Dr. Hayat Sindi is a Saudi Arabian medical scientist and a woman who has earned respect for extraordinary accomplishments in a country that denies women basic liberties. She is not only an award-winning scientist but one of the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. Ranked by Arabian Business as the 19th most influential Arab in the world and the ninth most influential Arab woman, it is not surprising that Harvard University has brought her to the country as a visiting scholar. However, a nasty lawsuit in King County has raised deeply disturbing allegations about Sindi’s efforts against women who she accuses of hacking her emails. According to counsel for one of those women, Sindi worked to have another woman flogged for writing on Facebook that she had had an affair with her husband. On the other side is Samia El-Moslimany, a women’s activist and photographer who lives in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, who is fighting to keep Sindi from forcing the disclosure of the women, who would face medieval Sharia justice in Saudi Arabia.
All of this began when El-Moslimany posted statements on social media in 2012 alleging that Sindi had had an affair with her husband. Sindi responded with a Saudi defamation case and, according to an affidavit submitted by El-Moslimany’s lawyer, she wanted El-Moslimany flogged. The effort backfired. A Saudi judge decided last year that El-Moslimany should spend four days in jail for the public defamation while Sindi should spend two months in jail for forming an illicit relationship with El-Moslimany’s husband. Neither has served their sentences.
Sindi however has continued to try to force disclosure of the names of the women commenting on the Internet under the claim that she was hacked. A King County Superior Court judge decided Friday not to sentence a Burien woman to jail or to levy a $500 fine for each day of withholding the names in light of the danger to these women.
Judge Mariane Spearman denied Sindi’s request to hold El-Moslimany in contempt of court because Sindi’s new lawyer could not specify which Facebook comments might be a basis for investigating any of the women.
The idea of a Harvard academic fighting to have women flogged for alleged defamation is deeply troubling. The fact that Saudi Sharia law allows for medieval justice does not excuse a demand for such justice over the exercise of free speech. Even if such speech was defamatory, it should not be a criminal matter subject to flogging. Whatever the truth of the adultery, it should not be relevant to Harvard or anyone else other than those involved in these families. However, flogging for posting matters on the Internet raises significant issues of due process and free speech.
Should Harvard be involved in such dispute when one of its faculty seeks to have women flogged under Sharia law or this is simply a private matter under the laws of another country?
Hmmm, shades of DavidM again, or even Olly. Well whatever, it doesn’t really matter. Extremist fundamentalists all will, if given half a chance, kill to make God’s Kingdom on Earth. Most people who truly know fundamentalism are keenly aware of this. You may try to fool mainstream Christians, but those of us who know better will always tell the truth of the matter.
I can say that he does not condone, preach, encourage or endorse that those belonging to other religions, races or nationalities be victimized in any way, shape or form. That I can and do say with certainty. I am unconcerned with his visions of the moon or his specific take on the Book of Ezekiel. Those are, as used here, the proverbial red herrings, thrown into the mix to distract from your statement that he is somehow in the same category with fundamentalist Muslim preachers. Not all fundamentalists are cut from the same cloth; not all fundamentalists cry for the death and destruction of others. Hagee is an example of that. Perhaps if you stopped laughing, you just might learn something.
Sooooo, moo boy, can you tell us some more about Reverend Hagee, the good fundamentalist?
So glad, Inga, that you found what I had to say comedic. You know what they say, behind all comedy is the truth. You’re coming around.
Nope, you sure aren’t one of my sockpuppets, lol. My socks are safely in the drawer, the stage is all yours…and yours and yours… This has been so fun can you come back everyday and do your a schtick?
Mooooooooooooooo. . .lol!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone disagreeing with Imam Po, Sheikha Inga and their slow child, happy, has a venomous tone.
Look out Professor Turley, you may actually have a few individuals on here unwilling to be bamboozled or intimidated by the likes of Inga. She is used to dealing with sock puppets, which she clearly has an attachment to, for some unknown reasons. Oh, wait, that’s right. . .sock puppets never talk back to you, do they? No wonder you enjoy them so much. Your sock puppets merely regurgitate whatever you make them say. Guess what? We’re not one of your sock puppets; you can’t control the conversation or censor anyone’s thoughts. I know. It’s a shock when you’re used to controlling your sock puppets and their words.
This “cow” is a special guy, he has appeared on various blogs with the same extremely venomous tone. Now I recognize it completely. Yes indeed, Trooper York, Spinelli, DBQ, Chip Ahoy, Pogo, all part of the Recruits. If I were Professor Turley, I would watch this “cow” closely.
EBL , the cow has a great website. He’s friends with the Recruits. Solved the riddle of the sockpuppet. Oh my gosh that was fun.
