Saudi girl gets 90 lashes for bringing cell phone to school

It's a freaking cell phone. what was she going to do picture everyone to death, assuming it's one of those Camera cell phones.

This is a clear case of where the punishment does not match the crime.

Check out this link...
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=201001...
For more information on what really happened...or The National from UAE

This punishment could kill her! Can anyone with total conviction say that this child should die for bringing her cell phone to school? We are also getting very little facts about the situation. Every report is the same. What did the administrator say or do before she was assaulted by the child? What would bring a 13 year old girl, living under Sharia law, to physically hit any authority?

This punishment/consequence can kill her and I don't think that it is a logical, or natural consequence to her actions. However, I'm not convinced we are getting all the facts of the story. She's a 13 year old child living under strict law...does anyone honestly think she'd assault a school administrator for getting her cell phone taken away? I work with kids her age and I doubt it. We are only getting a very small glimpse of what happened here.

In answer to your post Rolffz...I agree that we should discipline our kids, but can you really say that she should potentially die for bringing a cell phone to school just because she didn't follow the rules?

umm... if u give ur kid everything he/she wants then he/she wont be a brat thx very much and 90 whips seriously i would give hur atleast 10 because they can kill hur and hur parents can sew them for killing hur. so how would u feel if thatwas ur child? huh? so yah and if u wanna run ur mouth about it then go ahead so if u wanna be a brat then go where she is and do what she did or do sumthing tat ur not suppose to do and then c how she feels. ohh yah and dont forget shes yunger so yah go ahead and run your mouth. i think it a wrong thing to do atleast give her 10 lashes and then give her a warning so yah. and i think tat kids should be able to bring their cell phones to skool. what if its an emergancy and u need to tell them because i am a kid i am 12 and yah i do care so thx very much. >:(

In response to those of you that commented about how wrong we are in America let me say this...we are not subject to "shariah" and our country is not enslaved by a radical view of religion. We have many views and we all have a voice. We are as free as we allow ourselves to be. Yes America has problems but this isn't a discussion of "those who live in glass houses". There is wrong everywhere there is people and we are not exempt. Anyone who does wrong doing should be held accountable.

This punishment is harsh and unjust reguardless of her "attack". She is 13 and is surely incapable of fully understanding the results of her actions being at the maturity level the average 13 year old is.

To the man who agrees with the punishment talking about how people do not respect the law like they should, you're guilty of something but you will almost certainly never get a lashing for anything.

I cannot personally defend Islam, I do not see the peace in it and believe it is something ugly. Everyone that says "this is not islam" every time a story is posted about radicals, extremists or shariah law how do you constantly defend a religion who's practioners justify their actions with their faith? A religion which looks the other way for a murderer because he killed a infedel? For everyone who says "this is not islam" you are wrong and you don't want to believe it. Read a newspaper and see what is being done in the name of islam. It is what it is.

If our greed doesn't destroy us our religions will.

jesus Christ thats insane!! 90 lashings for bring a cell phone... but on the other hand the girl should have followed the rules set by that school.but that does not make it right to give a little girl 90 lashings.

disgusted.

america needs to stop coddling their children. I am really surprised that the desensitizing of our nation has not allowed people to believe in this form of punishment. especially since even if it would kill them, they'd still have a few more lives left before the game was over. kill kill kill! go for the high score! (you weak spineless wimps!) I'm not a believer in big time gov't control and heavy laws, but if there are restrictions that someone puts down before hand in anything, I at least respect them whether I agree with them or not. wake up america. you're getting owned by so much and so many and you're going along with it like lemmings over the cliff and into the ocean below. it's not coming from the muslims, the chinese or the russians, it's coming from within your own country you blind fools! welcome to the real new world order. like it or not its happening now, a generation at a time, right before your very eyes. you are the ones that can generate change and resistance, but you choose to sit on your hands and hide behind your computer and tv and take the spoon fed crap you are told is the truth. i'll repeat...wake up america!

Gas up ypur SUV and Gas guzzling car so the United States can continue to buy oil from a tyrannical government, the house of Saud. If people really cared they would act, not talk. Cut your gas consumption, its time to stop supporting countries who have oil who are dictatorships, who would resort to flogging as punishment for any small act of defiance.
Through our consumption of oil we support the very acts we decry, a dichotomy that can no longer be ignored.

lashing and jail for a cell phone? thats a little drastic..

their rules; their dinner table.

yayy another example of how the world we live in is completely f%^$#Ck3d up. i cant let this story (or others of the same disturbing caliber) effect me emotionally or my outlook on reality or i may finallly begin to sip the cool-aid of pessimism towards society.

I don't understand myself. I'm torn between "That's awful!" and "Ooo! Me next!" But no. Really. That's not cool. And I wonder if 90 lashes counts as a just punishment, then what is assault?

