Religious rape

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Gob
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Religious rape

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A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.

Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after the court ruled that he was guilty of rape by deception. According to the complaint filed by the woman with the Jerusalem district court, the two met in downtown Jerusalem in September 2008 where Kashur, an Arab from East Jerusalem, introduced himself as a Jewish bachelor seeking a serious relationship. The two then had consensual sex in a nearby building before Kashur left.

When she later found out that he was not Jewish but an Arab, she filed a criminal complaint for rape and indecent assault.

Although Kashur was initially charged with rape and indecent assault, this was changed to a charge of rape by deception as part of a plea bargain arrangement.

Handing down the verdict, Tzvi Segal, one of three judges on the case, acknowledged that sex had been consensual but said that although not "a classical rape by force," the woman would not have consented if she had not believed Kashur was Jewish.

The sex therefore was obtained under false pretences, the judges said. "If she hadn't thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have cooperated," they added.

The court ruled that Kashur should receive a jail term and rejected the option of a six-month community service order. He was said to be seeking to appeal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju ... al-sex-jew
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Re: Religious rape

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Just when you think you've seen it all, a court of a supposedly progressive democracy comes out with a verdict like this. All the more rason why church and state should be spearate; does anyone think the verdict would have been the same if the woman had been a Palestinian and the man was an Israeli ptretending to be moslem?

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Re: Religious rape

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Someone in the mideast is always getting screwed.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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Re: Religious rape

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How about this for a chat up line: "Excuse me, does my hankie smell of chloroform to you?"
If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?

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