[Impotent Rage]

Saudi cleric who raped and killed daughter receives small fine
An Islamic cleric in Saudi Arabia has paid just £31,500 in 'blood money' after reportedly raping, torturing, and killing his 5-year-old daughter



Saudi Arabian media sources have reported that an Islamic cleric who raped, tortured and killed his 5-year-old daughter, has been let off with a small fine, avoiding a jail sentence.

Lama al-Ghamdi was the daughter of Fayhan al-Ghamdi, an Islamic preacher who makes regular appearances on television. Under Saudi law, al-Ghamdi has had to pay only £31,500 in 'blood money', even after confessing to the heinous crime.

Gulf News reports that 5-year-old Lama was admitted to hospital on December 25, 2011 with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. She died last October 22.

Activists from women's rights groups said that the father had doubted Lama’s virginity and had her checked up by a medic. A social worker from the hospital where Lama was admitted said the girl’s back was broken and that she had been raped “everywhere”.

According to the victim’s mother, hospital staff told her that her “child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.”

Ghamdi has apparently paid 200,000 riyals ($50,000; £31,500) in "blood money" - a sum that can be paid to relatives of a murder victim and which, if accepted, can replace a death sentence.

Human rights activists have indicated that judicial leniency towards male abusers reflects the highly problematic nature of the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia.

Currently, women in Saudi Arabia are considered minors, and all are automatically assigned to the care and judgment of their most immediate male relative.

So far, three Saudi activists have raised objections to the ruling which is based on Saudi laws that state that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.

Justice: Islamic style. Allahu Akbar!

[mcpronoun]

[Spitfire Dynamo]

Diya: Good old sharia law, eh?

[kellyhound]

such a fucked up country, i will never visit.

[banana dick]

islam is the religion of misogyny and rape.

[bdjackass318]

Wow what a piece of shit.

[ldelgadillo]

this is fucking insane, I am soooooooo angry. the women of this country need to rise up and rage against these bastards.

[Megamel29]

There are no words for how horrid the whole situation is. Who exactly did the money go to? The mother?

[kellyhound]

In Saudi Arabia, when a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the prescribed blood money rates are as follows:

100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish man
25,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish woman
6,666 riyals if a man of any other religion
3,333 riyals if a woman of any other religion

The amount of compensation is based on the percentage of responsibility. Blood money is to be paid not only for murder, but also in case of unnatural death, interpreted to mean death in a fire, industrial or road accident, for instance, as long as the responsibility for it falls on the causer.

[Bletch]

Fat fuck, go to hell vermin!
And go hell for giving the maggot a shit punishment! Sent him to Devils Island!