Saudi Arabia: 13 Year old girl sentenced to 90 lashes for bringing cell phone to school

I think that she did good in bringing the phone to school because defiance is how you start a revolution. Someone has to be first.

Excuse me I know this doesn't pertain to the article above it is in your first quote regarding the UN and Israel, Israel is and has been infringing on human rights more the Palestinian rights since the 1940's !!!!! Imagine all your life you can not move anywhere apart from the town you live in !! Imagine that everywhere you go you are under their control not your own, life as you know it does not exist for Palestinians. We have no infrastructure thanks to them, so we cannot have any businesses that will allow us to move forward save live provide a future for our children !! We live in apocalyptic looking cities and with no running water or electricity (comes and goes as they please) Imagine that in order to provide for your family the little that you would be able to in order to just SURVIVE !! So you have to go to the checkpoint every morning to see if some pimple faced 18 year old soldier and his attitude that day will let you in to Israeli territory to go work all day !!! for 5 dollars !!! can you survive off that ?? can anyone ?? I think you really need to see the big picture !! I am not Muslim I am a Palestinian Christian born in Bethlehem the birth place of Christ !! but more than that I am HUMAN !! and where i see wrong i say wrong !!! go to Israel see how the maintain us like dogs !!! I do not agree with what the Muslim Palestinians do as far as blowing themselves up on a bus and so forth which no Christian Palestinian would ever do !!! we will fight with what we have rocks and arms but never ever would a Christian Palestinian blow themselves up in the name of Allah !! Think of it like this there is a saying about a dog that gets beat on a daily basis that dog has two options 1- balls shrink , tail between legs and it becomes obedient or its balls enlarge and it bites you !! Any human being I don't care what your religion is or where you come from once any human being feels that their life and family unit is being threatened you will do ANYTHING to protect that !! I hope that I have opened your eyes some as to what you really think is going on is NOT !!! One day I hope that both Palestinians and Israelis can live in peace, Please do not limit yourself to one track thinking pick up the Koran read it understand it and really try to be objective as a journalist because so far you sound a bit racist !! Peace

This is absurd! How can they punish a teenager like that just by bringing a cellphone in school? Is the reason greater than the welfare of one of their citizens? It is indeed disgusting.

The Saudi mind is a depraved and fetid tool of cruelty and cowardice.
Now all you good moderate Muslims be sure to face this retarded retch-inducing bowel-movement
every time you pray.

She had assaulted the Head Mistress. You people seem to leave that out. I bet she or any of her friends will not bring a phone to school again. There must be severe consequences for your actions. If in the USA we cut the hand off of a drug dealer regardless of age do you think more or less people would sell drugs. Cut a finger of any shoplifter first offender. Cut the hand off of a second offender, Guess what- shoplifting crimes would go down and so would the cost of goods. You want result but wont do what it takes SO LIVE WITH IT!

I think you're correct. The little bitch needs to be taught a lesson. Go back to my first post.
You're an F ' in idiot.

You're an idiot as well.

It's time you changed your ID from "rosshastheanswer" to "rosshasaproblem".

I think 90 lashes is a ridiculous amount for assaulting a teacher. What is a good # 2,3,12! As far as my methods to stop and drastically reduce crime in the USA would only affect those who commit crime. The reduction in crime would eventually lead to more monies for social services, welfare, hunger, schools. It's your type of attitude that allows crimes and drugs to exist, if someone went to six schools and shot 300 kids you would be against the death penalty. sad sad sad

Oh? What do you know about my "type of attitude"? Tell me: do you believe murder has ceased in countries and states that have capital punishment? Has it even declined in such places? Doubtless you will provide evidence to show that the imposition of harsher penalties for crimes results in lower crime rates. And don't jump to conclusions, upon reading this, about my attitude to punishment: you are not clever enough.

This discussion should not be about religion but about human rights. There has got to be a way that we, the regular people of the United States, can impact on their economy by forcing them to update their backwards beliefs.

When you have Islamic Sharia operating as the law of the land, religion
plays a pretty large part in the argument. If Saudi Barbaria were a secular
state, then this conversation would be entirely different.

well even though the punishment does not serve the crime in my opinion, she kinda brought it on her self by bringing it. Sure is s stupid rule, but she had and broke it since she had it hidden

you're an idiot.
I SAY KILL HER, KILL HER MOTHER AND FATHER, DRAG HER BROTHER AND SISTERS THROUGH THE STREETS AND HANG THEM, WE CAN NOT HAVE THIS. BURN THEIR HOUSE- STOMP ON THEIR GARDEN. PRAISE THE PEDIFILE!!!!!!!! (pbu it).

lol wow, ur kidding right?
U must be a guy purposely trying to act like a savage so we can increase our distaste for Muslim
Or a Muslim showing how wonderful it is to live in Saudi Arabia and making Islam look like the insane Religion in this world which it already is.

