The rapists in this case were likely working from assumptions articulated back in 2009 by the Iranian Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi: “If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage [to Mecca], but if there is no execution decreed, then the reward would be equivalent to making a pilgrimage to [the Shi’ite holy city of] Karbala.” Iran is Shi’ite and Saudi Arabia is Sunni, and so Saudis would place no importance on going to Karbala or some other Shi’ite shrine, but the idea that raping a female prisoner brings spiritual rewards of some kind is not likely to be held only by Shi’ites, especially in light of the fact that the Qur’an allows Muslim men to have sexual relations with “captives of the right hand,” that is, infidel women captured in jihad warfare (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, and 70:30).
“Saudi Arabia’s recently released women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was allegedly raped, sexually harassed in prison,” OpIndia, February 11, 2021:
Saudi Arabian women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was released from prison after three years, has narrated her horrifying ordeal of custodial torture. Hathloul has reportedly alleged that she was raped in prison for three years and was subjected to sexual abuse by multiple people. She was released on Wednesday after 1001 days in prison amid persistent international pressure for her release….
According to reports, Hathloul was imprisoned to almost six years in prison in December last year. She was arrested in May 2018 along with several other women activists. She was released after 2 years and 10 months of her arrest and her sentences was applied retrospectively since May 2018. Hathloul demanded women’s right to drive and also the abolition of Saudi Arabia’s restrictive male guardianship system that limits women’s right to movement. Even after her release Hathloul, however, will be under probation and is banned from travelling.
Hathloul was allegedly raped and shown pornographic films
It has been alleged by the family of Hathloul that she was given electric shocks and sexually harassed in prison. A letter written by human rights lawyer Baroness Kennedy reportedly stated that Hathloul was raped many times in Saudi Arabia’s prison. Before that, she was also allegedly raped several times during interrogation. Kennedy further alleged that she was shown pornographic films during interrogation and that she was hung from a ceiling, severely beaten and given electric shock multiple times during her imprisonment.
mgoldberg says
No doubt the ICC will immediately investigate and find Israel guilty of crimes against humanity.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious.
Mount Zion says
Why do they even talk about the rape and the ordeal she went trough in prison if Saudi Arabia isn’t going to suffer any consequences anyways . We saw almost the same stunt in the case of Kashoggi , if you can pull off something like that with impunity , then you don’t have to worry that a released women’s rights activist might spill the beans of what happened to her during her prison time . It’s time to hold them accountable .
gravenimage says
Mount Zion, it *is* important for us to learn the horrors of Islam, regardless of whether there is ever any justice in the case. Kudos to her for speaking out.
Alfredo says
The followers of the wretched “religion of peace” have shown once again what a truly depraved and morally bankrupt cult it really is.
vcragain says
As a female this makes my blood boil…..the only payback would be castration of the prison guards who did these ghastly deeds……NOTHING will ever change my 81 yr old mind’s opinion of the totally disgusting reality of what ISLAM is…..NOTHING…this has been my opinion since 15 years old, after my father’s return to UK from working in Kuwait for 3 years….he had a LOT to say about the males he had to work with there & warned my innocent teen self to keep away from ME/Muslim males !!! I feel sorry for those who actually believe they belong to something worthwhile….they shoud listen to those who have seen the light and LEFT the cult…
gravenimage says
vcragain, glad to hear your father warned you about Islam–this was loing before most people in the West knew anything about it.
Wellington says
“…rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward…”
This is mainstream Islam, whether Sunni or Shiite. And this alone, never mind all the other rot in Islam such as death for apostasy as exampled by Sura 4:89, should be enough to consign Islam to the trash heap of history for eternity.
Sorry to say, but because of well over a billion people “in the system” still being terribly confused, i.e., Mohammedans, and way too many millions of people not “in the system,” i.e., obedient and highly ignorant dhimmis who continue to make excuses for Islam, Mo’s evil creed (and yes, it is evil and one knows this or should know this) has continued life.
Mankind is so very often more of a collective idiot than not. Islam’s continued existence serves as a case in point—a most terrible, useless, stupid and tragic case in point.
Westman says
Amen.
