When Zainab Left Wonderland
This is not the first time that a killer is let loose or with a slap to the wrist around courts here in Bahrain, but how much longer will we be forced to endure the pain and atrocities due to the carelessness of drunk driving? How many more lives have to be ended by some reckless driver under the influence for us to wake up to the seriousness of this issue?
Is it that we don’t have proper deterrent laws when it comes to drunk driving? Is it that we aren’t aware of the problem at hand here? Or is it that our laws are bent when those involved are from neighboring countries?
The judicial system in Bahrain and the region is just a big joke –which is not even funny-, a case like this anywhere else in the world will at least have some time in prison whatever the reasons are, and if this happened less than 100 Kilometers away inside the borders of Saudi Arabia the guy will probably have his head rolling away from his body at the local souk just before the end of the week.
Whatever the justifications are, when someone causes the death of another soul, endangers her child and is ruled innocent you know something is wrong.
One would understand such ridiculous leniency in applying the local laws when it’s something mutual, something that goes both ways in our courts and theirs when the case involves a foreigner from the neighboring GCC country, but that’s clearly not the case here. Below is a story published in AlWasat Newspaper (Thursday 22/11/2007):
So 85 days in custody –and counting- on allegations of “practicing magic” I don’t personally know if it’s a criminal act crime anywhere on the planet, unless were living another day in middle earth in yet another film of the lord of the rings sequence.
One would understand such clemency if it was something common around the local courts to let offenders slip easily, but that’s clearly not the case, the following is a story published right next to that of the innocent drunk driver
So the girl who voluntarily and privately chose to expose the upper part of her body to a group of friends she was out while being filmed by some wacko, this girl needs to spend 6 months in a correctional facility while a reckless drunken killer who confessed to his crime is let loose without even a slap on the wrist?!
Does this judge even know what he caused by this? What law, what religion allows a killer loose without any compensation! Without any punishment! What kind of system is this where a family is ruined, a life is horrifically taken, a kid orphaned, and a man left to face life with an orphan child and seeing with his own eyes the killer walking free out the court of law?
I want to extend my deepest sympathy and prayers to the family of the Ms. Radhi for she has left wonderland, once and for all..
I have been writing letter after letter to the local papers highlighting just this injustice…but I usually focus on the lenient punishment given out to predators who commit sex crimes against women and children. There is no base law in Bahrain ordering a minimum punishment towards criminals if serious crimes….common laborers running away from their sponsors “owners” seem to get more punishment then drunk drivers, speeders, rapists and pedophiles.
People in Bahrain like to rally and protest….I see them gathered and protesting Israel…the US…the ban on hijabs in france…the drawing of cartoons in Denmark…for many things they will protest….but the continued crushing of their basic human rights…their basic right to justice when injustice has been done to them…doesnt seem to stir up much anger or outrage. I just dont get that. the Sharia Courts here are based on the personal whims and understanding of whatever judge happens to be sitting on the case….maybe each and every judge should have to experience personal injustice done to them before they will truly understand the power they hold in their hands…and the awesome chance they have to do the right thing….the Islamic thing according to the Quran…not according to culture, tradition, or some madhab. Very sad.
what can we do moodz? seriously, what can you do when the people in charge of such issues have their heads so far up their butts that they cant see the reality of things here? when they treat each issue as ‘just another day on the job’ when it actually affects so many lives? when the leniancy towards the big issues encourages people to do them as there is no real punishment, while the real punishment is reserved for the most ridiculous of actions? magic? is there no one to supervise the people who set the laws and uphold them? no one to keep them in check?
Not to mention that I know a friend’s cousin has recently been convicted of drugs possession in KSA while trying to cross the causeway using a friend’s car. He was sentenced to death and is currently being held there. In court, they told him that “We KNOW that you have nothing to do with this and that this is your friend’s car, but you have to be sentenced to death for possession of drugs”. The poor guy had just gotten engaged and was arrested while heading to KSA with his fiance and sister in law. Good for nothing camel shaggers.
@LiB Team:
Good to have you back around bro; but according to local press, the guy you talked about is still in custody awaiting prosecution, all the talk about him being sentenced to death are all rumors, his case is personally being followed by Mr. Faisal Fulad (Who stinks of Shamander btw) but that’s a different story altogether.
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