I don’t know if I should cry or scream.
In the Arabia predating Islam, young girls were buried alive. Several centuries and a prophet later, the region shows little promise of reform. Now, young girls are raped by their fathers, burnt and tortured to death.
I can, with some effort, ignore the fact that the perpetrator is a Muslim and a cleric at that, because perversion, cruelty and evil transcend boundaries, religions, and professions. But, I shall forever begrudge it if Fayhan Al Ghamdi could atone for this crime by paying USD 50,000 to the mother, and worse, that any morally bankrupt judge, could sign off Ghamdi’s freedom, by negating everything the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) stood for, and instead quoting a weak hadith, that enables him to overlook the transgression.
I am ashamed to say that while most Muslims look towards Saudi Arabia for religious guidance, the Kingdom, in many ways tolerates or even encourages the hate, bigotry, stereotyping and abuse practiced by many Saudis in the name of Islam. I’m baffled as to how a society, that practices rigid gender segregation, even entrusts a father, with the care and custody of a minor girl? Isn’t incest and rape a crime that is worthy of stoning to death in the opinion of many Islamic scholars? Can you pay blood money for your own child?
I demand justice for Lama (#Ana Lama) – an exemplary punishment that I wish could be as gruesome as the treatment this little girl received.
Readers, spread the word and sign this petition. If you are not with Lama, you are with Fayhan Ghamdi.
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God knows for how long will we be suffering at the hands of these moron mullahs.
We’ll suffer until we educate and regulate them. Formal religious training should not begin until a person is officially an adult and capable of using his mind. A person whose entire grooming and education is based on guilt and excessive deprivation, will eventually learn to lead a life of duplicity.
True. But sadly our governments doing nothing in this regards, they rather give into these bigots because of political gains.
And that’s precisely why I think, democracy is a curse. I must do a post on this too 🙂
Haha that is another debate. I believe bad democracy is better than good dictatorship. 🙂
well … only if you think, every one is worth listening to. I know, I’m being smug now 🙂
This is a free world, and in democracy alone you enjoy the freedom of saying what you want to say. 😉