No one needs to say anything beyond truth to offend or ridicule Islam. Its exposure by modern communications is even doing that with only real images. If anyone wants a job where failure is the common mode, work for CAIR where daily images belie your efforts and paint your cause as ignorant or subversive.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Wellington. Raping people brings a “spiritual reward” (I had not heard about this aspect of Islam before and I was stunned when I read it in this report) to the rapist from the loathsome version of god that Muslims believe in. How evil is islam to actually condone such a disgusting view of life. If you are an evil scumbag, which is what Islam creates in huge numbers, then being a member of islam certainly is very convenient. You carry out acts that any civilised human being considers to be quite obviously evil (raping people, etc) and you get a “spiritual reward” from the satanic version of god that you worship. Islam truly is an unbelievably sick and twisted ideology and I agree with your point of view that islam’s continued existence is a blight on humanity. Unfortunately, satanically evil islam seems as if it is going to be around, poisoning the human race with its barbarity, for a while yet.
gravenimage says
Tim, here is one sickening story:
“He said that raping me is his prayer to God”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/he-said-that-raping-me-is-his-prayer-to-god
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that reference, gravenimage. How sick and evil is islam!! So now raping is praying. This bent and sick sort of thinking truly fits into that category of, hey, you just couldn’t make this stuff up. The level of diseased and evil thinking in Islam is off the charts. It does resemble satanism. And,as I said in my comment up above, it is a very convenient type of religion if you are a thoroughly evil person. I knew all about the Muslims getting around thinking that raping non-Muslims is perfectly acceptable, etc, but I was stunned to read that pronouncement from the Iranian “holy man” in this article about how, if a woman prisoner is sentenced to be executed then raping her before her execution is some kind of action that allah would approve of and give you brownie points for doing. Islam is sadistic and just about as evil as any creed can get. It is almost like a religion that the Marquis de Sade would invent, though I guess Muhammad was right down there with the Marquis de Sade in terms of being evil. I’m sure that St Croix (in the comment below) is right in saying that a lot of the Arabs that flocked to islam were scum of the earth and just wanted to indulge in murderous, degenerate behaviour. The membership hasn’t changed much since then.
gregbeetham says
And that’s exactly why the Koran is a manmade fake cult, it was compiled to fit in with and appeal to the kind of pagan morality that was endemic within the Arab and Persian/Arab tribes of the region some of which worshipped the Moon and some worshipped a stone but the patriarchal domination continued on in the Koran as well as promoting lots of raping and pillaging and plunder to be enjoyed by all who followed Muhammad and Allah.
There were a couple of downsides, like getting killed if you leave Islam and the constant prayer each day which didn’t leave much time for doing anything else but raping captive sex slaves and supervising other slaves to do all the actual work, but hey, it was not all work and no play.
Islam worked when there were always new places to subjugate and plunder but anytime that slowed down they started bickering among themselves which was brought about by their high birth rate and the consequent diminishment of their resource base.
gravenimage says
Tim, although I don’t believe this is found in the orthodox texts of Islam, it is widely believed in Islam that virgin girls do not go to hell. So far this sounds fairly sweet–but this means that Muslims will then rape girls sentenced to death so that they can go to hell. Sick, sick stuff. This is especially rife in Iran, but also happens elsewhere.
Of course, Muslims rape women for other reasons, as well–they might just consider a womens’ rights activist to be a virtual apostate and hence fair game for rape like any other Infidel.
God, I hate Islam.
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, gregbeetham and LB, I have read about many of these extremely evil aspects of Islam here at Jihad Watch, but so much of this information doesn’t get out to the average person through the mainstream media. Islam continues to get this good press and a lot of the media (who probably know nothing about islam) continue with the bullshit about how Islam is just another religion, basically pleasant and well meaning, etc. There are always those Muslim rape gangs such as in the UK and throughout Europe, but this Muslim rape culture, which is behind this evil, doesn’t get out to a lot of people. Here in Australia, just this week there has been an interesting bail hearing. Back in 2000, there was a bunch of Muslim scum, very young men, I think there 14 involved, and they raped a large number of teenage girls in Sydney. The main Muslims were named Skaf. This was a huge case out here. The main rapist got a 50 year jail sentence. The sentences were incredibly long for this country. His younger brother got 28 years and it was reduced, on appeal, to 20 years or something like that. This guy appealed for bail this week. In the news it said that this Muslim scumbag still doesn’t accept that the rapes were his fault. It was the teenage girls’ fault. No doubt because of his Muslim view of the world. The victims weren’t covered up enough I suppose. That’s Islam. I think the bail hearing will continue this week. They should throw the key away on this maggot.
