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Saudi Cleric Confesses to Murdering 5-Year-Old Daughter Over Virginity Concerns — Gets a Fine & Brief Jail Time

Feb. 3, 2013 4:46pm Erica Ritz

Saudi Cleric Fayhan al Ghamdi Kills 5 Year Old Daughter Over Virginity Concerns, Gets Light Prison Sentence and a Fine

This photo from women’s rights activist Manal Alsharif’s Facebook page claims to show Fayhan Ghamdi (Photo: Facebook/We Are Supporting Manal Alsharif)

A prominent Saudi cleric has received a light prison sentence after confessing to beating his 5-year-old daughter to death over concerns about her virginity.

Saudi media reports say Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a frequent guest on Islamic television programs, also raped his daughter before being charged with murder in November.

Gulf News has some of the horrifying details:

[5-year-old] Lama Al Ghamdi was admitted to hospital on December 25, 2011 with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns, the activists said. She died last October 22.

Fayhan Al Gamdi, an Islamic preacher and regular guest on Muslim television networks, confessed to having used cables and a cane to inflict the injuries, the activists from the group “Women to Drive” said in a statement.

They said the father had doubted Lama’s virginity and had her checked up by a medic.

Randa Al Kaleeb, a social worker from the hospital where Lama was admitted, said the girl’s back was broken and that she had been raped “everywhere”, according to the group. [Emphasis added]

This photo circulating on social media sites claims to show Lama Ghamdi before she was killed. (Photo: YouTube via Russia Today)

But the cleric was freed last week after serving a short prison term and agreeing to pay $50,000 in “blood money” to the family of the girl’s mother. According to the BBC, it is roughly half of what he would have had to pay had the murdered child been male.

Gulf News reports that the ruling is based on national law that men cannot be executed for killing their children or their wives.

But the backlash has been fierce in Saudi Arabia. A social media campaign gaining momentum Sunday is the latest attempt to use the Internet to pressure the kingdom’s ultraconservative rulers to hand down a harsher punishment.

Countless Twitter users are using the hashtag #AnaLama, Arabic for “I am Lama,” in association with the story.

The news comes soon after Al-Arabiya publicized another Saudi cleric’s call to have female babies wear the burka, so there is less chance they will be sexually molested.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Comments (217)

SpeakSoftlyAndCarry
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:07am
These Muslims are despicable! I read a recent article about Sweden having the 2nd highest number of rapes in the world and 77% of those rapes are perpetuated by Muslims.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/1-in-4-swedish-women-will-be-raped-as-sexual-assaults-increase-500/
And these people have the nerve to call the U.S. the Great Satan…Sheeesssh!

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Obamalarky
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:12pm
If he has doubts about her virginity it is more than likely because he was raping her, freakin pervert. Nothing short of a slow painful demise is fit for this piece of trash.

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Disabledvet
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:50pm
what a sick F***, that Rag head should have his junk cut off and turned into a woman, even raping his own 5 year daughter, can I please have 30 minutes alone with him, I promise I wont kill him, I want him to feel every bit of the pain I would put on him to including raping him in the rear with a table leg.
And I see signs from the liberals that they want to make peace in the middle east, screw tht nuke the sick F*****.

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eramthgin
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:16pm
This is what I got from the read. He was concerned about her virginity so he had to rape and sodomise her to make sure that she was a virgin. Then afterwards he beat her to death. Hmmm Peaceful Religion.

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2bfree
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:09pm
This is an Evil, Evil, Evil religion. How can anyone condone this type of behavior and call it good and just? They are the sick, vile pigs and monkeys that they are so fond of calling us Westerners. May the real God have mercy on thier souls.

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- Disabledvet
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:52pm
  No may the real GOD not have mercy on their soles, send them to hell to burn.
  
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Bamagal0007
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:39pm
Hey libs…Tell us again who is raging a war on women???

Poor little girl…Mom, where are you?

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fgarvin
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:00pm
Who is this slim kidding, he molested the poor child then tried to cover it up with his religion. This is exactly why Islam is so dangerous, or any religion that allows, “In the name off.” Just because this guy is still allowed to walk among the living, I’m going to go and throw pigs ears at the local Sh1thouse known as a Mosque! If you get them on the roof, they don’t even know that they have been unsanctified for a long time. Much fun.

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blazingaway
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:44pm
Oh and the only people in their stupid damn mosques are men … so one doesn’t need to worry about killing women and children … kill these people they are vile. Obama loves these sick people

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blazingaway
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:40pm
The ONLY WAY to settle, end, the Muslim issue is to kill all of their religious leadership and free the people from these demonically controlled sick F.u.c.k.s … just bomb all of there mosques when they are full of people and put an end to these stupid insane people

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