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?
Tough doo doo, doody doo, and happypoop. I smell a fecal fetish.
Po is still not naming all the despicable and violent phrases found in his holy books and texts. Lol! Guess the cat has got his tongue. How refreshing. Oh no, wait until he suggests that we just don’t understand enough. Notice, when he is backed into a corner, he does not provide the requested damning phrases. Lol! I’ll take the description of toxic, any day, over the title of being a supporter and perpetrator of the perverse, dangerous and vicious death style, not lifestyle, of Islam. Don’t expect to ever see anything from the self-proclaimed scholar in residence which portrays Islam in a negative light. His paychecks from CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood would stop.
He couldn’t find his way out of the marijauna bag.
Blah, blah blah ISIS! What a pathetic display you folks engaged in the last day and a half, but it’s all good. Glad you were able to showcase your talents and reveal what kind of toxic sludge you people are made of. I hope Professor Turley paid attention.
Then again, Inga, what to expect from teenagers?!
The great thing is that you have incredible insight into their character(s). They are proving everything you’ve ever said about them.
Should we hire the greatest P.I. to unmask them? Nah, forgot there is prohibition against self-incrimination.
Lest I forget, the above mentioned Inga comment is a perfect example of paranoia, a common symptom of mental illness. Maybe your buddy, happypoop, will score you some stuff. She appears to have a never-ending supply. I am totally lost on your nutty references to people and places that I’ve never heard of or known. Really, you and happypoop need to work through those messages being beamed into your brain through the TV screen. Did you leave the Pentecostal faith of your own volition or did they chase you out, with pitchforks and torches? My hunch is the latter. You must’ve scared the living doody doo out of them, and that is some accomplishment.
It would be best of we can keep things respectful here for the greater good of beneficial discussion. Name calling and personal attacks are diminishing any credible ideas from being voiced. That said, those who are presently accusing others of this are often involved just as much to any third party, which is missing out on meaningful insight and will choose to look elsewhere for answers. Nearly all visitors who come to this website do not do so for this pointless drama. So, let’s try to be more respectful to the proprietor.
Po, during the course of the day there were certain phrases that certain commenters that belong in that toxic group often use. I recognized the phrases immediately when the various sockpuppets used them repeatedly. It became obvious they were engaging in a group project and the more they talked the more they gave themselves away. To go to these lengths to bash Islam and tolerance really tells the sad tale of the level of toxicity this bunch exudes, especially when they work in unison.
Inga – you give yourself far too much credit.
Toxic bunch indeed. So childish with the numerous pseudonyms, the mustache and sombrero… the repetition of same talking points….
Soupy star, tellinglikeitaint…etc…etc..islam got you quite unhinged, brother.
Fear got you foaming at the mouth. Being this disjointed is unbecoming.
You know what, you’ve pissed me off, now you get to go at the top of the list of those we gonna get the moment (3 days from now) we establish shariah law worldwide.
Cue evil laugh!
Ah yes indeed my hunch is correct! I knew it. Also, if I am mistaken, these dopes would’ve been on this thread swearing up and down it wasn’t them. OMG, it must be boring over at Lem’s and Troopers lately, bwhahahaha, too much, but it was fun. Happy, you’re being used by these people, I urge caution in any email communication you have with any of them. They are a toxic bunch.
Inga, in any language, means stupid, vapid and beyond salvation, because that is how she portrays herself on this site.
Your arrogance, which precedes you, has told you that I am a male. I’ve made no such inference, but you know better than I do. Just like you have done to others here, you try to pigeon hole contributors so that you have, what you believe to be, some way of defining and categorizing them. You are clueless when it comes to naming the country in which I reside, what my sex is, the religion to which I subscribe, or my ethnic background. But that hasn’t deterred you. Boy, the Pentecostals must have done some number on you. Not only did you abandon your faith, you have abandoned your God. But, don’t worry, Allah will protect you. Hey, I hear that they’re looking for new members. Only problem, once you check in, you don’t check out.
Hmmm, I’m back to my original theory, these two sockpuppets are a ‘group project.’ Happy, I don’t want to dissapoint you, but I really do think it’s your email buddy and his friends, maybe not Aridog though. Very entertaining.
Inga – there is no way that is Ari. I am having a horrible deal with That pit viper Anarchist on another thread. I know people’s personalities by feel, He is working on in his own words, proving I have no self esteem and driving me into psychosis. Which is a joke.
