Girl from Qatif Rape Victim

A girl from Qatif was gang raped and the Saudi's blamed her by initially sentencing her to 90 lashes. Is this not barbaric? At least they aren't going to kill her, and they're reviewing her case because of the moral outrage of Westerners. This is exactly what Ayaan Hirsi Ali said in her book Infidel. The girl is blamed if she is raped because men cannot help themselves. Ahhh, poor, poor men. They can't help themselves. Bullshit! Absolute bullshit. At least the men were sent to prison also. According to many Muslims, women should guard their pussies and it's their fault if raped. I am so outraged by this I am beside myself, and this moral outrage is applicable to the Christian faith. Here is the story...

Known only as the "Girl from Qatif," the victim said she was a newlywed who was meeting a high school friend in his car to retrieve a picture of herself from him when the attack occurred in the eastern city of Qatif in 2006.

While she was in the car, two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area where others waited, and then she was raped.

The ministry's account Saturday alleged that the woman and her lover met in his car for a tryst "in a dark place where they stayed for a while."

The girl was initially sentenced to prison and 90 lashes for being alone with a man not related to her. An appeals court then doubled the lashes to 200.

Again, I have nothing but disgust for the religion of Islam for this.

But there are similar texts in the Old Testament that sanction rape and "honor" killings. A female captive in war was forced to be an Israelite man’s wife (Deuteronomy 21:10-14). That's rape! If a virgin who was pledged to be married was raped, she was to be stoned along with her rapist (Deuteronomy 22:23-24), while if a virgin who was not pledged to be married was raped, she was supposed to marry her rapist (Deuteronomy 22:28-29).

This is all barbaric. At least there are signs that Islam is changing, since they are not going to kill her. How long before they become more civilized like Christians have become in free democracies, I cannot say. But they have similar sacred texts, and Islam is at least more consistent in applying them.

I know. I know. The easy way out is for Christians to deny they are living under the Old Covenant. But big fucking deal (I told you I was outraged)! Why would any good intelligent God ever santion something like this in the first place? I could never worship such a God, and I could never gerrymander around the Biblical texts that have caused such pain. I would at least have to be HONEST with those texts. God sanctioned rape and honor killings against women who did nothing wrong! That God cannot all of a sudden change his moral stripes and say he's perfectly good and loving in Jesus. He's barbaric to the core.