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  • johnpi 12:29 pm on October 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Israeli study: Rape more traumatic than terrorism.

    Victims of rape suffer from higher levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than victims of war or terror, a new study reveals.

    The research could bring about new approaches to the way rape victims in Israel are treated.

    The study was carried out by Dr. Avigal Mor and Dr. Moshe Farchi from the Social Work department at the Tel Hai Academic College in northern Israel.

    PTSD levels in different types of trauma victims were compared, including victims of rape, victims of war and terror, people hurt in traffic accidents, people diagnosed with severe diseases and people who lost someone dear to them.

    The study found that victims of rape and sexual assault developed much higher levels of PTSD than other types of trauma.

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  • johnpi 2:59 pm on October 6, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    The west African nation of Guinea, 85 percent Muslim, saw a savage attack on an opposition demonstration at a stadium where nearly 50,000 had gathered to protest the military government. Rape by groups of soldiers figured prominently in the violence.

    157 were reported slain by the military,

    But even more than the shootings, the attacks on women — horrific anywhere, but viewed with particular revulsion in Muslim countries like this one — appear to have traumatized the citizenry and hardened the opposition’s determination to force out the leader of the military junta, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara.
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    Rape is a fairly common tool of military repression in Africa, but large-scale violence against women has not been a previous government tactic here. “This time, a new stage has been reached,” said Sidya Touré, a former prime minister who was also beaten at the stadium and said he had witnessed brutalities there. “Women as battlefield targets. We could never have imagined that.”

    “Where could people get the idea to start raping women in broad daylight?” Mr. Touré asked, in an interview at his home here. “It’s so contrary to our culture.”

    Opposition leaders are asking for a “force of intervention to protect us from the ferocity of the Guinean Army.”

    I personally remain distracted by the idea of a Muslim group like Hizb ut-Tahrir seeking to bring military governments into power in Muslims nations when these kinds of governments have a long track record of coercive debauch.

     

  • johnpi 11:45 am on October 4, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
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    Gang-raped woman gets a year in jail and one hundred lashes in Saudi Arabia.

    A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus.

    The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long.

    The girl claimed that she became pregnant soon after and went to King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces in an attempt to carry out an abortion. She was eight weeks’ pregnant then, the hospital confirmed.

    According to the ruling, the woman will be sent to a jail outside Jeddah to spend her time and will be lashed after delivery of her baby who will take the mother’s last name.

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  • johnpi 5:57 pm on March 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Mukhtar Mai, Pakistani gang-rape victim and internationally celebrated activist, gets married.

    A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo _ she just got married.

    Mukhtar Mai is now the second wife of Nasir Abbas Gabol, a police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained notoriety. He said she was reluctant to accept his offer and that he threatened suicide when she turned him down.

     

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