Happy, I’d say ignore him if you can. i know it’s hard, but he seems to derive pleasure in being ugly. It’s too bad he actually said some things I agree with politically, because he turned out to be a nasty piece of work.
Inga
He derives pleasure from inflicting mental anguish. He says it matters to him one way or another but he keeps coming back for more. this is a test for me because I have been through this before in a marriage. I don’t care if he comes over here and reads it. Trusting little fool he thinks I am (lol)
He says things to you that you agree with politically to ensnare you. I was on to it immediately and that is why I was totally reactive. He is toxic. I know who you speak of on here as the sock nation but anarchist has attacked every one of them. I watched. He likes to dominate the thread and control how people think.
Yes, it will be very hard, but not because of why you think. He is not getting to me mentally or spiritually. I am tired of him attacking Turley’s Blog and I want to know who he really is and what his agenda is.
The last time I frontally attacked him was when he attacked jt’s blog again on the opposing thread,
happypappies – have you been over to Flowers for Algernon?
Paul C Schulte do you mean that place where there is so much insanity and ego manipulation it was boring? Not today 😉 😉
Yes Pete, that’s me all over. 😘
correction, in Swedish it means beautiful daughter.
Christopher means ‘bearer of Christ’ but the saint never existed.
In german Inga is a shorted form of Ingal or Ingall, meaning angel. In Norwegian it is the shortened form or Ingaborg or Ingaberg, meaning hero daughter. In Danish or Swedish it means heroes daughter or heroes daughter, respectively.
And by all means keep talking, this us hilarious, Soupy. I like you better than your doppleganger, despite your um…impediment.
Having a small penis isn’t the end of the world, Soupy. Don’t feel bad, you have your big brain you can wow everyone with after all. Hmmmm, Chip is that you?
Inga, a fitting name for ignoramous. You know nothing about me, but you wish to define me. That’s fine. Your prerogative. You lack any logic, common sense or knowledge, so you attack others in any way that you can. I should be allowed to voice my opinions on everything and anything. You are not the arbiter of all that is good and right, and neither are your cohorts. Tough doo doo, if you don’t like it. You only wish that you had a fraction of my education, but it is obvious that you do not.
Penis? Really? Is that what you are now resorting to using? Lol! Who said that you’re not funny? Sick, twisted, dumb, uneducated, strangely attracted to socks, but funny.
If only, ONLY, the uneducated masses would LEARN more about Islam. That’s the ticket, Po. It is WE who need to educate ourselves about the wonders of Islam. That would solve everything. No more problems, worldwide, where Muslims are incapable of getting along with their neighbors. WE are the ones who need the schooling. No more calls to submit or die. No more mass executions, rapes and kidnappings. No more planes, loaded with innocent people, being flown into towers. Everything will be fine and dandy. We just need to submit. If you are the so called Islamic scholar that you claim to be, why not list all the times (they are numerous) where your precious religious texts call for infidels to be killed, wherever they are to be found, with no mercy? How about the homicidal quotes commanding followers to kill Jewish people? You want questions, just not these questions.
The list goes on. The usual suspects will attempt to defend you, while they bash their own belief systems.
LOL! It keeps getting stranger and stranger. FYI Soupy, I never embraced Pentecostalism or fundamentalism, never rolled down the church aisle. Mostly I skipped church to go smoke in the nearby park with friends. As for defending ISIS, this makes you sound positively unhinged. I didn’t call you evil Soupy, nor did I call your doppleganger evil. You do sound like someone who has to keep telling himself he is so much more intelligent than others to make up for, hmmmm, who knows, small penis? Just guessing.
What Po commits is the sin of omission. He wants the ignorant to believe that all of those good deeds are dictated by Islam. What he so conveniently excludes is the fact that all of those good deeds are commanded to be performed with regard to other Muslims. Infidels are not included. Watch him skip over accurately explaining that one.
Inga and happypappies appear to be as ignorant as they are stupid. Someone who voices a different opinion is now called evil. The first is a Godless creature, bent on abandoning her Pentecostal faith and then defending the homicidal maniacs of Islam. One of her rolls down the isles in church, during her younger years, must have resulted in one, or several, knocks to the head. The other is as strange as the day is long. A couple of mental midgets.