Numerous rape victims are in prison in Pakistan as well. From the perspective of Islamic law, if they tempted men to rape them, they are at fault, and must be punished. The rape must also have been public, since four male Muslim witnesses are required to have witnessed the act in order to establish it in Sharia court (cf. Qur’an 24:4, 24:14).
“The land where raped women end up being at fault: Sexual violence victims ‘can easily become the accused’ in Qatar due to government’s extreme view of Islamic law, campaigners warn,” by Ian Gallagher, Mail On Sunday, October 9, 2021:
…Campaigners say victims of sexual violence ‘can easily become the accused’ in the authoritarian Gulf state, due to the government’s extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
Many cases have emerged of men being taken at their word claiming sex was consensual, leaving the accuser facing charges of having sex outside of marriage. Punishments for the crime of ‘zina’ – any act of illicit intercourse – normally involve a year in prison and, if the woman is Muslim, up to 100 lashes.
Rothna Begum, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, told The Mail on Sunday of her fears that zina laws will be brought into focus at next year’s World Cup….
Around the time Qatar began lobbying for the rights to the World Cup, stories about women punished under zina laws stopped appearing in state-run papers. Since then, Qatar has sought to gloss over anything that might present a negative image.
In March, a report by Human Rights Watch highlighted discrimination through the male guardianship system, which requires them to seek male approval to marry, study or travel. It says Qatari women face ‘deep discrimination in almost all aspects of their lives’. Examples abound. A British woman abandoned by her Qatari husband told the MoS that she is unable to return to the UK with their children because he refuses to give his permission.
The woman, who lives in Doha, said: ‘Society and the law are on his side. It always favours the man, yet he was abusive during our marriage and beat me up for some perceived slight. He hasn’t seen me or the kids for years yet still exerts this power over me. I am trapped here. I tried to get a divorce but it was dismissed. If I went to the airport with my children, I would be arrested.’
In 2019, Noof al-Maadeed, then 21, escaped Qatar after years of domestic abuse. She said she was ‘only allowed to go to school and back. Anything else [and I could] expect a beating’.
Unmarried women under 25 cannot travel abroad without the permission of their male guardian. But Maadeed took her father’s phone and used it to process an exit permit, then climbed out of her bedroom window to go to the airport. She flew to Ukraine then the UK, where she claimed asylum….
Infidel says
It’s absolutely tragic that the previous administration – forget this one – didn’t throw its lot w/ the Saudis and their vassals in imposing sanctions on Qatar in 2017, when it had the chance. That country is now jihad central for the world: unlike Turkey or Pakistan, they’re capable of underwriting whatever jihad or dawa activity they wanna finance. The Saudis have at least stopped, be it due to their budget crunch or internal reforms
gravenimage says
Infidel, I agree that the US should have condemned Qatar–but not because the vile Saudi Arabia demanded it. The treatment of women is at least as bad there.
Ecosse1314 says
So proud that the next football world cup is being held in this bastion of democracy.
At least Scotland will be boycotting it( though not by choice)
gravenimage says
Yes–just appalling that Qatar ever got the World Cup. They have been using slave labor to build the stadium and other facilities.
revereridesagain says
There are women in American who will now be forced to have the rapist’s baby. Hey, maybe she wore her skirt too short…
somehistory says
Better that than the poor babies being forced to be early born and butchered for parts while their heart is still beating.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/nazi-level-experiments-faucis-nih-funded-research-results-in-babies-scalped-alive/
john smith says
If this is true Somehistory then what a deeply disturbing link. I find it difficult to believe that such evil experiments could be happening in the U.S.
somehistory says
Evidently, it is true. I saw a link earlier with a petition to sign to try to put an end to it.
https://secure.giveworks.net/operationrescue/iris_fauci_study/IRI2604?tid=980de227cb8e018fc1a7d49322271f16
Another link
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/criminal-university-of-pittsburgh-admits-hearts-beating-while-harvesting-aborted-infants-kidneys/
It certainly sickened and angered me to read of these things going on. And being paid for by people who have no clue due to fauci having access to taxpayer money. The money is the least of it, however. It’s murder for profit.
john smith says
Thank you for these other links, and yes, it does appear to be true. How awful, its also sickened and angered me. I never thought I’d see the day when such things would be happening in the US of all places.
Keith O says
Could be worse, in a South American country (can’t remember which one), if a woman has a miscarriage and loses her baby she is charged with murder and will in all likelihood go to jail for life for this “crime”. This is a result of the Catholic Church and their laws/beliefs.
For me it’s not just Islam’s treatment of women that grinds my gears.
As a Pagan, we revere women, because we know that without them we would not exist. Male dominated religions such as Islam and Christianity have an entirely different view of the feminine aspect of creation.
Ecosse1314 says
Please give us more details about this country. I have never heard of a woman being jailed for a miscarriage. Also please tell me in which South American country the RC church writes the criminal legal system
Keith O says
ECOSSE1314, El Salvador is one of the countries that jails women for miscarriage as well as still births.
