Quote: author=383F323F365E0]Only a sick mind would come with such a statment. People like you should not be allowed to live in Australia.
That's an extreme response. Are yo saying Muslims from
Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan should be deported?
[Punishing rape victims under shari’a (Islamic law) is not restricted to Bangladesh.
In 2007, a Saudi court sentenced a young woman who had been gang raped to 90 lashes because at the time she was abducted at knife-point she was in a car with a man not related to her – a violation of Saudi law.
When the woman, who was 19-year-old at the time of the assault, appealed the verdict a higher court increased the sentence to 200 lashes and six months’ imprisonment. Amid an outcry – President Bush joined the criticism – the government first defended the court decision but eventually King Abdullah Monday pardoned her.
Last August a Filipina working as a janitor in Saudi Arabia was raped by a co-worker. When a medical examination found her to be pregnant, she was arrested. The woman has been detained since September, and miscarried her child in December.
With the pregnancy over, an alliance of organizations representing Philippine migrant workers voiced concern last week that she could be sentenced shortly for falling pregnant out of wedlock, with lashing the expected punishment.
Under Pakistan’s shari’a-based hudud ordinances, a rape victim is required to present four male Muslim witnesses of good standing to back her claim, failing which she can herself be charged with adultery.'