By Andrew L. Jaffee

A girl from the Shiite minority was gang-raped 14 times — and what does the Saudi justice system do? It punishes the victim, sentencing the girl to 90 lashes. When the girl dared appeal the sentence, a court increased her sentence to 200 lashes. One may ask, “How could this misogynistic insanity get worse!?” Well, it has:

… On November 27, Okaz newspaper published an interview with Judge Dr. Ibrahim bin Salih al-Khudairi of the Appeals Court in Riyadh, in which he said that he would have sentenced her to death. …

Of course, this is all being done in the name of G#d:

… The Justice Ministry maintained, however, that the ruling was legal and followed the “the book of God and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad,” noting that she had “confessed to doing what God has forbidden.” …

Or, as Bob Dylan put it, “With God on Our Side.” Same song, different players…

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Related: Arab/Muslim World, Islam, Law, Human Rights, Feminism

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