The Catholic church holds a huge amount of power to influence law makers in some South American countries.
A simple google search will demonstrate these facts.
somehistory says
If people who clam to be Christian, follow the actions, words, commands, teachings, example of Christ, then women will be treated with love and respect, and as equal in the eyes of God.
Jesus showed much love and respect for women and said the second commandment is to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” and said if people obeyed this command and the first one, “You must love God with the whole heart, soul, mind and strength,” they will have done all they need to do.
The Golden Rule: “Do to others as you wish to have them do to you.”
His Apostles also gave instructions on how the Christian is to treat women. A man doesn’t go about hitting himself, or in other ways hurting himself, and therefor should not do so to his wife…or any female…
Anyone who abuses, degrades, or treats women as less, is not following Jesus, and is not obeying His commandments.
mortimer says
Reply to revere: Western women who vacation in any Muslim country can expect horrendous results. Being a woman is bad enough in a Muslim country, but being a woman and a KAFIR is much more of target for abuse.
Ecosse1314 says
Reply to Keith O. A simple google check will show that RCs in El Salvador are not even in the majority.
The woman who suffered the miscarriage was actually charged with ” procuring an abortion” even though she evidently tripped.
Btw that well known pagan Heinrich Himmler was not renowned for his gentleness. So please stop these broad generalisations based on your own bigotry.
Keith O says
You really do have the blinkers on, don’t you!
There are at least 25 women in El Salvador who have been charged with murder for miscarriage and still birth.
And as for my supposed bigotry, these facts were first brought to my attention by a report from a womens rights group about 5 years ago.
And your selective google searches were obviously tainted by your personal iews and misconceptions.
Terry Gain says
Isn’t Islam wonderful. Some still insist it’s a religion.
Infidel says
We were just having this argument in the thread about the USAF helping airlift IS women & children to Germany
gravenimage says
Islam being a religion does *not* mean it is wonderful–or anything other than horrific.
somehistory says
I question why the woman “fears” that this will come into “focus.”
“Rothna Begum, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, told The Mail on Sunday of her fears that zina laws will be brought into focus at next year’s World Cup….”
Isn’t it better the more people around the world know about it?
islam is evil from top to bottom, inside and out, full to its core (its al queda) of demonic filth, feculent in its entirety. Those who impose such evil on others are the sons of demons, sons of satan and they will reap as they are sowing.
Walter Sieruk says
This awful affront of punishing the women who were rape victims and not the evil men raped them shows the cruel injustice of Islam as well as the brutal misogyny of this false religion.
The Bible reads “The Lord hates those two things : punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.”
Proverbs 17:15. [E.R.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
Islam with its vicious anti-female demonic spirit will with Islamic courts will be totally unfair to both girls and women and be so unjust and cruel to punish the female victims. Meanwhile the Islamic courts will always be looking for an excuse to let the vile and evil men who had violated them “off the hook.”
As it has been well and truly said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
GFF says
If I may be cheeky enough to parody Mr Spencer,
‘the silence of the feminists is deafening’.
Too busy checking out that darn glass ceiling.
Here’s a thought………boycott the games………..yeah, that’ll be the day.
tim gallagher says
Islam is one very sick, very evil religious ideology as this report shows. The scum bags who devised this load of crap called islam were a bunch of very evil and barbaric scum. On Qatar, here in Australia, I just heard on the news on the radio that Qatar have released an evil maggot who murdered three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan some years back. The murderer had been pretending to work with the Australian troops, but was a taliban member. He murdered the soldiers back at the base while they were playing cards. Not sure why this man ended up in jail in Qatar, (actually I just heard that he was under house arrest in Qatar) but the barbarians in Qatar have released him and he is apparently now back in Afghanistan and has rejoined the Taliban. Some of these countries like Qatar seem a bit more modern, but, if it is a Muslim country, it is bound to be a barbaric load of crap.
shoehorn says
So, what’s ‘orthodox Islamic law’ (Guardian link) in Pakistan, is ‘extreme interpretation of Islamic law’ in Qatar. I think I get it?
OLD GUY says
Punish the victim, it was her fault. Not unusual even in America. We have way more interest and laws that protect the rights of the criminal than the victim. The criminal gets free legal assistance, a reasonably quick trial and years of appeals all paid for by the Tax payers. Then the Tax payers also pays for the prosecution, court cost and the Appeal process and the cost for the prison and health care for the criminal. The LAWYERS love it. What does the VICTIM get? Years of stress and strain following the legal systems outrageous care of the criminal. Always follow the MONEY.
gravenimage says
Qatar: Rape victims accused of sex outside marriage, face up to a year in prison and 100 lashes
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Just horrifying. And this has happened to Western as well as local women there. Just reporting a rape makes you guilty of “Zina” (unlawful sex outside marriage). That the sex was forced makes no difference.
Qatar *never* should have been given the World Cup.