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Arabia
Saudi presenter shows beaten face
2004-04-16
In case you missed the pix from Sunday...
A TV presenter who says she was beaten by her husband has allowed newspapers to show pictures of her swollen face to highlight domestic abuse. Rania al-Baz said her husband, Mohammed al-Fallatta, beat her so hard earlier this week that he broke her nose and fractured her face in 13 places. She is recovering in hospital. Police are looking for Mr Fallatta, an unemployed lounge singer. Reuters news agency says he faces charges of attempted murder. Ms Baz’s mother told Saudi media that Mr Fallatta beat her daughter regularly. After beating her, Mr Fallatta took her to hospital and fled, her mother reportedly added. "I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in Saudi Arabia," Ms Baz said. Analysts say domestic violence is widespread in the country.
Do tell? We'd never noticed. We'd never suspected...
"It is considered a husband’s rights that his wife should obey him," Abeer Mishkhas, of the Saudi English-language newspaper Arab News, told BBC News Online. "This can involve coercion or violence, and we know that the majority of cases of this kind go unreported and unnoticed." However more and more Saudi women go to civil courts to request divorces on grounds of violence, Ms Mishkhas says.
Sorry, if this has been up here before, it just really gets my goat. Grrrrr...
Posted by:Howard UK

#14  Anonymous4052 -- you are free to believe he's real ofcourse, but I still think he's nothing but an intentional strawman/parody.

And it's not good for debate to construct such strawmen IMO. Good for humour perhaps, as long as everyone knows the guy's fictional.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2004-04-16 8:07:12 PM  

#13  Aris Katsaris - You are evidently unfamilliar with the state of Colleges and Universities, and what they teach as "fact". AntiGum parrots what was driven into him by middle-aged hippie professors who are leftovers from anti-Vietnam War protests.
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-16 6:14:06 PM  

#12  Raj> AntiGum is a parody of Antiwar (who might himself be a parody of something or a troll, but who's also possibly the genuine article).

Anyway, AntiGum seems to advocate everything that civilised people don't.

I find him annoying myself, partly because some people here really do seem to think him for real, or reply to him as if he really believes what he's writing.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2004-04-16 5:45:39 PM  

#11  Lon Hair GOP-But I thought Islam was a religion of enlightenment and peace?
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-16 5:19:44 PM  

#10  There are about 20 good books out on women of the Middle East that depict even worse treatment than this of there women. It's not uncommon for a woman to be locked away and never seen again...in her parents house!! I am surprised that this story even got out of S.A.
They have more respect for their camels than they do for there women.
Posted by: Long Hair Republican   2004-04-16 5:16:48 PM  

#9  Thanks for the info Howard UK
I wasn't going to comment on this but I see a product of the mindset of or "higher Educational System" has raised it head -

BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT CULTURE YOU FREEPER BASTARDS

Different culture my a**.

If I say we condem some 11th century thug beating up his wife, and get condemed by being called facist or some kind of "-ism", so what.

So apparently we aren't allowed to call a savage a savage because he might get "offended"?
Well I offend this stupid "singer". You beat your wife you stupid jackass?
I hope the cops, when they find you, handle you.
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-16 4:12:38 PM  

#8  So AntiGum advocates the beating of women? Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-16 4:11:19 PM  

#7  Hey! I didn't ask for the pictures - I just thought, naively, it was new.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-04-16 4:09:45 PM  

#6  yes antigum and it need to be a changer.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-04-16 4:04:45 PM  

#5  I know it looks bad.
BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT CULTURE YOU FREEPER BASTARDS.
Posted by: AntiGum   2004-04-16 3:58:42 PM  

#4  Still better looking than Katie Couric.
Posted by: Unmutual   2004-04-16 2:19:04 PM  

#3  Rania's got guts. Next issue to spotlight is honor killings.

Notice next time you read a Saudi paper on USA/Iraq/Israel... how you see quotes begin with "Everybody knows..." like Everybody knows the real power in the White House. Well everybody in the MK knows others in Rania's position, but also everybody knows not a thing will be done to rectify situation. You know, my brother, international image and all that.

BTW, loved the BBc style. Must have been translated from Arabic. Everybody "loves" Rania. Another hoot was telling us that women aren't allowed to vote in MK. Really? I thought the vote was limited to...nobody!
Posted by: Michael   2004-04-16 1:12:06 PM  

#2  She went on tv looking like that? How embarrassing for the husband, she is sooo getting a beating for this when she gets home.

/sarc
Posted by: BH   2004-04-16 10:36:51 AM  

#1  Well at least he didn't rape her and then leave saying "you better put some ice on that".
Posted by: mhw   2004-04-16 9:19:21 AM  

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