7,000 LASHES

7,000 lashes. Each. Pretty severe punisment. They may not survive, even though the lashes will be given in batches. Even if they do live through this, they will be crippled for life. But in the Kingdom, just business as usual.
FROM NEWS.COM.AU:
From correspondents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
October 04, 2007 08:56pm
TWO men in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to 7000 lashes each after being convicted of sodomy and have received their first round of punishment in public, a newspaper said today.
The men, who were not identified, were meted out an unspecified number of lashes in public in the the southwestern city of Al-Bahah on Tuesday evening, the Al-Okaz daily reported.
They were then returned to prison where they are to be held until the full punishment is completed, the newspaper added, without saying how many sessions this would involve.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which metes out strict punishment based on sharia, or Islamic law.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the kingdom, with public beheading the common form of execution.
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And then the Kingdom has the gall to critize the treatment of Muslims in Europe. Europe, the mosr dhimmified place on earth. Where Muslims are given wellfare, their "special needs" are accomidated, and no one is allowed, by law, to critize anything about their barbaric religion.

FROM ARABNEWS.COM:
HRC to Address Muslim Rights Issues in Europe
Raid Qusti, Arab News —
RIYADH, 4 October 2007 — Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) will urge its counterparts in the European Union to ask their governments not to link terrorism to Islam and also to issue regulations to protect Muslims from prejudice and discrimination because of their faith.
According to a source at HRC, the government-funded rights body will also address various human rights issues in Europe: when Muslims are unjustly interrogated, treated with disrespect, physically or mentally abused, or not allowed to practice their faith freely such as Muslim girls being prevented from wearing the hijab (head cover) in some schools.
The points are expected to be addressed during HRC’s official participation in the Second Arab-European Dialogue on Human Rights and Terrorism, which will take place in Copenhagen on Oct.21-23. “The dialogue is significant because it is being held in Denmark, where the controversy started over the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons,” the source told Arab News.
HRC President Turki Al-Sudairi has assigned two HRC officials, Khaled Al-Obeid and Ali Al-Mustaneer, to represent the organization in the dialogue.
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