Religion of Peace, My Ass! (Part 18)

It's been a long time since I've posted under the heading of Religion of Peace, My Ass! Maybe because I realized how hateful it could make me seem? Nah...it was because there are just too damn many examples of horrors and terrors committed in the name of the religion. So, what to choose? And there are just too damn few examples of 'peace.'

But sometimes you just gotta say something. Like this story of an atrocity as relayed through Fox News.

A 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced under the country's Islamic-based law to 90 lashes for the "crime" of being alone with a man not related to her. (Read further to find out just what a piece of work this guy is.)
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Lashes are usually spread over several days. About 50 lashes are given at a time. (How compassionate!)
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Five of the rapists were arrested and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for the men. (Now that was appropriate.)

The Saudi justice ministry, however, said rape could not be proved because there were no witnesses and the men had recanted confessions they made during interrogation. (Under the RoP, the raped and abused woman is not believed. Can't have women being equal to men, after all. That would really piss off Allah.)

The judges, basing their decision on Islamic law, also decided to sentence the woman and her original blackmailer to lashes for being alone together in his car. (And now, all is right with the world. Compassion is not part of the RoP. But keeping women in their place...that's what it is all about.)

Islam: a dark ages religion, as practiced in the home of the prophet.