Maybe she spiked her own drink
So if you’re a woman in Qatar and you get roofied, you’d better just shut up about it, because if you accuse the roofier of rape you’ll be charged with a crime yourself, and most likely convicted. The BBC reports:
A court in Qatar has convicted a Dutch woman of having sex outside marriage after she told police she was raped.
The 22-year-old was handed a suspended sentence and fined $824 (£580). She will also be deported.
Her lawyer said her drink had been spiked at a Doha hotel in March and she had woken up in a stranger’s flat, where she realised she had been raped.
The stranger was sentenced to 100 lashes for the “sex outside marriage,” and 40 more for drinking alcohol.
The woman has been detained since making the allegation three months ago, but her case only came to light over the weekend when her family decided to go public.
So along with the fine she’s served three months in jail – for being drugged and raped.
The woman was arrested by Qatari police immediately after reporting that she had been raped on the night of 15 March, as was the alleged assailant.
During a holiday in the emirate, she went out with a friend for drinks at a hotel where the sale of alcohol was permitted, according to her lawyer Brian Lokollo.
“She went dancing but when she returned to the table after the first sip of her drink, she realised someone had added something to her glass,” he said.
The woman did not feel very well and she later woke alone in an unfamiliar flat and “realised to her great horror that she had been raped”, Mr Lokollo added.
Doha-based lawyer Najeeb al-Nuaimi, Qatar’s former justice minister, told the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera the woman’s lawyers would have had to prove there had been “no voluntary actions” between her and the man for him to be charged with rape.
And of course it’s impossible to prove that, so…
In 2013, a Norwegian woman in the United Arab Emirates was given a 16-month prison sentence for perjury, extramarital sex and drinking alcohol after she told police she had been raped. She was later pardoned and allowed to return to Norway.
Just don’t go there. Not Qatar, not the UAE, not the whole damn peninsula. Stay away.
Of course there was “voluntary action” on her part: She voluntarily interacted with a man, while having the expectation that she would treated like a human being.
<3 these "allies" we've got.
This goes to the whole testimony evaluation ‘thing.’ Without four MALE witnesses, no accusation of rape has any value. Supposedly this was a convenient revelation from the deity so that Mohammed wouldn’t have to kill his wife for being alone in the desert with a man. The previous ‘revelations’ insisted that this, of itself, was presumed adultery. By adding the requirement for multiple witnesses, Mo got to keep his power of life and death over his female property.