Asking for Lashes

Written about a case in Saudi Arabia where a woman was caught having extramarital sex in a car, then gang raped by several men who caught them in the act. She was sentenced to 6 months in prison and 200 lashes.

It's something I can't explain
Why you think she wished for such pain
We may not agree with what she did
But what happened to her we can never forgive

Seven of Satan's sons took her for fun
Leaving a mind in shreds, a body torn red
For seeing her with another not her own
The sight of flesh caused their desire
But it's she who must burn in the moral fire

The courts say it's a violation of high law
This so called high phopah supersedes their brutality
Because she did not repent
She must have deserved all she would get

200 is the price she must pay
200 is the only way
Lash after lash shall judicially cleanse
Will they then feel vindicated and justified
That this so called villain payed the price for her violation
200 lashes for a wandering eye
If only she had been born a son
The court would have turned a blind eye

Author's Note

This one is one of those WTF moments. I think we must all realize that there is univeral morality. Everyone should be entitled, with in reason, to the pursuit of happiness and the freedom from being harmed by others. Hiding behind tradition or religion is just cowardly. I respect the right of people to believe what they want, so long as it doesn't get me stepped on in the process. This horrid treatment of people has to end, but unfortunately I doubt it so long as people fear those things that lurk inside. Was the lady wrong for the affair, absolutely, but she didn't deserve to be violated. Those guys just lacked self control, they used their religion to let their demons out, which is the worse thing you can do to your God or gods, or whatever you believe.

Reviews

[L.G. Knight]

This is something that hits close to home for me... my sister married a muslim man and spent much time in his country... where she was granted no freedom to be who she was... during this time her family wondered what happened to the person she used to be... the outspoken wonderfully blunt and outrageoiusly truth and beautiful person we all knew and loved... We feared for her safety for her life even as she was never one to let someone else dictate what she could and could not or WOULD and WOULD not do... Thankfully she made it through that period in time by being strong and resiliant... when she realized what she had gotten herself into she patiently bided her time and when she was back in the states she filed for divorce.... Something she could not do in her husbands country.

I find what happened to this woman particularly repelling because I know quite well that it could have been my sister if she'd had even one mishap with her veil or had she one time lifted her hem to walk over a puddle and noone would have given it a second look if it had...

This is a powerful statement, very touching and very truthful, the flow and rhymes are wonderfully done I like how you kind of mixed those rhymes up a bit kept the readers attention... Over all I think it was a very well done piece with a very important message and I encourage you to keep right on cranking out pieces with this much depth and signifigance... wonderfully done m'friend.... wonderfully done...

~Frances~