I didnt know before about this cruel crime against this young lady ,i didnt know about the story of the princess “Mashaal” the daugther of king Fahd Al Saud the king of Saudia .
Mashaal was executed in public by her family for alleged adultery in 1977.
in 1980 the BBC made the documenatry Death of a Princess , with Egyptian and arab cast among them “Sawsan Badr” who played the role of MaShaal and “Samir Sabri” both of them had troubles after doing this film.
Since years and till now we see The Saudian Royal family members here in Cairo to have fun in night clubs with women and belly dancers, and in their prisons a lot of innocents Saudians ,and everyone who dare to opposit the royal family , this family is known as the most cruel against the opposition and the most corrupted and they violate human rights , a lot of vitims for this family and one of them is Mashaal.
It tells The fate of an Arab princess who was publicly executed for alleged adultery immediately caught Antony Thomas’ interest. When he started to investigate her story, he found a wealth of fascinating material and very personal views on what really happened, but nobody who was prepared to speak on camera. This led him to the drama documentary solution he found: the main character is his alter-ego, the British journalist Christopher Ryder, who travels through the Arab world to research and piece together the story of the princess. With every person he meets, Ryder and the viewer get closer to the real motives and learn to distinguish myths from facts. Scenes that suggest adultery under the cover of the veil and the execution of the princess without prior trial were especially controversial and seen as a challenge to the authority of the Saudi Royal Family and their relationship with the West. When Death of A Princess was first broadcast in the UK it resulted in a diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Britain that led as far as the expulsion of the British Ambassador.
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1 stranger // Mar 18, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I have never heard of such execution. i have been living in saudi arabia for 18 years now (i am not a saudi) and i havent heard of such story instead i find more security and clamness over here, maybe because of this strict rule here. well as the world knows this country is having the lowest rate of crime, aids, HIV, and rapes and if this is because of this strict rule, then i want to live in this kind of ruling country.
2 Saud // Mar 29, 2009 at 5:51 am
March 29, 1:55 AM
The Country of Saudi Arabia, has undergone many trials: First the Faith is under constant challenge, then the Culture is resented and Saudi Arabian Ancestral people are resented for their being gentle folk by nature, immigrants received draw axe on the innocent sheep they lead to the slaughter, community life dwindles and the ancestral Arab losses it’s countenance among the chaos development; who is to blame? The game the Saudi Arab Ancestral found themselves helpless to took on loud lifestyles, and the life of this Princess was to resemble Adultery, even though she seems to have been behavior modified by her surrounding influences?
I disagree that the Princess is to stand alone in this execution, and too, attend onto guiding all to contemplate how they influenced her misbehavior? To be a religious woman, one does not always assume a position of ‘ being without error, in judgment’?
Much of the Royal life in Saudi Arabia, is now mixed with misguided knowledge, due to the various Royal alerts necessary for maintaining ones identity in the growing fraudulent identity sieges attempted? I know that most fraud begins at home, but it ends up in the streets of meddlers carrying dangerous ideas as to ‘how to play with the catnip in the newly placed toy’?
A once strong family, now awaits aid from people caring more about rights then about service? It is not who God appointed you to be, but that you allow God the right to have appointed you who ‘He’ originally appointed ‘You’ to be: God gave Life without confusion, and Man chose of his/her own Will to dismantle the harmonies His Original Will installed?
All of the remorse in the world will never bring justice to the – Execution of a Princess; they are not greatly special but often vulnerable to the hardships of ‘Crafts designed by the implementation of lies, deceptions, and placed before honor parlor games’.
No one should expect more from a Princess then they do from themselves; too much love and not enough truth is ‘Death of an Empire’?
To the Princess – My Love, My regret; and my disappointment in the free Will of those who mishandled Mankind and its’ desire for central-self passion euphoria lifestyle.
3 yessenia // Aug 1, 2009 at 7:51 am
i want to know the boys name… i guess he was the nephew of the lebanese ambassador, saudi boy.. anyone know? and why in mwt amirah did noone mention her name mashaal they mostly just said “your princess”
4 Sam // Oct 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm
The Saudis and their treatment of women are grotesque, plain and simple.
To Stranger – to praise Saudi Arabia as much as you have, you clearly are a man. Of course the rate of crimes, rape, and HIV is low in Saudi Arabia – do you really think the Saudi government would publish figures revealing the truth? I would take a bet that the rate of HIV is escalating, and that the rate of rapes is one of the highest in the world. Obviously, no woman there is going to report it since her family’s “honor” will be smeared.
