Here’s the case. A woman is gang-raped and her attackers are apprehended and tried. They each get between 1 and 5 years in prison. She is sentenced also, to 90 lashes, for being along in a car with one of the men. Her lawyer, shocked at the leniency shown to the rapists, appeals the case and complains about the sentences. A court decides to increase the sentence: the victim will now receive 200 lashes and spend a few months in jail and her lawyer has been disbarred in his country and must face a review board.
Just another day in Saudi Arabia where the Islamists are busy exporting that Sharia law all around the world, including to the United States.
I can’t help but wonder where the womens’ rights groups are right now? If there was ever a case tailor-made for their sort of relentless activism, it’s this one. At the very least they should be on every television screen haranguing the President as they do so very well (unless his name is Clinton, of course) to stop talking about Saudi Arabia and actually do something.
The President absolutely needs to step up on this. We send the Saudis an awful lot of our money in foreign aid. That much money can make a very effective crowbar to exploit the cracks between the Islamists and the few Saudis who think that beating a woman for being uppity is just a bit out of line. Not that there are many of those, but I can’t help but think that most Saudi women might be in favor not not getting brutalized at the whim of some strange man.
(via memeorandum)
Our president walks hand in hand with Saudi rulers (kings). That doesn’t sound too American to me. So what are we? A subservient nation of Saudi Arabia or are we our own nation? Lets ask Mr Bush.