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UAE: Rape victim arrested for sex outside marriage when she reported, and told she had to marry rapist

Feb 2, 2014 11:25 pm By Robert Spencer

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This is a result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery. Allah gave him a revelation requiring four male witnesses to establish such a crime: “And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony – They indeed are evil-doers” (Qur’an 24:4). The problem with this is that women who accuse men of rape but cannot produce four male witnesses are often accused themselves of zina — unlawful sexual intercourse — and jailed as a result.

“Austrian rape victim was arrested for having sex outside of marriage in UAE when she reported the crime… and told she had to MARRY her attacker,” by Luke Garratt for the Daily Mail, January 31:

An Austrian woman who was raped in Dubai has been arrested for having extra martial [sic] sex and was told by police she could only avoid jail if she married her attacker.

The 29-year-old student from Vienna was facing a jail sentence having been accused of having sex outside of marriage and drinking alcohol, both of which are illegal in the United Arab Emirate capital.

It was only after the Austrian Foreign Ministry intervened, that she was able to leave the country and return home.

The unnamed woman, who is understood to be Muslim, had been to a party at a hotel where the rules on alcohol are often lax, according to Austrian officials.

She said the attack happened in an underground car park after a Yemeni man in Dubai approached her.

When she reported it to police, she was arrested and told she could only escape being charged if she agreed to marry the man she said had attacked her.

The student was released after a special crisis team was sent by the Austrian Foreign Ministry to Dubai to negotiate with the authorities. She was greeted by Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz when she landed in Vienna yesterday.

An online petition also helped to bring attention to the situation, gaining over 260,000 signatures calling for her release in just a few days.

Her quick release came as a surprise because, as a Muslim, she would likely have been treated more severely than non-Muslim Western visitors in trouble with police because of the strict Islamic rules surrounding drinking.

Her case has been compared the eventual pardon of a 24-year-old Norwegian woman who was given a prison sentence of one year and four months by a Dubai court after she reported her own rape last year.

Instead of being treated as a victim, she was found guilty of alcohol abuse and extramarital sex.

She was later pardoned and allowed to return to Norway after there was a global outcry about her treatment.

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  1. johndcross1 says

    Feb 2, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    The western democracies must boycott this country at all cost. Being raped & required to marry the attacker is beyond human decency & an insult to the victim’s dignity. Don’t waste your money on this country.

    • Shane says

      Feb 3, 2014 at 10:29 am

      Where is the outcry from liberal feminists about the treatment of women in Muslim countries? A few feminists speak out, but most of them don’t want to criticize their Muslim allies. Feminists and Muslims make very strange bedfellows!

  2. Salah says

    Feb 2, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    “This is a result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery. ”

    The story of Aisha and young, handsome Safwan.
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/aisha-and-safwan.html

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 1:40 am

    Westerners need to boycott these places. It should be considered unethical for a travel agency to deal with this backward dictatorship.

    Barbarians with bank accounts.

  4. Rob says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 2:26 am

    Where are the Western feminists crying out for bans and divestment?
    Why are Western women clamoring for jobs at Emirates?
    If it happened in Israel, the outcry would be deafening.
    This is the second instance in this region in 12 months.

    • Shane says

      Feb 3, 2014 at 10:37 am

      Good points. The left is allied with Muslims against Western Civilization and Christianity, so they don’t like to criticize their allies.

  5. daniel says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 2:53 am

    ‘;alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//’

  6. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 7:00 am

    “anyone who choses Islam and then flouts its rules”

    Agreed– but, I’ll bet she (like the great majority of muslims) was completely ignorant of Islam and sharia’a

    Who would bet against this?

  7. Jerry says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 7:19 am

    The Sharia rules were devised a by desert warlord, murderer, rapist, armed robber and paedophile who proclaimed himself as the last and final prophet.

    They are patently designed and continually used to punish the female and child victims of emotionally and intelectually immature male adherents of a religion based on hate of all that differ slightly from the deviant adherents or their manipulative religious leaders.

    Even before the year 1900 Sir Winston Churchil, after visits to Islamic States discovered and observed that the main obstacle to the universal abolition of slavery is the religion that institutionalised and justified it.

    Nothing much have change since in the Islamic world.

  8. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 10:24 am

    A day may come when islam0fascist states will tell countries like Austria and Australia to pound sand, that anyone violating islam0fascist law in their states is subject to their punishments.

    • Daphne says

      Feb 3, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      Australia at the moment has people on both sides of Federal Politics determined to stand against Islam. However Western Australia seems to have buckled under to their demands, and Victoria is folding.
      Australia’s only chance is a Revival to the Judeo/Christianity from which it was born

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 3, 2014 at 9:57 pm

        I wish you and AUS good luck and god speed. You’ll all need it. We’ll all need it.

      • Jacqui Daniel says

        Feb 4, 2014 at 8:13 am

        Yes,…in Western Australia our premier Barnett refused to allow a fellow politician from Netherlands, Geert Wilders, to speak in any public building…despite the booking already made at one, he refused to allow the general public who voted him in to HEAR WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW, and showing he either doesn’t have a clue about islam OR is a coward
        Secondly, we had a case of a child genitally mutilated over two years ago, and there has BEEN NO POLICY ENQUIRY OR CHARGES LAID…and the region that this unfortunate child lives in ‘advertises its diversity’ with a young girl with hijab on as the most dominant feature in the visual advert, when islam actually discriminates against females

  9. Cindy McCoy says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 11:08 am

    These people are crazy!!!!! Who in their right mind would want a woman who had been brutally raped to marry the monster who did it to you?????? Only those that are just as much a monster as the freak that attacked the woman!! Sick in the head!!!!!!!!!!

  10. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    much of the quran lends itself to farce.

    for instance, a rape victim needs 4 male witnesses to press charges.
    it lends itself to rapists and silences raped and abused women, afraid of being accused themselves… zina.

    similarly wife beating, the blasphemy laws, honour killings, incest, inherent cruelty toward minorities, gays, women and girls. slavery and sex slaves. (the only reason to have a slave in this day and age)

    its a pretty repulsive sect, the ol’ islam.

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    UAE: Rape victim arrested for sex outside marriage when she reported, and told she had to marry rapist
    ……………………………..

    Revictimizing the victim is mainstream Islam

    More:

    It was only after the Austrian Foreign Ministry intervened, that she was able to leave the country and return home.
    ……………………………..

    She owes a lot to the intervention of the “filthy Infidel”—will she appreciate it? I wouldn’t count on it…

    More:

    The unnamed woman, who is understood to be Muslim, had been to a party at a hotel where the rules on alcohol are often lax, according to Austrian officials.
    ……………………………..

    As a Muslimah, she should have understood the consequences in Dar-al-Islam…

    More:

    She said the attack happened in an underground car park after a Yemeni man in Dubai approached her.

    When she reported it to police, she was arrested and told she could only escape being charged if she agreed to marry the man she said had attacked her.
    ……………………………..

    It is quite common for Muslim apologists to show up here at Jihad Watch, insisting that rape is taken very seriously as a crime in Islam. Stories like this one give the lie to such assertions.

  12. dad says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    We are rapidly implementing sharia in the USA.

    When it happens here in the USA, a sharia court can decide. We will see if the left speaks up. (not) Oh well, its not like the left even live on the planet.

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