I wonder why her mother and father has to be killed? are you suggesting parent frisk their kids daily? U must not have children

well good to know insane people still roam these parts

1. obviously kidding
2. huh?
3. nope (tim in FLORIDA)
4. have children
5. what parts
....she "kinda" brought it on herself.........
6 you're a f'in idiot

wow ur such a bigot, must be a high school drop out
I wrote "U must be a guy purposely trying to act like a savage so we can increase our distaste for Muslim"....so I kinda suspected u were just pretending, but I guess I dont have physic powers like you in order to perceive how my reaction was going to be
Read carefully what I wrote, it all makes perfect sense as a response to ur idiotic post
Dont quick ur day job

It's not bigoted to feel hatred for evil. You say she brought this upon herself? What are you talking about? The only premise I can think of for an asinine statement like that would be that you support and enjoy living under totalitarian Islam. If that's the case, you are my enemy.

I completely understand what you mean...however cruel the punishment might be for something so ridiculous... she knew what she did, and knew it was not allow.

I'm only saying she kinda took the risk and lost.
Realistically speaking she broke a law/rule and paid for it..is it a ridiculous rule/law? yes..is it a cruel punishment for such an offense, of course, specially for a minor....

Think about it, you're a lawyer defending the school....your case is already won when you state, the child knew the restriction of such device, and the punishment for it ...honestly, lets be real

I'm not a Muslim, dont hate them nor love them...I'm quite neutral in this matter I dont condone or condemn anyone just because of their religion...like the saying goes, judge me for what I do not what I'm

Reduce the punishment or change the rule policy in such electronic device, instead of breaking whats in place at the moment...My Girlfriend is a Muslim, and they hate their regimes (Iran), most of them choose to live under it if they could too bad they are treated like camels. Change will come sooner or later... the people are starting to see how lovely is to live with western values.
I would not listen to CNN or NBC when it comes to peoples opinion, I've been to Tehran twice, and I can tell you that most people want this to go away and live freely.

the cruelty of the situation should far outweigh your "she deserved it"
argument. If you have any morals or conscience.

If I brought my Bible into Saudi arabia, and they arrested and sentenced me
to 3 years in prison, would you argue that "I deserved it" or would you
argue how much of a cruel and insane system and people the Saudis are?

I would argue that you were stupid to bring that Bible, but the crime does not deserve the punishment. The same with the girl, she was stupid and she got the punishment because of that very stupidity, but did she deserve it, absolutely not, 7th century tribalism belongs in the 7th century. Yes Saudi is handicapped severely by the worst form of backward tribalist-come-theocratic run legal system and until they get rid of it, they will continue to remain backward and rejected as a fringe-state by the rest of the world.

agreed, except for you leaving out that Saudi politics are directly related
to their Islamic faith.

oh definitely, the punishment outweights the crime by far
In your case also....more even

I'm not denying the law is stupid, believe me, I think Saudi Arabia Somalia and mostly Muslim fundamentalist nations are the ones I would avoid visiting because of their laws...If I was there, I would be very careful not to do anything stupid, because I have to live under their moronic laws .... the rules in those places are not the same as back home
The system is messed up, and cruel...which is why I insist when I say "bring it upon urself"...because you know where you are, and that they play a different ballgame....when I was there I was like a nuclear engineer, being very cautious and careful, thinking: dont do anything stupid, it will have catastrophic results
I did, and I was fine, actually had a nice time in Iran to be honest

"ur" an idiot.

lol whatever u say bro
cough * look up internet slang* cough

"cough" no kidding "cough"
my ever texting daughters are aware as well.

"SHE KINDA BROUGHT IT ON HERSELF"

idiot.

Now let it go bro, I have a meeting to attend. Have a good day. And think before you write that any human being, or dog for that matter, brings any sadistic violence upon themselves for something so ridiculous as carrying a cell phone.

Sh*t, islam is an ugly religion. Do you guys know that many of the saudi people quietly wished the invasion started by Saddam Husein would have succeeded? They wished that because he would have abolished those stinking religious police. True that!

Good thing she wasn't wearing pants ... imagine what would have happened then.

"banning the use of camera-equipped phones in girls’ schools"
Hhmmm....what have we to hide folks?

They're hiding the fact that muslims have zero self control when it comes to women, which is why they cover them up in shrouds. They ban the cell phones because they do not want women taking any pictures and possible sending them to someone, because that someone might be male, and might be seduced into raping someone after viewing said pictures. More evidence that islam is something that can only afflict the weak minded.

Ur hit it direct and those men are not men enought to be what it´s take to be a real man. So, those men is for sure nothing tha our commen God will be pleased when He day will come, as He say and that day will be that comes when we are not prepare for it and it be be, like a thife in the night. There is not that say anythin at all about any dumb things like jihad or selfbomber. I people who take his life is sin in Gods eyes so I dont understand what the muslims aretalking about ??? It is first our God and they try to change hi so he will suit their own issue but he will not he will look at us all it does care whar religion we have but it will be worser for those pedofiles tha God will not have any pardon with,so I hope they are prepare to leave the earth for the dugustiing behavor. There arelot more that god wil not aprove with and then I thinkthsát the islam and alson the mulims have to take a look at their selfmand remember that God do not love selfmurder or murder of there own reletives either and not and there will for sure a hard condemned from God side. So Good luck with U teather where are not even allowe to read the bible and there is will tell U all what is good and bad in Gods own eyes.