Australia: Man who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity given five years in prison

An update on this story. "Man jailed over 'Bible' rape," from AAP, with thanks to JE:

A MAN who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity has been jailed for at least five years by a Sydney court.

As Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced today, the Downing Centre District Court heard a harrowing statement from the victim, revealing that her shame and fear had been compounded by her cultural background.

The woman, who cannot be named, arrived in Australia as a refugee from Iraq.

But she said that even when she was jailed by dictator Saddam Hussein, she never feared for her life the way she did after the rape.

"It is better if I'm dead," she told the court.

Al-Shawany's trial was told that he visited the woman, an acquaintance, at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre with another man.

The woman had been reading the Bible and Al-Shawany noted her contact with Christians.

The men told her they were "infidel people" and if she went with them, her killing "would be halal" - meaning her killer would go to heaven.

In September 2002, Al-Shawany lured the woman to a unit at Warwick Farm, claiming to have news about her family in Iraq.

She was hit on the head and had her hijab tied around her face before Al-Shawany raped her twice in what Judge Brian Knox described as a degrading, humiliating and brutal attack.

Afterwards Al-Shawany told her: "Let your Christ benefit you now".

It took the jury less than half an hour to convict him of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

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...every day, more and more Muslims are picking up the Bible and dropping the Qur'an and they like what they see...

....I suspect the Muslims frequent attacks on schools is due in part because they do not want the children to learn to read or to begin inquire about world events they hear about by way of TV, Radio, or the from stories they have heard from traveling relatives or neighbors...

....a childs natural response upon hearing something new or different is to ask "Why?"..

...Muslims hate the truth, and they hate it when young Muslims discover the truth, and Muslims really hate the truth when the infidels know it...

As the young woman may have discovered: "Islam is for losers."..

Afterwards Al-Shawany told her: "Let your Christ benefit you now".

But I though Islam respected all the prophets.

why only five...

Is this an example of the Sharia Law - "Better dead than read"?

I never knew hate until my 39th year when I finally understood 'why they hate us.' Islam is a plague on both houses - the house of islam and the house of war. It must be disrespected, discredited, disintegrated, dissimulated and dissolved.

The world can be a real shitbag and we don't know the half of it from the perspective of our couches. I didn't want this fight, didn't look for it, really. But a man has to ask the questions and when he finds the answers sometimes it requires self-sacrifice. This is our watch - our turn and we'd better not fuck it up people.

Australian sentences are usually very short compared to US sentences for the same crimes. I watch murder sentences and first murder only seems to get 15 years here.

Only the death penalty works:

It makes sure he doesn't do it again...

They should chop his dick off. Filth.

Spread the word people, inform all your friends, relatives, work colleagues of this site and others like it, bring the truth to the people and they will win the day.

Another hate crime perpetrated in the name of Allah. For in Allah World, the intolerable crime of believing in a loving God, in redemption, in goodwill and peace for all mankind as brethren on this planet, seems to warrant the harshest treatment.

Rape, beatings, stonings, marriage to children...there is nothing Allah won't permit Allah's men to do to all women. Allah has the biggest, most successful 'Misogynists Only' club on the planet.

It is too bad that Allah wasn't a woman.

FIVE years? What the hell happened? Did Australia officially join the ummah? Shameful is the nicest term I can think of at this point.

And yes indeed, as exsgtbrown stated above, Islam really is for losers. It's best to cleanse all infidel nations of it before they all become losers like all member nations of the ummah.

Makes my post regarding that young woman killed in the UK more relevant:

"...pack heat...take them to Hell with you."


Some Disturbed for the young kiddies:

The thing I treasure most in life cannot be taken away,
There will never be a reason why I will surrender to your advice
To change myself, I'd rather die, though they will not understand
I will make the greatest sacrifice, you can't predict
Where the outcome lies, you'll never take me alive
I'm alive

waaaa-aaaaaa-aaaa-aaa-ah-ah

you mother, get down with the sickness.

five years? not enough ...

UNLESS....

The Aussie police have a really bad jail where all the sodomites are.... through him in there...let this muslim become a woman since he is no man.

typo: meant "throw"

5 years? FIVE YEARS????

This low life would have received no less than 20 anywhere in the states on a guilty verdict.

In some states he would have received a LIFE SENTENCE!!

