Dutch woman sentenced for adultery after being raped in Qatar!

Sharia law at work

A court in Doha has sentenced a Dutch woman to a year in prison after it ruled she had committed adultery after having sex out of wedlock. The woman alleged she had been drugged at a night club in Doha, Qatar and had woken up in an unknown apartment while being raped. The sentence was suspended and the 22-year old woman will be deported to the Netherlands once the verdict becomes official. According to state broadcaster Al Jazeera, the man who had committed the sexual act was a Syrian who claimed that the sex was consensual sex. He was also found guilty and will receive 140 lashes for the sexual act and public drunkenness. Qatar, which will host the 2022 World Cup adheres to strict Islamic law called ‘Sharia’. It will be interesting to see how the country deals with the influx of large numbers of foreigners with very different cultural backgrounds.