Back in 2008 a young Australian woman named Alicia Gali was drugged and raped by three men at a hotel in Dubai where she was employed. When she went to the police to report the attack — which fractured four of her ribs — she was arrested, charged, and sentenced to a year in prison for having sex outside of marriage. She served eight months of that sentence, crammed into a cell with thirty other women. After she was released, she was deported.
This is Ms. Gali’s story in two parts, from the “Sunday Night” TV program in Australia:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Below are excerpts from the accompanying article:
Abandoned
With Dubai emerging as a major stopover point for long haul journeys, five hundred flights a month will deliver over one million of us to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the next year.
Dubai is being promoted as a luxury high-class paradise in the desert, but the reality is brutally different, as Australian Alicia Gali discovered. Gali took a job in the UAE with one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, Starwood. What happened next makes this story a must-watch for every Australian planning on travelling through the region.
Gali was using her laptop in the hotel’s staff bar when her drink was spiked. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.
Sunday Night emailed Alicia’s employer in the UAE, Starwood Hotels, with a detailed list of questions pertaining to her case. This was their response:
“What happened in June 2008 to Alicia Gali, a former employee of Le Méridien Al Aqah hotel, was deplorable. While the hotel worked diligently on Ms. Gali’s behalf, the authorities investigated and prosecuted Ms. Gali under the local laws. Additionally, the men involved were also prosecuted and each served prison terms before being deported. As for Ms. Gali’s lawsuit against the hotel, we disagree with the allegations.
The hotel management provided support and assistance to Ms. Gali and her family throughout that time,
including assisting with medical support and the investigation, liaising with her representative Australian embassy and coordinating and arranging affairs with her family in Australia. Starwood’s repeated approaches to discuss Ms. Gali’s claim with her attorneys have been ignored and declined. As this matter is part of an open on-going Starwood investigation and litigation commenced by Ms. Gali against Starwood and the Commonwealth of Australia, we cannot comment further at this time.
The safety and security of our associates and guests continues to be a paramount priority.”
We also contacted the Australian government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) with a detailed list of questions regarding Alicia’s case. This was their response:
“The Department rejects Ms Gali’s account of her dealings with the Australian Consulate in Dubai, as suggested in your letter of 7 May 2013. Ms Gali was provided with extensive consular assistance by the Australian Consulate in Dubai. Our consular officers do not give legal advice, but do assist Australians in trouble to obtain local legal advice.
As this matter is subject to ongoing legal proceedings, the Department is unable to respond to the questions raised in your letter or participate in the Sunday Night program. The Department will present its position as necessary during the course of the legal proceedings.”
Hat tip: Kitman.
Pretty obvious why the Australian gov’t wanted to suppress the story. Can’t have this negatively impact the Muslims in Australia (or anywhere for that matter). Besides, no sense upsetting a wealthy Arab country.
Truly disgusting but Westerners, particularly women, need to understand that not only Muslim countries, but any non-Western nation is quite different (to put it mildly) when it comes to laws, enforcement and corruption. Westerners should simply avoid Muslim countries period.
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In 1984 my husband graduated from UNM with a BA in Mechanical Engineering. Countries like the UAI were offering top dollar, and then some, to western graduates to come work in their country. Unfortunately, my husband’s credentials did not match up with what they were looking for, mostly chemical engineers. But, I was hot to move there for a few years to get some dough! There were no perceived threats to westerners at that time.
The last ten years have seen a very different landscape and, as much as I can understand the same motivation, there are some places in the world that a western female should just not go.
One might rail against this, as I do, but reality is like mother nature. Much like a moth is attracted to a flame, it will burn you.
Any woman that is light skinned, even if she works for a western corporation, is asking to fall into trouble no matter how she comports herself in this region of the world. This is not right and this is not just. Unfortunately, it is today’s reality.
Just as a small protest to the treatment given to Alicia Gali, I will instruct my husband to never stay again in a Starwoods hotel chain.
Fast forward 30 years after graduation, my husband nows travels around the world about 5 months out of the year.
To the best of my doing, he will never again stay at a Starwoods hotel chain. This is the only way we can fight this injustice. Our gov’t politicians have something altogether on their minds.
The law of four male witnesses to prove rape is called “Hudna”. It is also the law in Pakistan, another sick, savage semi-civilized country. I expect it is also the law in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Egypt, Sudan, Morrocco, etc.
Unless you have the full set of four (4) male Muslim eyewitnesses, rape can only be avenged by families or clans. Otherwise you take your lumps, tell your daughter to keep her mouth shut, and just deal with it, perhaps by raping THEIR women, or killing their men to preserve your family honor.
If a woman is raped and was drunk at the time (i.e. a “whore”) her family will likely kill her to save their family’s honor. On the other hand, if she was flirting or acting in any way “friendly” to her attacker immediately beforehand and was deemed to have sluttishly encouraged him to rape her, it is likely (although not guaranteed) she will be deemed a whore by her own family and possibly killed (or perhaps only beaten half to death) by them. It is a man’s world–a clan and family world–in Islam.
If she was indeed attacked and raped while merely walking down the street, minding her own business the family/clan/community may respond by killing the offender/s. But again, no trial or even a complaint is possible if there aren’t four male Muslim witnesses. The very fact of making a complaint is a confession of sex on the woman’s part. If she cannot immediately follow up with four male adult Muslim witnesses, she has confessed to a crime by making a complaint.
No normal human being should have anything to do with these animals. Period. They should be expelled from our land as unreconstructed savages.
To a Muslim, a single woman who drinks with men is a whore by definition. Women are not allowed to travel free, largely because anything that happens to them, even gang rape, will be blamed on them and they will be punished ruthlessly.
If you ever wonder why Muslim women are locked up and imprisoned in their homes and why, when they go out, they are shadowed by several male relatives walking a few paces behind all over the Middle East, this movie should explain why. To be safe, no female tourist should go out in the Middle East without four Muslim male bodyguards (preferably family members). If she is attacked and raped, these will be her only legal witnesses.
I do not know why any female from the WEst ever goes to Dubai. They are all liberals, I expect and naturally believe that everyone is the same all over the world.
Eventually the word will out.
Then the Dubai fantasy will sink into the Gulf.
There is no rule of law there — not even Shariah. It’s run by their tribe — and all matters are despotic.
She could’ve owed some money to a local — she’d still be there — under the desert sands somewhere….
It’s illegal to go bankrupt in Dubai.
That’s a line easily crossed — as the locals remake their deals after the fact.
I blame western media for this poor girls ignorance.
You go to the embassy, say you were beaten up and your passport stolen, and ask for help to go home immediately.
ALWAYS take a photocopy of your passport with you – to prove your nationality.
Or avoid islamic countries altogether.
As a western female you should avoid going to ANY Islamic country.
There is a book called “Princess” written by a woman from one of the arab royal families (Saudi, I think) who describes the inner goings-on in these places. Relevant to this post: large sex parties are arranged by these royal men with high class call-girls from Western countries. This happens quite frequently, the book says. If, on the other hand, a royal woman marries a western man, she is likely to be killed (this happened a few years back — the girl was killed by drowning her).
Basically, Islam is not a religion. It is a large-scale version of the phenomenon called David Koresh. Only difference: your feds took out Koresh, while the Meccans weren’t able to kill Mohammed while he was still a small time rapist/thug. It’s a religion that has grown around the sexual exploitation of women. It needs to be called as such, and obliterated.
Post this story on Reddit, and everyone calls you a racist for daring to criticize Islam or Muslims in any form.
This is a great website. shoul be read by the pro terrorist,proiislamic BDS movement against the only non sharia civilized country in the area the notorious country of Isreal
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