Woman Arrested for Being Raped

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A British woman who reported being raped has been arrested by Dubai police for violating Islamic law by having sex out of wedlock, and now faces a possible 6 year prison sentence.

Both the alleged rapist and the victim’s boyfriend have been charged with having sex with her outside of marriage as well.

The 23-year-old woman, a UK citizen of Pakistani descent and herself a Muslim, was visiting Dubai together with her 44-year-old fiancée, whom she is said to be due to marry.

The woman reported becoming drunk at a hotel bar, and subsequently being raped by a waiter who followed her into the toilets at the same establishment.

She and her partner resolved to report the attack, but police were apparently more concerned with her drinking and sexual relations with her future husband than the alleged crime, charging both her and her paramour with illegal drinking and having sex outside of marriage.

They each face a possible maximum sentence of six years.

The man accused of raping her, who claims she consented, faces charges as well, but for having sex out of marriage rather than for rape.

Police are said to have insisted on blood tests to prove she was drinking, but refused to medically examine her for evidence until the British embassy became involved.

Her cell-mate is quoted as saying police were less than sympathetic:

“She’s a British girl but a Muslim, so I think they were tougher on her because of that.

She was trying to report the rape but soon realised the policemen were more interested in how often she has sex with her boyfriend.”

Superficially modern Dubai upholds relatively mild standards of Sharia law, usually applied leniently to its many international visitors, though in other respects it possesses the same medieval social attitudes as seen in the rest of the Arab world.

Via The Telegaph.

Update: Dubai authorities claim the woman’s rape claim was spurious, and have generously withdrawn charges of sex (with her husband) outside wedlock after the woman managed to prove she was already married… The couple still face charges of imbibing alcohol.


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    Avatar of funsohng
    Comment by funsohng
    15:28 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    i love muslims

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    Comment by Yoshii-kun
    15:48 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I love their way of thinking;

    Rape is cool,
    but stay away from the booze and pre-marital sex.

    Welcome back to the stone age people, if you EVER want to visit a country with next-to-none rights for women.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:58 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Islam, once again with the crazy sex related headlines.

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    Comment by motaku96
    19:30 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Every country has crazy sex related headlines here.

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    Comment by Darkrockslizer
    22:01 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I hate muslims.

    Whom are they trying to fool, pretending to be a developed nation!?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:06 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    @darkrockslizer -
    dont be such a racist. i am muslim anon, so i resent that remark. zz.

    every country in the world is a developing country.

    the problem is, there are always some people in every country doing stupid things and always ending up making their country looking like a fag.

    in this case, the detectives, should be concerned with the rape incident, but take precedence in "out of marriage sex" act first. maybe it is because she is a UK muslim, like her cell mate added? if true, that's another case of racism, to my eyes.

    nevertheless, she aren't a pure muslim. she's corrupted by the ways of the world. but dont be so hateful. we're all corruptible, only to be defended by one own faith.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:30 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    "nevertheless, she aren't a pure muslim. she's corrupted by the ways of the world. but dont be so hateful. we're all corruptible, only to be defended by one own faith."

    See. Its views like that that make you people look so backwards. "Corrupted by the ways of the world" as if you're better than others for not drinking or having sex outside marriage. "only to be defended by one own faith" This is the kinda holier-than-thou attitude that you people use to justify hate crimes against other faiths as well as upon the more open minded of your own people.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:41 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    maybe people would not hate muslims if their faith wasn't stuck in the middle ages..!

    We are living in the 21st century for frikks sake, just where does any religion fit in here?

    To the christians out there I am still awaiting the apocalypse that was supposed to destroy the world in 2000 [sorry 2001 as the christian timeline messed that up, from 1bc to 1ad, no 0 duh...!]

    How can you put faith in a being that is currently 9 years late for his own second coming eh??

    Anyhow, i degress, muslims, ship em all back to the stinking pits that they came from, reason being?

    We cant tell the radicals from the so called normals, so lets be on the safe side.

    islam will take over the world , my frikkin ass it will....!

    Comment by Schrobby
    01:42 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Islam is one of the worst religions ever and this just shows it once again.