5 Sanaz // Dec 24, 2009 at 1:57 am
I agree with Sam. Honor killing is one of the worst crime against women in the arab world. Only women endure this. Princess Mashaal was a victim of an honor killing.
In Saudi Arabia there are low rape rate, mostly because the rapes are not reported, since in the police station the women are re-raped because they consider her already disgraced and take advantage, and others are stoned to death because they are accused to have commited adultery. The big guys of Saudi Arabia have poor Iranian childrens as salves, etc..
A model of a good nation indeed.
Of course, they once were a great nation, with great intelectual, engineers, architects, artists, powerful women who led armies side-by-side with men and had equal voice.
Now, like my own country Iran, all that glory have past and turned to medieval mindset and cruelty, specialy against women and free will.
May God help us to get our glory back and cope with the time we have lost.
6 Saudi girl // Mar 15, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Many years ago my family immigrated from Saudi, when my father decided to go back to Saudi my mother killed him, though she was NOT judged guilty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You want to know why?
Shy told her story with the true story of her heart. This is what she said: ” As god is my witness, I have been raped by the man who was my husband, I have been tortured by him and he has used me as slave. Like every Saudi female is treated in Saudi Arabia. If he was still a live this would also have been my daughters destiny.
7 eissa // Mar 23, 2010 at 5:52 am
saudi girl u said the what happend to the princess was wrong when they murder her, after she comit a sin and she admit it , let say i am with u with that ,but what i am going to say about ur mother the one she murder a man with no reson ??????
i will just tell u that jugde who let ur mother go free without taking off her head he is not a jugde,
he is a murder just like ur mother , case that jugde and ur mother is not God to take someone’s life no matter what is her resone , and i am sorry to hear that ur proud of what ur mother did
case if that jugde let her go that didn’t mean she is not gulty.
ur mother is a murder as the same as any criminal who kill a soul for any reasone
8 kuwait man // May 29, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Well..The whole thing is wrong from the start. giving power to men in muslem communities will allways make them take advantage of this relegion. I’m muslem and I traveled to west, There are also bad men in west trying to act “manly” against their wives or girlfriens, But could they? the answer is NO. In fact they go to jail if they caused a tiny scratch on their body plus they pay $$ for it as well. It’s all about religion we have to give our women something…We have to separate religion from our laws. women are the half of community and they are not dummies. Islam screwed up women big time
9 khadija // Nov 19, 2011 at 11:17 pm
ok i am a bit late in joining this but as far as i am consernd islam dose not screw up woman its the men in power who do people have to learn to seperate culture and religon for wot thay done to the princess is wrong no one on this earth has the power or the right to take some1s life dats allah swt job and if sum muslim men out there actuly learned there deen properly then all this trouble would not be happing dose any1 think out there our beloved prophet pbuh treated woman in such ways of course not i am a reverted muslima from the uk and my teacher is a saudi man and he is the kindist sweetis man u would ever meet the problem is and dis inculdes saudia thay dont teach eshaan anymore and dat would teach dem how to treat ppl and everything around dem these r not muslim men these men commite such crimes but think because thay go to friday prayers that makes it ok well it dosnt and am also talking about muslim men in the uk too in islam our wifes daugthers sisters r ment to be protected and tresured not beating trampled and raped ppl who comite des crimes r not really muslim from the heart and islamic law is ment to protect the woman too and the ppl who value there family honor over there dugthers wifes and sisters make me sick !!!!!!
10 wohnungen augsburg // Nov 29, 2011 at 10:07 pm
ich eigentlich davon web site will eher Betracht. Ich werde wahrscheinlich aller Wahrscheinlichkeit einmal zu read weit , vielen Dank für die Info.
11 wohnungen augsburg // Jan 7, 2012 at 4:47 pm
So ist eine gute Augsburger Altstadt Teil dieser heutigen Innenstadt, während Dies Augsburger Textilviertel teilweise in Spickel-Herrenbach, teilweise in der Innenstadt liegt und ebenfalls so ebenfalls überhaupt nicht Zusammen mit den Stadtbezirken Erwähnung findet.
12 fettabsaugung // Jan 10, 2012 at 12:09 am
Die zu große, gesetztheit Brust (Cup Durchmesser eines kreises ansonsten etliche) kann nicht nur ein ästhetisches Problem, sondern auch ein körperliches sein.
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