{"id":2164,"date":"2007-03-07T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/this-is-what-a-muslim-country.html"},"modified":"2007-03-07T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:57:00","slug":"this-is-what-a-muslim-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/this-is-what-a-muslim-country.html","title":{"rendered":"This is what a Muslim country looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia isn&#8217;t considered an extremist government like the Taliban in Afghanistan, though I can&#8217;t figure out why not.  What civilized country would treat their women this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes &#8212; for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday.<br \/>\nIn an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed a year ago into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.<br \/>\nAfter driving off together from a shopping mall near her home, the woman and the man were stopped and abducted by a gang of men wielding kitchen knives who took them to a farm where she was raped 14 times by her captors.<br \/>\nFive men were arrested for the rape and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years by a panel of judges in the eastern city of Qatif, near the woman&#8217;s hometown.<br \/>\nBut the judges also decided to sentence the woman, identified by the newspaper only as \u2018G,&#8217; and the man to lashes for being alone together in the car.<br \/>\nUnrelated men and women are forbidden from interacting in public in Saudi Arabia, which strictly enforces Islamic Sharia law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what it looks like to live under Sharia law, women are tortured because they were alone with a man. Unbelievable!<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=24710&amp;only&amp;rss\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Islam\" rel=\"tag\">Islam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Sharia+law\" rel=\"tag\">Sharia law<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Saudi+Arabia\" rel=\"tag\">Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia isn&#8217;t considered an extremist government like the Taliban in Afghanistan, though I can&#8217;t figure out why not. 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