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happy
I thought that you were brimming to the top with the Holy Spirit. Do you really want to poke fun at the Book of Ezekiel? Hmmmmm. . .how very un Jesus like of you. Wonder what would Jesus do? Would he ridicule images contained in the Old Testament? I’ll let the Holy Spirit guide you on that one. By the way, I don’t care if Hagee has his breakfast with aliens, he still poses no threat by demanding that anyone be stoned, beheaded or otherwise killed. You continually miss relevant points.
Tellingit
I am poking fun at Hagee who thinks he is the snake that sits in th bosom of Abraham I can poke fun at any part of the Bible I want to as the Holy Spirit in our last conversation that you find so ridiculous told me not to worry about it. I find it ridiculous in many parts and I will say so because It is monstrous in its prophesy’s of killing and promises of killings in say – Joel because of the Plague of Locusts of the Israelites enemies. All bets were off of when Jesus came,
That was the Prophecy Jeremiah predicted the following in Jeremiah 31:31-34: “Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
That was our promises as those who followed Jesus which the Jews did not – I don’t care what Hagee said as I said so don’t moralize me you toad.
Glad you enjoyed it; however, you really should check on that apparent fascination you appear to have with inanimate objects, such as socks and puppets made thereof. Your persistent need to mention them may indicate some sort of compulsion.
But yours ARE Paul, congrats on your new gig.
Too funny, comedy gold. Sockpuppetry has never been so fun. It’s much more fun reading a sockpuppet trying to be serious all the while being accidentally hilarious. Oy! Much more entertaining than my sockpuppets were. I give credit where credit is due.
Inga – you are a legend in your own mind. Your sock puppets were NEVER entertaining.
When Inga steps in to act as the water carrier for CAIR, she becomes just one more useful idiot at their disposal. . .never believing that same wrath and danger, perpetuated by these individuals, may someday be inflicted upon her and her loved ones. Acquiescence to the threat will not serve to spare anyone. Too bad this isn’t her blog. Poor baby is upset that she can’t control the dialogue. I suspect that her out of touch rhetoric has gone uncontested for too long, and I assume that most just read it and shrug.
Praise the Lord and pass the popcorn!
Paul
Hallelujah!
LOL, says Paul who month after month is logged in as the most frequent commenter here. Oh my god, this stuff is gold.
LOL, this whole thread has gotten schizophrenic. I think “Telling” is a composite of the usual suspects. Very entertaining. Oh poor Professor Turley, look what they’ve done to his blog.
happy now believes that she is Jesus Christ. Laughing hysterically now!!!!!!!!!! She calls the Rev. John Hagee every kind of name, and then, she hallucinates about the Holy Spirit being in her. Lol! Yes, she’s just like Jesus! She’s full of something, but it ain’t no Holy Spirit. It’s not relevant whether one agrees with Hagee and his take on the end of days, what’s relevant is that as a fundamentalist, of any religion, he doesn’t espouse the harm to or murder of innocents. That was the sole reason for mentioning him, and happy, as usual, used it as an excuse to go off on some farfetched and bizarre tangent. To be expected. Had happy ever experienced even one moment of lucidity, she would have understood the reason for using him as an example. No wonder there have been others here questioning her sanity; I am just one. I was not the one asking for her email; people who have such a tenuous grasp of reality frighten me.
Telling it like it ain’t
Hagee’s views on Iran are apparently based on his practice of ‘Bible prophecy,’ which gives him the power to see that the psychedelic book of Ezekiel, which also mentions spaceships and monsters, discusses an alliance of Islamic nations and Russia against Israel. Hagee thus believes that “World War III has begun. 😉 😉
Take violence out of Islam and you have nothing left. It is a cornerstone of the belief system. Don’t get snookered into some theoretical bs. The individual you are questioning is duplicitous, at best.
Super star
Isn’t t that sweet, you have to have so many on the same thread to argue your point because I am so dim and Po is so dangerous and Annie is now a defector that is supposed to make sure she tells God she is agnostic.
There are legitimate concerns about Islam, Po: the Islam that is tangled with cultural and political problems, the Islam that wants Sharia government, not just personal Sharia. Most Muslims in in ME countries want Sharia and many think there is only one way to interpret Sharia (see my links above).
The Sharia we see in the news too frequently is one that stones people, cuts off people’s hands, threatens apostates with death, requires people to dress a certain way, and forbids music and dancing. Americans do not want Sharia government here, including Americans who are Muslim.
You are defending Islam in its ideal form, the Islam that the Muslims I know and care about live out. Unfortunately, I fear they are in the minority in other countries. People here see the cloistered attitudes causing problems elsewhere and do not want the tangled Islam to grow here.
What are your thoughts on this? Can Islam exist outside of a theocracy for most believers?