Sick or not, didn't the report say the girl also assaulted her teacher after she was discovered with the cellphone? She is being made an example of, plain and simple. If such disrespect is to be deterred, it may need to be this severe...I bet you no one else brings a cellphone and then beats up their teacher.

Horse Shit!

Why doesn't this say "SAUDI GIRL GIVEN 60 LASHES FOR ASSAULT" because it wouldn't be news that's why.

Oh, how easily you forget America!

I'm only 30 years old and I remember my ELEMENTARY School teacher game me 20 lashes with a belt IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS! It was only recently that America got all "PC" and "Only Evil people hit their kids"

This story is garbage, quit wasting our time with this crap.

"If atheism is a religion, then health is a disease" - Clark Adams

It's overkill for a 13 year old on the 1st infraction. Should have addressed the issue with her husband first. It could be her husband wanted her to have a cell phone so she could be available when he wants to talk to her. :)

You just never know what can happen these days.

ah the peace loving religion of islam

Perhaps we should have attacked them to stop the terrorism flowing .

Spare the rod spoil the child, however 90 lashes is out of control. Should have had her mother bitch slap her like her husband does it to her.

Yes terrible how bad they are in Saudi. What are you covering up today in the US news about congressmen that you need this story today to tell us how bad somebody else is in their country?

Things are pretty bad in this country. Like little kids getting handcuffed and taken to police stations for misbehaving in public schools in the south? This is pretty shocking to me.

3M Americans in jail, most for non-violent offenses because of lack of economic opportunity in communities where the "laissez-faire" capitalists can't find anything profitable to invest in.

More profitable that is than continuous unacknowledged crypto- kepto- covert Keynesian military spending redistribution from the bottom to the top that made four new rich counties in the State of Virginia during the last 30 years post-Reagan and his "downsizing" government project. And people in those Northern Virginia counties don't think they should pay a tax increase?

Sorry, I agree that the US oil companies profiting from Medieval Monarchies who have violated human righs since the Brits had the empire before we did, their decades of Petro-$$$ paid to orthodox Wahhabist maddrasses to train arch conservatives who become terrorists, and the CIA working hard to make sure they stay in power are really really bad for us to have been implicated in.

But, with these emotional stories taken totally out of context you are diverting American voters your silly news entertainment cable channel from issues at home that are far worse for our lives and futures. I know you're trying to make us feel better about our situations with stories of how bad it is somewhere else, but that kind of media practice is called Demagoguery 101!

This girl will die from this. The U.S. would rather portray countries like Saudi Arabia and China as caring countries with problems. CNN later ran a video of an Elephant in a chinese marketplace collecting donations for Haiti Disaster. If countries have nothing to offer us, that is when they become cast by the wayside.

bitch got what she deserved

oh hell no. lol, I pity the fool that attempts to lash my children.

This is not a conflict of just the girl's rights, it is a conflict of all people's rights. To do this, in the name of religion, which it clearly is, is nothing less than sickening.

So a member of Abu Dhabi’s royal family can rape, torture and almost kill a person, on VIDEO!!, but a young girl can't have a cell phone... I see the big difference!!

"She had assaulted her headmistress after being caught with the gadget"

Oh I see, So the sentence is actually for "assaulting" a teacher and not for simply carrying a cell phone to school as the headline and video states.

CNN and Jack-ass Cafferty should learn to report facts and not create them.

This makes me glad that I live in the U S of A !!!

Physical violence is always wrong. In the states she would be expelled or at least suspended, which is appropriate (she did assault her teacher).

The punishment is abuse, plain and simple, not to mention quite twisted. I wonder if she could just change schools.

It doesn't seem that the lashes were for the cell phone, but for the assault on the teacher. The question remains, what exactly was the nature of her assault on the teacher and was it completely unjustified? Either which way though I can't condone that many lashes, unless the girl pulled a knife or something (Highly unlikely)...

Screwed up in any case!

90 is a too much...she did break the rules....but who are we to say what is right and what is wrong, when you have a group of teenagers in Pa beat a man to death and get away with it....

I wish they could enforce this same rule at my local library.

15 of the 19 hijackers and we're still kissing their asses?

This is VERY sick. This is cruel punishment and if there ever were a reason to go to war against Islam, it should be for their Sharia law.

I don't support laws that are in violation of human rights.

This is NOT sick. If there were rules laid down then why didn't she (or her parents) make sure they were followed. Perhaps we need to not be so soft on our children and teach them about rules. Why do you think so many kids are the way they are today? It's because no one has disciplined them or taught them right from wrong. Kids disrespecting their parents and other 'authorities'.
I say lash her. Teach her a lesson if she refuses to follow rules.
No wonder our nations prisons are so full.
Wake up america.