The next Mass Effect game is going to be wild. Apparently you get an immediate game over right there in the character creator if you set the gender to female.
Well they solved that by canning bioware altogether.
What a disgusting and unjust dump of a country. Pity on all stuck there and who want out of any repressive place. None should be this way, to abuse women and children and others, it’s sick to treat people that way.
Did they punish the father? Or are they admitting to immaculate conception?
I don’t think you’re “getting” patriarchal medieval systems of “governance”
Both sides get the same number of lashes in Islamic law, so that’s not what’s going on here.
Well note they said patriarchal and medieval not Islamic.
Context is Saudi Arabia.
You’d be surprised how many Islamic countries are ruled by traditions that do not originate in Islam. Or that are warped from.
Just like you’d be shocked what the Bible says about mega-rich pastors. Or what Judaism says about the magic wire around that segment of New York.
For anyone that was never in a religion, basically, people earnestly follow it, but in order for that to be possible, whatever “it” is tends to be flexible. The scriptures, or oral traditions, are reinterpreted however works for the cool, powerful people.
It’s also interesting that many religions take on trappings of of the local area. Christianity carrtainly does and Buddhism seems to too.
Sure but while Saudi Arabia can get weird sometimes (see: that one time they banned women from driving for God knows what reason) for the most part they’re pretty orthodox about this stuff.
Edit: In the very weak defense of Saudi Arabia, they eventually repealed the driving ban.
American Christians tried to ban women drivers because the vibrations could give them sexual pleasure.
Really just two sides of the same shitty coin. We’re just a little further ahead than they are.
They never or seldom punish the men. This woman said the father left the country.
Who are “you” quoting when you put quotes around “random” words?
Scare quotes, probably. This is a very particular sense of “getting”. Like, otherwise, you could read this as a synonym for “receiving”.
“them”
She reportedly became pregnant during a brief relationship with an Egyptian man and said that the child’s father had since left the country.
So raped.
Not what you’re asking at all, but technically all conception is immaculate conception in Islam because it doesn’t have the concept of the original sin (it holds that Adam and Eve’s sin was forgiven after they asked God for forgiveness). You’re thinking of virgin birth, in which case the answer is yes for Mary no for everyone else; in the OP’s case they believe in “the father got away” birth.
Christianity would be very very different if Jesus had been born in Saudi Arabia.
Do you get all your sins wiped when you get pregnant?
Wait is that another Christian thing? Dammit Christians.
No; the father is male.
At most he’d probably have to pay money to the girl’s father.
Do you want him to be?
Religion
Yep. The peaceful religion.
How does one survive 100 lashes?
They don’t give all the lashes at once. They let you heal up a bit between sessions.
Religion of peace you see.
Only in Iran, which is unusually harsh. This (not NSFW) is more typical.
They spread them out over multiple sessions IIRC
Only in Iran, which is unusually harsh. This (not NSFW) is more typical.
Islamic lashing is as a rule pretty lenient. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYS_nduLkdU (not even NSFW). Iran is the notable exception here, which is where the stuff you’re getting in the replies applies.
Do you want to say that Iran bad and Saudi Arabia good - in the latter you get beheaded, btw.
No, I want to answer the parent comment’s question while explaining why the other answers are wrong.
The future conservatives want.
The future conservatives want, while also screaming about El-Sayed forcing Sharia Law.
“All people against my side are exactly the same and interchangeable”
TBF, there’s a left-wing version of that too.
Conservatives want the past, not the future. They resist change because it was ok for them.
Until it’s not, and then they want change, but not like you blacks and latinos or pakis or chinkys (I’m paraphrasing ok?)
They want change especially for them, not the other people.
As a and old white male with not family or money.
FUCK THEM.
Meanwhile the men and their harems
I don’t think you understand. The men aren’t getting pregnant, so it’s OK.
#JustConservativeThings
We have the worst “allies” in the Middle East.
The sheikhs don’t abide by any of these repressive rules.
Actually, not one of those men personally gave birth out of wedlock!
/s, although it’s technically true.
For what its worth…the US-Saudi alliance is dead and buried.
Eh. They aren’t blocking Saudi ports, and are intercepting things on the Saudi’s behalf.
Unless you mean that as a prediction for the near future, or something.
Yeah, I guess there is still an alliance. Kinda…sort of…for now… until the US-Iran war ends that is.
But in case it wasn’t plainly obvious: the US failed spectacularly to honor its treaty obligations and defend the Gulf states from attacks.
The US will soon have to retreat from the Strait or Hormuz and afterwards there is no chance in hell that the US will (or even can) commit the forces and resources necessary to rebuild their military bases and capabilities, restore deterrence and honor their original commitments.
The Saudi’s know this. They recently entered into the Mecca Defence Alliance and are actively seeking other partners such as Ukraine to help strengthen their defense.
And just to hammer it home: the US dragged its ‘allies’ into an unwinnable war while ignoring their strong warnings and objections (so much for shared interests…).
Their defense commitments then proved questionable because the US couldn’t prevent the Iranians from dealing massive damage to oil, gas and military infrastructure all across the region.
They then escalated the war, causing the Houthi’s to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait which dragged the Saudi’s even further into this war.
And now that the war is finally nearing its conclusion, the US has depleted its intercepter stockpiles, has lost a lot of its military infrastructure in the region, has pulled many of its air assets from the region and is likely going to accept de facto Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, because they have no leverage whatsoever.
This leaves the Saudi’s reeling from the massive political and economic damage from the war, having to deter a stronger and emboldened Iran, while still being embroiled in a guerilla war with the Houthi’s, being largely unable to defend itself from drone and missile attacks, while losing its primary security guarantor because they just suffered a humiliating strategic defeat.
Oh, and the Iranians are now 100% guaranteed to try and develop nuclear weapons in the next few years and Russia is probably desperate enough to lend them a hand.
Yeah tell me once KSA’s shitty monarchy falls lol.
The running joke is that the Houthis would successfully invade KSA in a matter of days if the US actually left.
We were always in war with Eurasia, the ministry of truth said so
Fuck those religious pieces of shit so shallow to allow a human to be.
The sooner we can get off oil the better for this world.
What in the primitive mentality is this!
say rights groups, which have condemned the punishment as an “act of violence”.
Thanks Captain Obvious!
Strongly worded letter from UN under way!
Even the UN can do better than that. It’s not even a condemnation … pretty sure even the pro-lashing people would agree that it’s an act of violence.
Wonder what would’ve happened for an abortion
And how many for the infant?
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