(July 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm)Dotard Wrote: Others have postulated it is due to all the 'unreported' rapes occuring. AGAIN I ask, "If they are unreported, how would you know this?"
You really can't see how rape is underreported in Saudi Arabia? In an area where adulterers are stoned to death or sentenced to brutal lashings, you have no idea why rape would be underreported?
Rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...60847.html
Rape victim sentenced to 100 lashes: http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/201...100-times/
Saudi Males say it's reckless to travel with a man who is not a relative, or you will get raped: http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/14/rap...udi-males/
Pregnant women suffers 100 lashes for being raped: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...ltery.html
Girl receives 1 yr in jail and 100 lashes for adultery, and yet if you read the report, she was forced to have sex with 5 men. What do we call that? Oh right, rape!: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm...ome.regcon
19 year old was gang raped and give 90 lashes for the crime of "being alone with a man not her relative": http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256980,00.html
Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider talks with Al Jazeera about the corporal punishment sentence imposed on a rape victim being doubled after she spoke out about her case: http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2007/11/2...di-arabia/
Seems pretty fucking apparent to me why rape would be severely under reported.
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