Wonders, they say, shall never end. A
conservative Muslim preacher in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to eight years
in prison and 800 lashes for raping his five-year-old daughter.
The preacher, pictured above, is known as
Fayhan al-Ghamdi. He usually preached on television as a good man. But he lost his
sense of decency and violated his daughter of just 5years. Not only did this
Muslim cleric rape his young daughter, he also beat her mercilessly, leading to
her death.
Fayhan was convicted of beating his
daughter Lama with canes, burning her with electrical cables, crushing her
skull and tearing off her nails. She was also raped repeatedly and died later
in a Saudi hospital.
Saudi Arabia is known to follow a strict
interpretation of Islam under which murder, drug trafficking; rape and armed
robbery are capital crimes, with execution mostly by firing squad. But in the case of Muslim preacher
Fayhan, he was sentenced to just 8 years in prison.
The case of Lama caused a public outcry and
brought to light sensitive issues surrounding the ambiguity of punishment for
Saudi fathers found guilty of murdering their own children.
Saudi officials say the popular Muslim
preacher was not given a harsher sentence because the girl's mother accepted 1
million riyals, roughly $267,000, from him (her ex-husband) as "blood
money," which is allowed in litigation under Saudi law.
The Egyptian mother, who acquired Saudi
nationality through her ex-husband, said she is a poor woman with no income. By
accepting the money, she waived the right to demand retribution against Fayhan
for the death of their daughter.
Some are however alleging that the woman
was pressured to accept the money.
Source: Date360.net
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