Are we shameless enough to post a week-old story as “news” just because it exemplifies how badly the poor and marginalized fare under militant Islam? We’re pretty sure we are:
Meet Nour Miyati – an Indonesian woman working as a maid in Saudi Arabia, who has just had fingers, toes and parts of her foot amputated due to gangrene. Miss Miyati’s hands and feet developed gangrene because her Saudi employer (slave master) tied her up for a month as punishment for not cleaning the house as well as expected. Now, Miss Miyati has been sentenced by a Saudi Islamic Court to 79 Lashes for “falsely accusing” her slave master of mistreating her… A judge later sentenced the sponsor’s wife, who admitted to beating Miyati, to 35 lashes. The husband was found innocent due to lack of evidence against him.
How could any court possibly conclude that accusations of mistreatment were “false”? It was a man’s word vs. a woman’s word, so it wasn’t that hard to know who the liar was. Well, technically it was a man’s word vs. a woman’s word and lots of pictures of abuse and medical evidence of maltreatment. But seriously, who you gonna believe – a Saudi man, or your own lying, kuffar eyes?
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