I don't know anything about Australian prisons but I hope that in one specific way, they are just like prisons in the US, Russia, and Latin America: a place where Abdul Reda Al-Shawany will get to experience often being brutally raped himself.

Let this punk learn firsthand the "humiliation" that he did to his victim.

Greetings:

Youz guys don't understand Islam.

This was an "honor" rape.

That muslim rapist should get his family jewels removed. For a muslim man, that is a fate worse than death.

Seems like a very lenient sentence. Will he be deported back to crapistan upon release, or welcomed with open arms into 'Stralian society as a changed (and improved) man?

5 year's is not enough. People like him, should be parachuted into the African Congo, and let the pigmy headhunter's teach him the fine art of beheading, Pigmy style...

I hope the Christian community there is embracing and supporting her.

You can be certain that if this Muslim raped the judge's daughter or wife, he would have gotten much more than five years.

The rabbis of the Talmud taught us, "He who is kind unto the cruel, will some day be cruel unto the kind." We see this every day, in how infidel governments in dar al harb show preferential treatment to Muslims, thereby facilitating Muslim cruelty towards their own citizens, whom they are supposedly sworn to protetct and serve. What travesty.

Afterwards Al-Shawany told her: "Let your Christ benefit you now".

I think we should be engraving "Let your Allah benefit you now" on all the bullets we're putting into the jihadis' skulls.

I never thought I'd hate an ideology more than I hated Communism, but then along came Islam.

For those who think five years is not enough, I agree.

However, taking into consideration the remarkable number of activist judges we have here, I think five is a good number.

We had a case here a few years back where a fellos on trial for raping his ex-girlfriend was advised by the judge to change his plea from guilty to not guilty.

Another case from around the same time involved a young man who was on his way home from a bar, intoxicated on illegal substances and took a fancy to a woman he saw asleep on her couch through the window.

He broke into her house and sexually assaulted her and was let off with a slap on the wrist and an admonition to behave himself.

No links available, sorry, but they were all over the papers here in Melbournistan.

I'm hoping this case is an indication of a turning tide, but not crossing my fingers.

L.Drummond.

interestinconundrum wrote :
"I hope the Christian community there is embracing and supporting her."

I think it would depend if they are interfaith Christians (which includes some conservative groups) or liberal (mainly Protestant) Christians. These two groups probably won't do anything at all. They won't risk offending Muslims.

Five years is not long enough. The woman victim will have to deal with this for more than five years, why shouldn't he?

interestinconundrum wrote :"I hope the Christian community there is embracing and supporting her."

I hope somebody is helping her. I bet somebody is planning her "honor killing" as we speak.

How vile. People like this don't deserve to live. They deserve to be slaughtered for their brutal crimes. This is mere proof of the severity of Islamist Fundamentalism and Islamic doctrines. I'm speechless at what to say to this. It's terribly foul.

So who is Oz's Grand Mufti now after 'Catmeat' Hilaly lost his job?? Anyway,whatever 'Muffin Man'
who is calling the shots for 'Religion of Peace'
ought to be mercilessly heckled by the Media,Human Rights & Women's Groups-who must demand a Fatwa [at least] against all Muslim men
who rape or are proposing to indulge in 'Honour'
Killings. How about Sheik Thingy making a public display of kissing the Bible & saying "There is no compulsion in the Religion of Islam..."
Yeah, and PIGS MIGHT FLY!

Isn't that what happens just as you start believing in something you get F*****!

Five years of Koran-reading, free legal library ('screw-the-infidels-with-their-own-laws') research, weight-training, and networking with fellow jihadis, then back out on the streets to do worse, -renewed, -refreshed and -more damned militant and dangerous than ever.

Strange plan, Oz.

(And every other Western land not taking this ideologically-based terrorism seriously.)

He's probably puzzled by what all the fuss is about.

5 year's is not enough. People like him, should be parachuted into the African Congo, and let the pigmy headhunter's teach him the fine art of beheading, Pigmy style...

That's too cruel...for the Pigmys that is.

I think we should parachute him into Gaza dressed as an Hasidic Rabbi. They'll tear him to pieces before his feet touch the ground.

Any chance he will get raped in prison? If he does, maybe his attacker will tell him "Let your Mohammed benefit you now".