Robert_k says
What do you expect when Mohammad is the role model of the religion. Married Aisha when she was six years old , consummated the marriage when she was nine, sanctions sex slaves, wife beating, his idea of paradise is 72 virgins being constantly raped…
But Mohammad must be the first Women’s Libber as I heard it from Linda Sarsour.
LB says
As much as I appreciate Robert Spencer’s efforts to connect islamic theology and historic examples of rape sanctioned by islamic teachings, I have a hard time believing that the muslim rapists in this case (and in most other rape cases) are referencing those same things in their minds before raping their female victims as a sort of divine justification for it.
My perspective on this is simple: islam is a rape cult that appeals to low IQ subhumans. Therefore, there is no need to justify anything when it comes to rape because the act itself is allowed and encouraged in islam, regardless of who it is done to. I remember a story a while ago here on JW where a muslim father and an entire family of male relatives in India or Pakistan (can’t remember) raped his daughter before “honor” killing her.
Point being, when it comes to rape, the muslims would rape even their own children without remorse. That is how islam warps the minds of its followers. Rape = divinely sanctified in islam, that’s about the extent of complexity of thought that goes through a mind of every muslim rapist.
gravenimage says
LB, Muslims *do* often specifically refer to the texts and tenets of Islam to justify rape–see my reference to “Raping Me is His Prayer”, above.
But you are right that since Muslims are just steeped in the curlture of rape from their earliest years, that many probably don’t specifically refer to Islam, and just assume that all men act like this–equally disgusting.
St. Croix says
“Loathsome” is the word.
If I am not mistaken, all women sentenced to death MUST be raped before execution. The fact they are being execution means they are EVIL! However, if a woman is a virgin, she will go to heaven regardless, according to Islamic creed. Therefore, she must be raped to prevent this from happening, because she is EVIL, and should not go to heaven! She is being executed, isn’t she?
You are right, tim gallagher, it’s not hard to see how Islam grew so fast. How the armies of young male followers just fell from the trees, in a rush to volunteer to help spread Islam to nearby regions, then on and on, until they conquered so much of the world as it was then known. Not only freedom to rape, kill, loot and have sex slaves, but also that such behaviour is sure to be rewarded by Allah! How good can it get? Christianity, by comparison, offers self-denial, picking up of one’s cross and following Jesus, persecution…
Yet, so many Muslims inside those countries are turning to Christ! In spite of the risks. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit, unlike Islam, where they are offered rewards for being criminals.
gravenimage says
Good post.
Andrew says
Its rather strange that no Western Feminists are outside the Saudi Embassy screaming about these men grabbing pussy…Silence is violence… remember ….
gregbeetham says
They probably think it is hate speech.
gravenimage says
I believe in equality and I condemn this savagery.
St. Croix says
They want to defend women.
And they want to defend Islam (not sure why, exactly, except that it’s not Christian).
Well, you can’t have it both ways. Islam has women-hating embedded into the very fibre.
The cognitive dissonance must be unbearable. Most Western Feminists just can’t even go near stories like this. If they do, it will be along the lines of “oh, those horrible Saudis, they killed Kashoggi!” But as Wellington pointed out, it’s actually just pure core Islam.
gregbeetham says
Maybe the feminists don’t like Christianity because Jesus was a male.
James Lincoln says
gregbeetham,
WOW, you got me!
gregbeetham says
Ha ha, maybe someone should tell them that Muhammad was a male also.
They’d probably say “Who’s Muhammad?”
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia: Woman’s rights activist was allegedly raped repeatedly while in prison
……………………..
This *poor woman*. This is horrifying common treatment of women in Islamic prisons–including to ex-Muslim and JW commenter Mojdeh.
