Saudi Arabian cleric tortures, murders 5 year old daughter. Gets off with fine.

[Outlaw]

Reading this could make you sick to your stomach. Precede at your own risk.

In Saudi Arabia an Islamic cleric who admits to raping, torturing and killing his daughter received a fine but no jail time for his heinous crime. Saudi media reports that the father paid 200,000 riyals ($50,000 US) in “blood money” for his crime, but will not be required to serve any time in prison.

In response to the heinous crime, and lack of justice for five-year old victim Lama al-Ghamdi, the women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif and others issued a press release on Feb 2, and launched a Twitter campaign using the hashtags #AnaLama (Arabic for "I am Lama") and #IamLama, demanding legislation criminalizing violence against women and children.

Fayhan al-Ghamdi, the victims father and a popular Islamic preacher who has made numerous television appearances promoting Islam, confessed to the heinous crime. Ghamdi told Saudi officials he used cables and a cane on his five-year-old daughter, leaving her with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. In addition, one of Lama’s fingernails had been torn off. Hospital staff reports the child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.

Reports indicate the father had doubted his five-year old daughter's virginity.

Lama al-Ghamdi died last October. The amount her father was fined for the brutal rape, torture and murder, would have been doubled if Lama had been male. In Saudi Arabia, Islamic law is interpreted to be that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.

Human rights activists point out that judicial leniency towards male abusers and murderers reflects the highly problematic nature of the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia. Currently all women in Saudi Arabia are considered minors, and all are automatically assigned to the care and judgment of their most immediate male relative. This system of male guardianship gives the male relatives the power to sell girls legally into child marriages and to ban adult women from work, travel and obtaining medical operations.

http://www.examiner.com/article/saud...hter-pays-fine

Related:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi cleric says even girls who have not yet reached puberty should be covered from head to toe, citing instances of child molestation in the ultraconservative kingdom and elsewhere.

Sheik Abdullah Daoud made the remarks on the satellite channel al-Majd. He says many viewers watching the program had probably come across instances of sexual harassment as children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ear-burka.html

[Zetanio]

I just threw up in my mouth reading this. Fuck.

[Churchill]

That's just the middle east for ya

[Ragnus]

THE FUCK MAN

[Khajit]

Not only is that man a psycho, he's also a fucking idiot. If you have at any point a reason/concern about your 5 year old daughter not being a virgin it's not the daughter that you're supposed to want tortured.

[tyven]

surprised he tried to burn her rectum closed, i feel like once you have reached that point, there is just no going back.

[Outlaw]

Not only is that man a psycho, he's also a fucking idiot. If you have at any point a reason/concern about your 5 year old daughter not being a virgin it's not the daughter that you're supposed to want tortured.

In the mind of Muslim extremists it's always the woman's fault. Always. The fact that these nut jobs would apply this to a child to just melts my brain.

[kuronosan]

I'm starting to grow really tired of this religious law bullshit. There's no excuse for murdering innocent people other than rich powerful assholes wanting to get away with it.

[Andalusian girls]

classic Sa‘udiyyah

[Tricen]

I mean, 50k$ is kind of a lot. Seems reasonable. Right? Can you devils advocate this? No? Hm

[Raldo]

You can't sell your daughter if she's dead. This man needs to think more like a capitalist.

[noblemountain]

That's just the middle east for ya

Looks like business as usual to me.

[ronin sparthos]

Man why arent we calling out Saudi Arabia on their human rights abuses again? This country is clearly radical and in the hands of terrorists.

[Ragnus]

We have military bases there and they're the one of the, if not the, largest oil producer in the world.

[Lucavi]

Not only is that man a psycho, he's also a fucking idiot. If you have at any point a reason/concern about your 5 year old daughter not being a virgin it's not the daughter that you're supposed to want tortured.

Pervert and a freak hiding behind religious suspicions. Man deserves death. Man will not get death in wacky religious land where men rule everything and women are scum.

So sad that shit like this happens on this world, but I know it's been happening since we as a species have been on it. You don't even see that kind of trash in the wild; not for such shitty reasons.

[archibaldcrane]

and they're the one of the, if not the, largest oil producer in the world.

Not for long!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...2020/?page=all

[archibaldcrane]

Shouldn't have been a woman in a muslim zone.

[AidenCarby]

Kinda just tired of these people and their bullshit tbh.

[ronin sparthos]

We have military bases there and they're the one of the, if not the, largest oil producer in the world.

So this isnt about freedom and democracy??

[Callisto]

man you can murder your daughter for not even really doing what you crazily thought you did there, but I can't even backhand my g/f for eating all the leftovers and never doing the goddamn dishes, I'm moving out east