Posted on 03/27/2008 7:35:03 PM PDT by Alouette
RIYADH, 28 March 2008 — Shoura Council Chairman Dr. Saleh Bin-Humaid has urged US authorities to review the case of Homaidan Al-Turki, a 37-year-old Saudi student who was found guilty in a Colorado state court of 12 counts of sexually assaulting his Indonesian maid.
“The Saudi people sympathize with Homaidan Al-Turki and they closely follow up his case,” the Shoura chief said and hoped for a speedy end to the issue. He also emphasized the Kingdom’s respect for American justice.
Al-Turki, a former Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado, maintains that he did not sexually assault the woman, whose identity has not been disclosed due to the nature of the alleged crime, and has accused US officials of persecuting him for “traditional Muslim behavior.”
Bin-Humaid took up the issue of Al-Turki during a meeting with US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in Riyadh on Wednesday. The talks, according to the Saudi Press Agency, focused on political, economic and educational issues as well as parliamentary relations.
Chertoff said the US judicial system aims to establish justice for all, adding that it would not do any injustice to foreigners. “Both sides have agreed to strengthening their strategic and historic relations.”
Al-Turki, who had been a graduate student in Colorado for nine years, was sentenced in August 2006 to 20 years for the rape charges and eight years for theft of the maid’s wages. The federal charges of not renewing the maid’s work visa, falsely imprisoning the woman and holding the woman’s passport to ensure she didn’t flee were dropped after federal prosecutors decided the 28-year-sentence by the state court was sufficient. Al-Turki is appealing the verdict.
Al-Turki’s wife Sarah Al-Khonaizan returned to the Kingdom in September 2006 after serving two months in prison related to labor violations: Paying the maid less than $2 a day for more than four years, and withholding this wage, too. Al-Khonaizan claims the maid willingly wanted her employers to hold her salary, a claim denied by the plaintiff.
Hamad Al-Khonaizan, Sarah’s brother, blamed anti-Muslim sentiment for Al-Turki’s prosecution, saying that a key factor for his imprisonment was that he was preaching Islam.
“Homaidan had trust in the American justice system and on the democratic nature of the country,” Hamad said in a statement. “The country that he studied in and where he excelled in school was not fair toward him. They searched for a means to bring him down and tried many ways until they found the weapon that they could use against him, which was the Indonesian maid.”
I want to throw up.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
A graduate student for nine years?
Obviously not the sharpest crayon in the box.
Tough. Traditional saudi behaviour is traditional American crime, buddy.
“The Saudi people sympathize with Homaidan Al-Turki and they closely follow up his case,”
That says more than I want to know about the Saudi people. I was hoping it was just the government, and the perpetrators of 911 and on and on and so forth.
He must have been taking classes from Ward Churchill.
Sharia. Coming to a high school near you.
According to Al Turki, physical and sexual battery constitute “traditional Muslim behavior.” Based on what I know of Islam, I agree.
“Al-Turki, who had been a graduate student in Colorado for nine years”
What the heck was he studying?
Ah, but not legal behavior in the US.
It is a traditional behavior.
A tradition of rich Saudis abusing Indonesian servants.
It’s not the first time its happened in the US. Remember the princess in Floriduh?
LOL, you’re right.
Seriously, how can one be a graduate student for nine years?
The school must have been milking him for his tuition money or they were afraid to wash him out.
He was probably majoring in Anger Studies.
On the other hand this is a pretty typical case. Your typical South Asian slaver hires on a maid, then takes away her passport, rapes her regularly, and doesn't pay her. This can frequently lead to the maid's death.
Saudi has a huge class of people who continue to resist the abolition of slavery.
They think we are so weird and backward for our misguided attitudes.
Geesh, I'm past the point of no return. I can't stand any of these A-holes, and I never will.
How to fly airplanes but not the landing stuff.
Ask the imam, are worms halal or haram? He just opened up a can full.
He can always appeal to the District Shari’a Court in Boulder. Oh, there isn’t one? Huh. Funny how these things just work themselves out.
Let me go that sort of thing one better. I attended college at the same time as a Saudi I got to know quite well. He'd brought one of the family slaves with him. He was also attending classes.
Got to know him quite well too.
Neither man intended to return to Saudi.
Years later I discovered that my secretary belonged to a women's society in the Washington DC area that is dedicated to finding and rescuing Filipino and Indonesian women held captive as slaves by Arabs and other South Asian employers.
Yes, I do know a modern day Abolitionist who frees slaves. Put me in awe of the woman.
Please feel free to do so all over
Shrillery if one can do so safely . . . highly unlikely. But i would serve the Jihadi loving traitor right if on did unload in her lap . . . or hair . . . or gapint lying mouth.
Thanks.
I have had working relationships with Saudi military students in US and counterparts in Saudi Arabia.
They always have two faces. Put two together...and you don’t recognize them, as before!
accused US officials of persecuting him for “traditional Muslim behavior.”
I want to throw up.”
AMEN....This is another window on the “traditional” Muslim thinking.
They can be educated to be bankers, doctors, lawyers, or whatever.
They still are frozen in the ideas that woman don’t count for anything, and their camels and sheep and donkeys are more valuable.
This woman was even less valuable to him because she was from another country. $2 a day? That alone should put him into prison for 75 years, IMO. His wife must be a real piece of work, also!!!
““Al-Turki, who had been a graduate student in Colorado for nine years”
What the heck was he studying?”
He was working on a paper for the Journal of Irreproducible Results, to be titled: An Investigation of the Sexual Behavior of The Dhimmi Female in America.
;-)
9 years as a ‘grad student’ actually translates into ‘trust fund baby living off mommy and daddy’. The guy didn’t want to have to go back to ‘the kingdom’ so he hung out in Boulder with all his expenses paid for and his indonesian slave/maid who he could rape for kicks (which is apparently his right as a muslim man).
Behead the lout in the town square......like they do in Saudiland!
Even worse John Suthers the DA of Colorado actually went to SA to “explain” our laws to them.
Unbelievable. Scary as hell.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5159606,00.html
What?!
Repulsive.
You cost me money. Again. ;-) BTT
You wont regret it.
Not necessarily, if the grad program was just cover for his being in the US
From Saudi newspaper:
A graduate student at the University of Colorado , studying linguistics, al Turki has lived in the United States since 1995.He's also running a business publishing Islamic books (Jihadi propaganda material?)Federal Court documents field by al Turki’ lawyers detail the investigation against him. They claim the Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force has had al Turki under a “full fledge investigation” suspecting “he is closely aligned to terrorists and may be providing material support to terrorism.”
His lawyers said he “adamantly and vehemently denies any links to terrorism.” They add he looks forward to being vindicated of all charges against him in court.
Of course the State Department is filth for not deporting them.
On September 12, 2001, every single one of the Saudi foreign students in the States should have been summarily deported.
And that should have been just the beginning.
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