不信你看以下兩段摘自BBC的新聞報導:
A gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail. The rape victim was punished for violating Saudi Arabia's laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.
On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.
Quoted from BBC News
根據人權觀察組織的跟進報導，那些法官甚至還在法庭上羞辱的受害者，說受害者是個騙子，只因為她記不清楚事發日期。
最具諷刺性的還是咱們現今的世界警察，竟然只說應該指責(reprehensible)，但拒絕正式譴責(declined to condemn)有關判決，反而還不知所云的稱讚沙地政府願與美國合作反恐
（看AFP 法國新聞社今天的報導）。倒是加拿大政府明確直接的在第一時間表示譴責有關判決(Canadian Press, 2007-11-20)。
一般回教法院認為女性的強姦控訴其實是女性發生婚外性關係的藉口（或曰"非法交織"），除非她能證明，通過嚴格的證據標準，即這種性接觸是合法和性交是nonconsensual的(人權觀察組織, 2007-11-16)。
都什么時代了，回教法到現在還規定控告男性性侵犯的受害婦女必須找到四名虔誠的男性伊斯蘭教徒作為證人(Wikipedia, 2007-11-19)。這根本是強人所難，要受害者到哪去找男性證人啊？如果真有，那很有可能是輪姦案，而非單純的強姦案？即使真沒有參與，那四個男性至少也該被判共謀吧？要不，怎不阻止罪案的發生？
可憐這個少女，被輪姦了還得坐牢六個月并接受鞭刑，那七個輪姦犯的刑罰反倒比她的還要輕。即使她真能捱過那些刑罰，難保她之後不會面對其家人的Honor killing。Honor killing是另一個沒天理的回教習俗，允許男性以清理門戶為由殺戮他們認為有辱家聲的女性家庭成員，而且政府會以是自殺案或者是意外身亡來處理死者(wikipedia, 2007-11-17)。
鋻於沙地政府和美國的親密關係，看來也只有後者能打救該少女受害者了。唯有讓她移民到非回教國，她才會有機會重新站起，過有尊嚴的生活。
因此，我強烈譴責有關判決和法官，譴責世界各國特別是美國的漠不關心，譴責回教對女性的嚴重岐視，更譴責相關法律的存在！
推荐延伸閱讀：關於Honor Killing(中文) Women and Islam
資料來源：
1. BBC News (2007), "Saudi gang rape sentence 'unjust'", Middle East, BBC, 16th November, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7098480.stm
2. HRW (2007), "Saudi Arabia: Rape Victim Punished for Speaking Out", Human Rights Watch, 16th November, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/11/16/saudia17363_txt.htm.
3. AFP (2007), "Saudi punishment of rape victim 'reprehensible': US official", Agence France-Presse (法國新聞社), 20th November, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gy3PLJilNXO9-K5pN-G1uwCCyL_w
4. Canadian Press (2007),"Canada condemns Saudi sentence for gang-rape victim", Canadian Press, 20th November, http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hJJ9wPvcm3baNR7EZXYO44-x0MRg
5. Wikipedia (2007), "Legal and Criminal Matters", Woman and Islam, Wikipedia, 19th November,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_Islam#Legal_and_criminal_matters
6. Wikipedia (2007), "In Muslim Majority Countries", Honor Killing, Wikipedia, 17th November,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#In_Muslim_majority_countries
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