    The femnazis from Equality Now should start a vendetta against muslims and leave us 2D fans alone.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:21 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    ur mom is the worst

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:39 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    islam is not a race , so you cant be racist against religion . sod off muslis

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:48 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You're right they're a whole different species like the zerg and should be treated as such.

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    Comment by Darkrockslizer
    04:15 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    too late. their in ur base, killing ur d00ds

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:11 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The most important message in this article is that Islam makes rape cool.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:35 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    anon at 23:06, is it ok for you, a muslim, to be on sankaku complex? That's ok with your religion?

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:48 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    anon 00:41 -
    are you retarded? the only bunch of christians to believe that crap about the apocalypse years ago are the jws, and a couple of smaller branches. there's nothing in the bible, or the catholic, anglican etc faith that states that the 'apocalypse' had a given date.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:50 11/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Except you know, the big J's comments about how he will be back before his followers are dead of old age... so he's not really 9 years late for his second coming, he's close to 2000 years late.

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    Comment by naru-chan
    23:49 11/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    the place is shit because it isnt a secular state.
    People hate on anime fans cause its fiction and we get obsessed by it.
    Then what about God? (and i mean any god). What proof is there that Its real? NONE.
    So imo, religiouse faggs get out of sankaku cause you'll polute our haeven.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:12 12/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Anime is my religion. Conventions are my churches, and the panels are the teachings of the gods.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:19 20/01/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ Darkrockslizer
    L O L
    All your base are belong to us :P

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:48 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Rape isn't cool to Muslims - they sentence you to death for that in most parts of the Middle East - the problem is that they make it rather difficult to prove.

    But these kinds of idiotic actions pretty much ensure that the rich tourists will steer clear from Dubai, and they get to have the world's most expensive slums.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:18 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    How come they have the rape law then.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:49 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You mean how they rape every virgin girl before they execute them? And the police get to do it as a bonus to their job.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:28 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Consider also that their law doesn't see as rape forcing yourself on your wife(or wives), you basically own her like an object.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:16 15/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    To be convivted of rape under the Koran, there must be 4 male witnesses, or 8 female witnesses. That is the ONLY way a woman won't be prosecuted for unmarried sex or adultry (if married).

    You cannot rape your wife under the Koran. She is your property, and cannot deny her husband the use of her body for his sexual needs, unless she is already harmed and doing so would further hurt her.

    Women are ALWAYS property under the Koran. To their father, family, guardian, or husband.

    Welcome to the 14th century.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:26 08/05/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    They were more advanced than that in the 14th century.
    That religion is fit for cavemen or beasts only.

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    Comment by owi2000
    06:10 05/06/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The Anon @ 14:16 15/01/2010 had it exactly right. The views of those muslim countries are entirely backwards and screwed up by modern standards. Any thinking person should be able to see how flawed their reasoning is, and how unjust their laws are towards women. Sadly, because they are so pigheaded about their own beliefs, they will never recognize, much less criticize, their flawed laws and values.

    It is my own personal belief that the world would be a much better place if that whole part of the world were turned into a glass parking lot.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:56 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Isn't this what Republicans want in USA? Sounds to me like it's pretty close to the religious Republican's ideal.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:10 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    And here I thought they would be all about killing the rapist. Man you just can't tell with those pesky republicans

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    Comment by Gradius
    01:34 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    religion = worthless thing, good-for-nothing, except war, violence and death!

    Avatar of Gradius
    Comment by Gradius
    01:34 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I meant, "except for war"...

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:20 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    At least some people understand this.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:49 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    There is no God but Haruhi.I bear witness that Kyon is Her Prophet.Haruhi is Great.Glory to Her.

    Avatar of BlaqCat
    Comment by BlaqCat
    04:25 11/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think religion is great for keeping people in line. You need that fear of a higher existence to keep the masses under foot. It does get out of control with the power hungry zealots, but the alternative is more chaos and disorder (imo).

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:02 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    See? This is where the feminist groups should be. Stay the fuck away from our visual novels and actually do something yeah?

