I’ve
written several blogs (August 26, July 22) on the dangers of Shariah Law coming
to America. Perhaps this blog posting reported
by examiner.com will convince some
more of you as to the very real threat this Islamic law governing all of life
is to America’s rule of law.
Imagine
a rape victim’s sentence being increased because her lawyer had spoken out. That is precisely what happened in a Saudi
Court. When the defense attorney for a
raped Saudi Arabian woman appealed a Shariah Court decision that the 90-lash
sentence against his client was unjust, all that was succeeded was the more
than doubling of the punishment meted out to the woman who was raped and beaten
by seven men … as reported September 22, 2013 by the women’s rights-centered
news portal The Clarion Project.
A yet
to be publicly identified female gang rape victim was initially found guilty
and sentenced to 90-lashes for violating the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA)
rigid Islamic law on segregation of the sexes.
The Kingdom’s General Court determined the woman sat in an automobile
with an old school chum to whom she was no blood relation; hence, she violated
Islamic Shariah Law of gender segregation.
The victim’s lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem had plead to the international
community for help in freeing his client or at least pressuring the Saudi
government to grant an appeal. And an
appeal he got … along with an increase in sentence from 90-lashes to 200 along
with a six month prison sentence tacked on for good measure.
The KSA
Ministry of Justice implied the victim's sentence was increased because her
lawyer had spoken out to the world’s news outlets. As carried by the government’s official Saudi Press Agency: “For whoever has an
objection on verdicts issued, the system allows to appeal without resorting to
the media.” The statement also said that
the “charges were proven” against the woman for having been in a car with a
strange male, and repeated criticism of her lawyer for talking “defiantly” about
the judicial system, saying “it has shown ignorance.”
The
victim was attacked in 2006 while she was attempting to retrieve a photograph
from a male high school student she knew.
While in her acquaintance’s vehicle, two other men got in the car and
drove the woman and her friend to a secluded area where five other men met
them. It was in this remote area where
all seven men raped the woman. The Clarion Project also cited that the
woman’s friend was in turn “attacked” by the assailants, but it is unclear if
he was beaten, raped or both.
Attorney
Abdul Rahman al-Lahem has since been banned from further defending the woman. The KSA has confiscated his law license and
summoning him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.
Shariah
law is completely antithetical to the U.S. Constitution. Remember that Islam is an ideology, but under
shariah, it is law. People who don’t
understand this have no idea of the ramifications of America falling to Shariah
law. They may have a hard time with
Christians wanting to say the Pledge of Allegiance with the words, “One
nation under God” or to have public displays of the Ten Commandments or
nativities etc. But these same people
have no idea of what life would be like under Islamic rule and Shariah
law. One only has to look at countries
such as Saudi Arabia, or see groups such as the Afghani Taliban to know that
shariah is discriminatory, and degrading toward, in the Islamic term, infidels.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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