned prisoners. The country crucified two people in 2009, including one in the capital Riyadh during President Barak Obama’s visit last April. In September, 20 Saudi teenagers who ransacked shops and restaurants were publicly flogged. Newspapers reported that the teenagers received at least 30 lashes each in a public square. Most of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks in 2001 came from Saudi Arabia. Oil wealth: a refinery in Jubail, where a court ordered a girl of 13 to be flogged Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1244689/Saudi-girl-13--sentenced-90-lashes-took-mobile-phone-school.html#ixzz0dFGO7c1T
January 21, 201016 yr :thumbsdown: but we can't do anything about it, they're extremists. still lame tho
January 21, 201016 yr Author Primitive folk. Though some of their punishments are fair IMO :thinking: Which ones?:confused:
January 21, 201016 yr Last year there was a woman who was attacked by a crazy stalker-lover she didn't like at all, and he wanted her to marry him, but she denied. So in the end, out of pure hate, the guy threw a pot with acid into her face and garbled it completely and made her blind. Then she had the permission from the court to bind him, too. Which I totally support, because I'd have done the same to this fucker :angry:
January 21, 201016 yr Author Last year there was a woman who was attacked by a crazy stalker-lover she didn't like at all, and he wanted her to marry him, but she denied. So in the end, out of pure hate, the guy threw a pot with acid into her face and garbled it completely and made her blind. Then she had the permission from the court to bind him, too. Which I totally support, because I'd have done the same to this fucker :angry: :stunned:
January 21, 201016 yr :stunned: What would you do to a person that threw acid into your face and gets away unpunished? :confused:
January 21, 201016 yr Last year there was a woman who was attacked by a crazy stalker-lover she didn't like at all, and he wanted her to marry him, but she denied. So in the end, out of pure hate, the guy threw a pot with acid into her face and garbled it completely and made her blind. Then she had the permission from the court to bind him, too. Which I totally support, because I'd have done the same to this fucker :angry: You're a fucking idiot.
January 21, 201016 yr Author What would you do to a person that threw acid into your face and gets away unpunished? :confused: The question is, could you bring yourself to throw acid into somebody else's face, whatever the circumstances?:thinking:
January 21, 201016 yr The question is, could you bring yourself to throw acid into somebody else's face, whatever the circumstances?:thinking: I believe the guy got the eyes cut out from a doctor.:thinking: And no, I couldn't bring myself to do such a thing, that would be too much :sick:
January 21, 201016 yr I dunno, I guess you were born that way. So your answer is mainly "I dunno" and made out of guesses? Maybe I'm not the only idiot around here.
January 21, 201016 yr So your answer is mainly "I dunno" and made out of guesses? Maybe I'm not the only idiot around here. But you are an idiot, at least we're getting somewhere. Look up Ethics for Dummies if that exists.
January 21, 201016 yr But you are an idiot, at least we're getting somewhere. Look up Ethics for Dummies if that exists. Are you another one of these persons who think they're funny by insulting people who just say their opinion about a serious topic? This is boring, and I'm wasting my time on here. Have fun being useless.
January 21, 201016 yr I don't get what the big deal is. This is what any government will do to you (eventually) if you don't go along with what they say. EDIT: Bitch should have followed the rules. Agreed. Just follow the law, people! What's so difficult about that?
January 22, 201016 yr Author Are you another one of these persons who think they're funny by insulting people who just say their opinion about a serious topic? Did you really need to ask?:rolleyes: This is boring, and I'm wasting my time on here. Have fun being useless. I'm sure they will.:dozey:
January 22, 201016 yr Author I don't get what the big deal is. This is what any government will do to you (eventually) if you don't go along with what they say. If your government starts dishing out barbaric punishments for doing things like possessing a mobile phone, come back and let us all know.;) Agreed. Just follow the law, people! What's so difficult about that? Next time you commit a "misdemeanour", just be grateful you're not "flogged" for it.;)
January 22, 201016 yr Did you really need to ask?:rolleyes: I'm sure they will.:dozey: Is leeching off other peoples comments the only way you get in these pathetic sucker punches?
January 22, 201016 yr Author Is leeching off other peoples comments the only way you get in these pathetic sucker punches? Is criticising other people's posts and threads all the time the only way you know how to operate?:rolleyes: (This is rhetorical, by the way, so don't bother to answer).;)
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