Everyone who believes that Islam is “moral” should read this horrible story.
St. Croix says
Yes, gravenimage, everyone should read this story! Everyone on the planet.
Now, if a prison guard in the West did this, there’d be hell to pay.
Yet, in Islamic countries, it is not only permitted, but sanctioned, commended and highly encouraged, with religious leaders spelling out the SPIRITUAL rewards to the perps. Can we get our heads around that? No, we can’t.
And yet people defend ISLAM??
“That’s not Islam!”
“And that’s not Islam either!”
“Nor that!”
Ad infinitum.
Pray tell, what IS Islam? All these crimes and heinous acts, day after day, week after week, year after year. ALL exceptions to the rule? To the rule of the true, pure Islam?
Why are there so many who are living the exception, then? And from many nations and cultures, they’ve somehow gotten the same ideas.
Yes, they are Muslims, with the same ideas about what it means to live a Muslim life. Especially the men. They all get these crazy ideas. The very same ideas, mind you. Incredibly consistent!
Extraordinary, isn’t it? How they keep coming up with the same misunderstandings–all over the world–of what it is to live as a Muslim man?
gravenimage says
+1
gregbeetham says
I’m sure the left and the feminists haven’t got a clue what they are dealing with and in their blissful ignorance they project our morality onto Muslims in order to ‘idealise’ them into something acceptable that they can believe in, a sort of imaginary replacement Muslim who is benign and pious in accordance with their propaganda, which is fine by the Muslims of course because the useful idiots provide them with a convenient cover which makes their deception much easier to carry out but they have no intention of morphing into something that would actually fit the lefty mold, they are just biding their time and multiplying like rabbits, which is something that they can do.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, St. Croix.
My compliments…
Ade Fegan says
“not all muslims” ?
well “not all” nazis exterminated people
but we still wouldn’t want millions of them in our countries
Is it islamophobic to say what %age of muslims with this mentality is acceptable ?
gravenimage says
+1
Norman Gardner says
None
Giacomo Latta says
When it comes to rape the KSA thinks local and acts global. Not too long ago a KSA student in Canada was charged with multiple rapes and attempted rapes. He had his passport withheld but as if by magic he procured himself a new KSA passport with a phony name then made his way back to the KSA. To the KSA leadership the world is their little playground.
peter says
I tip my hat to this brave young lady .God bless her!
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a kingdom of callous brutal misogyny of the most heinously heartless kind there is. Be it the vicious, malicious and murderous Islamic practice of what is so very inappropriately called in the Islamic world “honor killing” and also the brutal cruel , savage Islamic tradition so unfittingly called “female circumcision “ which is reality of female genital mutilation. And other Islamic evils.
An example, on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the reference to the terrible girl’s school fire–a terrible Islamic atrocity.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali also talked about her girlhood in Saudi Arabia, and how every evening as it got dark and Muslim men returned home that a chorus of screams and moans emerged from neighboring apartments as men started beating their wives.
Norman Gardner says
Just showing their manhood by beating women, tough guys
Walter Sieruk says
In Sunni Saudi Arabia as well as in other Islamic nations there is now the insidious spreading of the brutal and cruel affront of Female Genital mutilationlation.
Now this hideous and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision’ has spread like an infectious disease , or a plague , even to the Western countries .
This heinous Islamic custom of misogyny has been exposed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. For on page 178 it reveals to the reader that “One of the most devastating practices to young girls of the Islamic world is female genital mutilation. Young girls have their clitoris removed without anesthesia…”
Indeed, they must be stopped !
gravenimage says
Your are right:
“Scale of FGM in Saudi Arabia Surprises Human Rights Advocates”
“We knew women and girls were being cut in Saudi Arabia but not to such a large extent.”
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/fgm-saudi-arabia-report/
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a kingdom of callous brutal misogyny of the most heinously heartless kind there is. Be it the vicious, malicious and murderous Islamic practice of what is so very inappropriately called in the Islamic world “honor killing” and also the brutal cruel , savage Islamic tradition so unfittingly called “female circumcision “ which is reality of female genital mutilation. And other Islamic evils.
An example, on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.