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What do you think about saudi people

Ruslana · Accepted Answer

I've never met one in reality, so I don't know them to have a personal opinion.

BW2/3 · Answer

Lashing Justice

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/opinion/03mon2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Muslims who wonder why non-Muslims are often baffled, angered, even frightened by some governments’ interpretation of Islamic law need only look to the cases of two women in Saudi Arabia and Sudan threatened with barbaric lashings.

In Saudi Arabia, a woman who was gang-raped was sentenced to 90 lashes. The reason? Before the rape, the woman, who was then 19, had been in a car with a man who was not a family member — a crime under the kingdom’s legal code, which is based on a strict Wahabi reading of Islamic law. Punishing the victim of a brutal rape is reprehensible. Then a Saudi appeals court more than doubled her lashings to 200 and added six months’ jail time, apparently because she had the audacity to publicly challenge the court’s ruling. Her lawyer had his license to practice suspended.

In Sudan, a British primary school teacher was originally threatened with 40 lashes, a fine, or six months in jail after her class of 7-year-olds voted to name a teddy bear Muhammad. The government accused her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad is one of the most common names among Muslims, including the student who suggested it for the teddy bear. On Thursday, the court reduced the teacher’s sentence to 15 days in jail, but found her guilty and ordered her deported.

Saudi Arabia and Sudan have notoriously bad human rights records and the cases have ominous political overtones. The Khartoum government — so willing to punish the crime of naming a teddy bear — is responsible for the genocide in Darfur. The case was widely seen as a warning against Westerners who protest that mass slaughter. In the Saudi case, the girl was a member of the country’s persecuted Shiite minority, and experts said her sentence was harsh even by Saudi standards.

Khartoum’s few friends, in the Arab League and China, should make clear that such cynical games will only increase its isolation. The world should expect better from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, who has introduced some — but not nearly enough — political and judicial reforms. The king has a hallowed responsibility in Islam as Keeper of the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina. What one Muslim leader, Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain, said about the Sudan case can also be applied to the Saudis’: “How does this help the cause of Islam? What kind of message and image are we portraying about our religion and our culture?”

What do you think about this article?

Hummingbird · Answer

Bw2

what do you think?

BW2/3 · Answer

I think just what Ibrahim Mogra said.

BW2/3 · Answer

Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim Sentenced to Be Lashed, Saudi Paper Reports

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/world/middleeast/18saudi.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

Anonymous · Answer

I think Saudi as the rest of arabs are just so double standard!

There is a joke about it:

An arab was trying to call his arab fiancee but her cell was busy. When she called him back he asked her why the line was busy, so she replied tht it was a wrong call from a strage guy. Arab got mad and told her tht he is not going to marry her cuz she is a prostitute cuz she speaks to strange men. Some time later the same guy married a european girl, so one day she asked him if he would join her for her ex boyfriend birthday party. He replied: "Sure darling!"

Hummingbird · Answer

Yeah, you may laugh at this for as long as you want.

but that girl, you're talking about, is married and was seen with another man who is ofcourse not a relative. As an Islamic community, we VALUE chasity, Women and Men are being completely separated, i can only see my hasband father,brothers, uncles and granfather.

is that too bad?? at the oppisit. we live in peace.

do you suppose it would something bad, when you learn that the girl you're about to get married to, is pure and chaste-is this too good to be true. we are PURE and chaste.

we don't get to be BOYS TOYS-

read this..

http://garybaumgarten.blogspot.com/2007/07/girl-cant-wear-chastity-ring-to-school.html

lol.. now ..we can make a really good joke out of this...

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