Forced to sign a confession for having coffee with a man

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06/02/2008

RIYADH (AFP)

Saudi woman jailed for illegal Starbucks meeting

A Saudi businesswoman was detained and strip-searched by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop with an unrelated man, taboo in the country, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The English-language Arab News quoted a 40-year-old financial consultant, named only as Yara, as saying she was arrested on Monday by members of the powerful Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

She said she was holding a business meeting with the man in a branch of Starbucks in Riyadh, in a section reserved for families. Saudi law requires that unrelated men and women be segregated in public.


Yara said she was taken to a Riyadh prison, strip-searched and forced to sign a confession to having been caught alone with a unrelated man -- an illegal act in the kingdom which enforces a strict Islamic moral code.

"I had no other choice" but to sign, said the married mother of three. "I was scared for my life ... I was afraid that they would abuse me or do something to me."

She said the religious police, known as the Muttawa, released her several hours later after her husband, Hatim, intervened.

"I look at this as if she had been kidnapped by thugs," said Hatim.

The paper said the man with whom Yara had coffee, an unnamed Syrian financial analyst, was also arrested and remains in custody.

Saudi Arabia's 5,000-strong religious police have recently been investigated over a number of deaths that occurred while they raided homes or kept people in custody.

The interior ministry issued a decree in May 2006 aimed at reining in the Muttawa by requiring them not to interrogate detained suspects, as they had previously done, but to hand them over to the regular police instead.

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this is the islam and moslamess

[El-Basha]

Yes my dear smile
That is how moslems treat their women under Shari Laws

A Saudi businesswoman was detained and stripsearched by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop with an unrelated man, taboo in the country, a newspaper reported on Tuesday

What about the man … whom the women was seating with him … why he was not charged as well…. Why women are always the victim in Saudi Arabia under Shari Laws.
I remember 2 months ago an international out to the King of Saudi to pardon a Moslem women (Raped Victim) from charges and flogging after she was raped by 7 men in Saudi Arabia ….. the reason is that she was with a man who was not a relative to the women in a CAR when they were attacked by 7 animals and both the male & the female was raped….below is the full story and the source
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=327145
Saudi king pardons rape victim women
Tuesday Dec 18 06:00 AEDT
"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a gang-rape victim whose sentencing to 200 lashes by a Saudi court provoked an international out, a Saudi newspaper reported on Monday.
The daily al-Jazirah cited Justice Minister Abdullah bin Mohammad al-Sheikh as saying the king had the right to issue pardons if it was in the public interest.
The minister did not confirm if the amnesty, reported from unnamed sources, was correct.
The Saudi monarch usually issues pardons to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival which begins on Wednesday, but such announcements are published on the official Saudi Press Agency.
The 19-year-old Shi'ite woman was abducted and raped along with a male companion by seven men last year in a case that has drawn criticism from around the world.
Ruling according to Saudi Arabia's strict reading of Islamic law, a court originally sentenced the woman to 90 lashes for being alone with an unrelated man and the rapists to prison terms of up to five years.
The Supreme Judicial Council last month increased the sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison and ordered the rapists to serve between two years and nine years in prison"

Where are the women rights in the Islam….. they are still using lashes. Against humans, and against women victims….. what justice is this
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[menaa2005]

Where are the women rights in the Islam

Here is some of women's rights in Islam


Menstruation is a sickness. Don't have sex with menstruating women. 2:222

Have sex with your women whenever and as often as you like. 2:223

Women have rights that are similar to men, but men are "a degree above them." 2:228

A woman is worth one-half a man. 2:282

Marry of the women two, or three, or four. 4:3

Males are to inherit twice that of females. 4:11

Lewd women are to be confined to their houses until death. 4:15

You may not forcibly inherit women, unless they flagrantly lewd. 4:19

Instructions for exchanging wives 4:20

"All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
You can't have sex with married women, unless they are slaves obtained in war (with whom you may rape or do whatever you like). 4:24

Men are in charge of women, because Allah made men to be better than women. Refuse to have sex with women from whom you fear rebellion, and scourge them. 4:34

Don't pray if you are drunk, dirty, or have touched a woman lately. 4:43

Women are feeble and are unable to devise a plan. 4:98

They invoke in his (Allah's) stead only females. 4:117

A man cannot treat his wives fairly. 4:129

"Unto the male is the equivalent share of two females." 4:176

When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6

Lot offers his daughters to a mob of angel rapers. 11:78

Lot offers his daughters to a mob of angel rapers. 15:71

When the doom of Allah comes, pregnant women will suffer miscarriages, nursing mothers with forget their babies. 22:1-2

You don't have to be modest around your wives or your slave girls "that your right hand possess." 23:6

If you accuse an honorable women of adultery, be sure to bring four witness. Otherwise you will receive 80 lashes. 24:4

A husband can accuse his wife of adultery with only one witness. 24:6

Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 24:31

If Muhammad's wives are good, Allah will give them "an immense reward." 33:28-29

The wives of Muhammad will be punished double for lewdness. (And that is easy for Allah.) 33:30

The wives of Muhammad are not like other women. They must not leave their houses. 33:32-33

When Allah or Muhammad decide that a man and a woman should marry, they must marry. 33:36

Allah gave Zeyd to Muhammad in marriage. This was so that all Muslims would know that it's OK to marry your adopted son's ex-wife. 33:37

Allah says it is lawful for Muhammad to marry any women he wants. 33:50-51

If men must speak to Muhammad's wives they must speak from behind a curtain. And no one must ever marry one of his wives. 33:53

But it's OK for Muhammad's wives to talk with certain people. 33:55

Women must cover themselves when in public. 33:59

Those who "did wrong" will go to hell, and their wives will go to hell with them (no matter how they behaved). 37:22-23

But the single-minded slaves of Allah will enjoy a Garden filled with lovely-eyed virgins. 37:40-48

Female companions await those who enter the Gardens of Eden on the Day of Reckoning. 38:52

Allah will reward faithful Muslims after they die with "fair ones with wide, lovely eyes." 44:54

Allah will reward those in the Garden with beautiful wives with wide, lovely eyes. 52:20

Those who disbelieve in the afterlife give female names to angels. 53:27

Allah will give those in the Garden women of modest gaze whom neither man nor jinn have touched before them. 55:56

Allah will reward believing men with "fair ones" (beautiful women) in heaven. 55:71-72

Those in the Garden will be attended by immortal youths with wide, lovely eyes. 56:17-23

Allah made virgins to be lovers and friends to those on his right hand. 56:36-37

Your wives and children are your enemies. They are to you only a temptation. 64:14-15

Instructions for divorcing your wives. 65:1-6

Allah's rules for divorcing wives that have not yet reached puberty. 65:4

Muhammad's wives need to be careful. If they criticize their husband, Allah will replace them with better ones. 66:5

The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 66:10

Doom is about to fall on all disbelievers. Only worshippers (Muslims) and those who preserve their chastity (except with their wives and slave girls) will be spared from "the s of hell" that are "eagar to roast." 70:1-30

You don't have to be chaste around your wives or your slave girls. 70:29-30

Abu Lahab will die and be plunged in flaming Fire. His wife will have on her neck a halter of palm fiber. 111:1-5

[El-Basha]

Thanks Mina2005
good work, your detail answer to my question
This is why women are victims in Islamic countries and under sharia Law

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dear El-basha
do you think there is any different between the man and the women in islam