Posted on 01/15/2013 2:29:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
Rizana Nafeek was a child herself -- 17 years old, according to her birth certificate -- when a four-month-old baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia. She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family.
Although Rizana said the baby died in a choking accident, Saudi courts convicted her of murder and sentenced her to death. On Wednesday, the Saudi government carried out the sentence in a gruesome fashion, by beheading Rizana.
Rizana's case was rife with problems from the beginning. A recruitment agency in Sri Lanka knew she was legally too young to migrate, but she had falsified papers to say she was 23. After the baby died, Rizana gave a confession that she said was made under duress -- she later retracted it. She had no lawyer to defend her until after she was sentenced to death and no competent interpreter during her trial. Her sentence violated international law, which prohibits the death penalty for crimes committed before age 18.
Rizana's fate should arouse international outrage. But it should also spotlight the precarious existence of other domestic workers. At least 1.5 million work in Saudi Arabia alone and more than 50 million -- mainly women and girls -- are employed worldwide according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
St. Paul was fortunate to be a Roman citizen, and thereby escape crucifixion.
Governments need to do more to stop this kind of human trafficking. President Bush and Dr. Rice are the only 2 I’ve ever heard of say anything. It happens all the time in the Gulf. The governments of these countries should just put a stop to it. Nobody leaves on a domestic visa to the Gulf. That’s it. End of story. No more Sri Lankans, Indians, Filipinos to go there for the sexual assault and daily battery.
isn’t it always controversial to execute foreigners?
especially in a country where non-Muslims and women have zero rights.... do you think this person recieved a fair trial??
I say she probably did not.
Oh horrors! The Saudi’s might actually have to do the work themselves.
Rizana was there in the first place as a victim of involuntary servitude, in effect, a slave.
The Saudis, and in fact much of the Muslim world, still use the system of bound and indentured servants, as a means to further their own personal needs. As slave holders, they can be, and frequently are, as bad or worse than the most terrible plantation masters ever among the Western nations.
Even the Romans had a much better view of slaves, offering at least some of them opportunity to be freed of their bonds upon meeting certain conditions.
Islamic tradition rarely or never allows the slave to go free.
Did she receive a fair trial?
By our standards- no.
By Saudi standards- yes.
While I really don’t have much use at all for the Arab regimes, they are sovereign nations with their own laws. The idiocy of this headline saying the execution was illegal boggles the mind. It was done by authority of Saudi law. Therefore it was clearly legal.
Anyone going into Saudi better do their research because it is not a kind place to foreigners. Hell it is barely a livable place for the locals (outside of the extensive royal family).
International Law is a silly leftist batch of twaddle. It should not be given any credence.
She's free now. I really hope she was right with God.
Repeat after me...the Saudis are our friends, the Saudis are our friends......
“Repeat after me...the Saudis are our friends, the Saudis are our friends...”
Too true; never forget the 15 Saudi hijackers from 9/11.
If this was a Christian nation....the Liberal Globalist Media would be screaming bloody hell...and call for a UN led invasion
But, it is a Koran Thumper nation....so it gets a pass.
If this was a Christian nation....the Liberal Globalist Media would be screaming bloody hell...and call for a UN led invasion
But, it is a Koran Thumper nation....so it gets a pass.
Ah yes, the Nancy Boy Soetero’s ‘co-religionists’.
The vorpal blade went snicker snack...
I've seen those Saudi beheading videos on Youtube, and they do look pretty clean and efficient. However, it's not the methodology I'd question, but the judicial process leading up to it. That's the real scandal in my opinion.
Bush did address human trafficking, but NEVER in connection with Islam. The Eastern sex traffic was his focus. He would never out his royal buddies. The governments are the largest perpetrators, why would they stop it?
Just savages acting like savages.
The fact that their version of justice was served doesn’t mean they still are not F’ing barbarians.
Absolutely. Don’t confuse me with having any sympathy for the Arabs. I long for the day when ME oil becomes irrelevant so those savages will lapse back into a bronze age lifestyle again as it is about all they are willing to put enough effort out to achieve.
However I also abhor the concept of international law. Law set up by unaccountable bodies applying rules to those who did not approve of those making the decisions is bunk.
Just savages acting like savages.
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Exactly. Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to these subhumans. Prime example of their depravity: The story that I read here earlier in the day about the ring of mohammedans in the UK who were making money using underage prostitutes whom they had drugged and savaged. They are in the thrall of demons, to be sure.
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