Deserve It?

You might remember <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2973-Under-The-Lash.html">my rant</a> about the Saudi Arabian justice system and how it punished the victim of a rape. Now it turns out there is a little more to the story. According to the Saudi Justice Ministry, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SAUDI_RAPE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">she deserved to be raped</a> because she was an adulteress.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry said a girl who it sentenced to jail time and flogging after being gang raped by seven men was an adulteress who invited the attack because at the time she was partially dressed in a parked car with her lover.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo now it's all of a sudden all right since she confessed to adultly? She invited it? She deserved it? Any time I hear that some women "deserved" to be raped, I get so damned mad it isn't even funny. No person "deserves" to have such a thing done to them and no matter how the Saudi justice ministry wants to try to spin it. Oh, I know, the spin they are using is that she is being punished for the adultery, not the rape. <br />n<br />nNow, I'm not a big fan of adultery, but to punish it with prison time and 200 lashes is also wrong. Then to say she "invited" the rape by being partially undressed? How barbaric. <br />n<br />nPunishing the victim of rape, no matter how you want to spin it, is wrong, period, end of story. <br />n<br />n<strong>A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. Muhammed Iqbal</strong>