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    Comment by Minimoto
    02:03 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    ^Me

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:08 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    where is EN, shouldn't they be all over this?

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:12 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    they're probably busy keeping their heads on their bodies

    Avatar of Danielion
    Comment by Danielion
    11:33 11/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ the muslim anon:

    What's a muslim doing in a site like this? Wouldn't that b like breaking all commandments in one go?

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:56 10/03/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hey, nobodys perfect I wonder how many christians and jews are here.

    I'm not that anon your refering too btw.

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    Comment by Musashi75
    09:52 10/04/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    i dont get this. as turkish origin i have, one of the islamic nations who dont glorify their believes, is turkey. and if you are a rapist, you wont live long, rather get stabbed in prison by other prisoners..
    alcohol is ok if no one is disturbed and drink in the streets.

    there is prostitution controlled by government for the men, to avoid rape and other sexual perversions ^^. but most people get married and have sex in private

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:59 20/04/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Muslim scum...

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    Comment by Sithreis
    15:48 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    They're the care bears of religious factions apparently.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:55 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    this whole story sounds weird, it might be that she tried to frame someone
    she was drunk after all

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:34 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes, becaise framing WAITERs of rape always happens in dubai. Note my sarcasm. And she wasn't arrested for framing/making a false report either she arrested for getting raped.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:39 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Sounds weird? Prosecuting rape victims is not that uncommon in fundamentalist Muslim nations. Also been similar cases where a rape victim's own relatives have murdered her because of the "stain on her honor."

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:51 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I live in Dubai, I am from Dubai, don't try to teach me about my city
    I have never seen something like this happen before
    it just sounds fishy
    and no they don't arrest people for getting raped here

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:09 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Actually she was arrested for illegal drinking and having sex out of wedlock.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:10 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hadn't realized this was in Dubai (Which I've never thought of as a particularly fundamentalist country, though, admittedly, I'm not particularly well informed on the subject).

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:12 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Looks like your wrong, no matter where you claim you are from. LOL!

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:19 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hmm... http://thriftytraveling.com/going-to-dubai-better-know-the-law/

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    Comment by Godot
    18:49 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Its not rape because according to Sharia Law a woman has to get at least 4 male eyewitnesses if she was to report that she was raped.

    The "rape" happen in the women's toilet where the only other possible people who can enter are female, aside from the rapist of course. Means no witness, even more so 4 witnessess.

    So she is screwed because by sharia law its not rape and by default consensual.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:56 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Islam, you can marry lolis, rape women and blow stuff up. In theory it sounds perfect, but in practice... not so much.

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    Comment by Godot
    19:26 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    For the record in case you missed it. I was being cynical because thats one fucked up law. And an even more fucked up society who enforces it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:46 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Actually it's 4 witnesses to see she has sex with other men before they can call her an adulterer.

    That was what Mohammed intended but see how authorities twist to suit their own need, like justification for their tyrannical laws.

    And how EN will twist the laws to deprive others of a harmless past time.

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    Comment by First Posting Idiot
    16:12 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    If Britain doesn't help them, I will lose hope in rational thought around the world.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:35 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    They already let China execute one of theirs, so why help this time?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:48 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    It is Britain where they prosecute anti-burglar home owners.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:46 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    England is a bag of shit, I live here, we are weak ass mofo's who don't do anything to upset anyone else....

    Yes even at the cost of our own counrty men/women.

    Yes anon is correct we do prosecute homeowners for attacking burglars, in the UK if you are a criminal your life is ace, if you are law abiding, you drown in red tape and legislation.

    Doe me a favour sankaku posters think twice before you visit our country, I have being trying to emmigrate for the past 5 years....

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:05 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I hate muslims, together with biblefags!

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:42 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    so you are a commie?

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:54 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    communism isn't a bad IDEA...

    in any case it's better to say you hate fanatic/people in the extremes of the spectrum... because SURPRISINGLY there are reasonable muslims, christians, and so on... just it's rather rare...

    just wait about 20-50 years... religion will be pretty much cleared out (in certain parts) so long as we keep preaching to our kids that the only God/s they should care about is their parents... (unless you are a pedo, then normally the kids should run their asses out of there) and after your grandparents die o_o (assuming they were religious)

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:11 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    yea, communism is just corruptable, if you had batman as a leader then the world would be awesome

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:06 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'm sure there's been a comic that shows that not working out very well.

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    Comment by Miroku74
    21:22 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Communism is great.... in theory.

    In practice? Ehhhh... not so great. -_-

    Same with any ideology or religion. And when those ideals are taken to extremes... then we wind up where this world is today.

    I'm not trying to just point out one thing in particular but... Sharia is really fucked up. Blaming the victim for rape? What are they cutting their hashish with over there?!?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:50 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You forgot the eco-terrorists, they worship animals and plants.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:47 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    sorry anon, communism is not a religion it is a government type.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:46 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Well to how I see it is that, when something (religion for example) has fanatics. Those fanatics are the scum. When the SCUM get to lead the country... It's Hitler time! If you see what I mean. And when haven't Islamistic countries been run by these fanatics? The fanatics groups are also the violent ones. So even if they somehow get democrasy and get some sensible leaders the fanatics are going to ruin it. By riotin, suicide bombing and rebelling against their own goverment cause it does not support their way of seeing the world and way of handling things like women, infidels and what laws should be applied.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:02 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I very strongly dislike every religion. Without religion, there are no "sides". Without opposing sides there will be little or not conflict.

    I theorise that if everyone burnt their holy scriptures and picked up a science book, more effort would be put into advancing as a human race and there would be less pointless, religion based laws like sex without marriage, and less conflicts.

    Since the world has never been in a state such as this (science oriented) then I cannot be proved wrong until it happens.

    Just a note, Im not talking about communism, that only works in theory.

    I shall remain a scientist until sharia law is forced on me, at which time I will more than likely resort to terrorism xD

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:13 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You really, REALLY believe that without religion, people can't create shitty sides?

    Does skin color based racism ring any bells?

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:24 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    you are right. the problem is we take anything too far, science, religion, race, sex, what have you.

    Really none of this is nothing new, even in a scientific world extremes could develop, what happens if science where to prove that Mexicans lets say where dumber then blacks, a scientific world would then say that Mexicans couldn't do one thing and whites could. sorry for the playing the race card, but its the best I could do on such sort notice, the thing is that religion, science, race sex, political beliefs and what have you has to be tempered by rational thought, sadly Islam seems to have a problem with this, then again, so does Christianity, Judaism, even Buddhism has had its share of zealot adherents.

    The point is whenever mankind touches and ideology we corrupt it, its just our nature sadly, we have to do our best to fight it and its up to Muslims to fight the psychosis that runs rampant in their own religion, and also Islam maybe the fastest growing, but its also the most factional, Sunni's and Shiites spend more time killing each other and those of other Muslim factions then they do the West, so it will only be a matter of time before it consumes itself.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:04 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    "Does skin color based racism ring any bells?"

    Uh, whites were racist against black people because their reasoning was that blacks are dark skinned because they were tainted by some ancient sin and so are forever branded as unequal..though we can't say that racism is completely derived from religion, it's often justified using it. Homophobia? 'OMG THAT'S WHY GOD KILLED THOSE SODOMITES!!' That was even a mistranslation and the real problem was just that the people in SODOM were just mean in general, but look at what the priests wrote instead

    Without religion, there sure would be fewer sides and a lot fewer dumb rules.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:01 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I also remember science trying to prove blacks (and a number of other people) were retarded compared to white by means of the wonderful science of phrenology.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:32 13/03/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Religion has always been a good excuse for racism. Take the religion away, they'd still be racists.

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    Comment by Drakanor
    22:36 09/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Me too. I especially love their lulzy trolling.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:06 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    i love islam,
    especially their extremist
    fight against other major religion
    when the time is come
    the world will be divided
    there will be a war
    and maybe
    a gundam will appear

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:39 10/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    so who wants to go blow up the burj dubai tower? over 2000 feet tall. i bet if we take out the foundation on the right part of the building we can have it fall over and destroy a good chunk of the city.

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