BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Then we ALLOW these bastards to come here and wonder why they abuse women and kill innocent Americans? Drachonian doesn't even cover it! ~~~~~ A 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was caught with a mobile camera phone. The girl, who has not been named, was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the eastern city of Jubail. She had assaulted her headmistress after being caught with the gadget which is banned in girl schools, said Al-Watan, a Saudi newspaper. The kingdom's use of such punishments has been widely condemned by human rights organisations. A criminal gets a public flogging by two officials in Saudi Arabia Brutal: public floggings, such as in this archive picture, are a common punishment handed down by religious courts in Saudi Arabia Three years ago 16 schoolchildren, aged between 12 and 18, were each sentenced to between 300 and 500 lashes for being aggressive to a teacher. Under Saudi's Sharia o...

RAPE VICTIM PARDONED "Reportedly" the Saudi woman sentenced to 200 lashes because she APPEALED? Has been pardoned. The judges say she was "having an illicit affair." Um... how did the men who jumped her and her friend in the car KNOW they were having an affair? Was there a sign on the window? Or is that another misogynistic excuse? She and the man in the car deny an affair and continue to deny it. I have a number of male friends. JUST friends. (I don't date because my PTSD is so profound now I stay away from any sort of emotional involvement.) Male friends have driven me to doctor appointments and hospital appointments - as well as sat with me in the hospital or while having a test done. Does that merit raping me and them? In Saudi Arabi it does. Not a place I want to visit. Ever. Rape is a serious crime. This woman and man have to live with the shame, memory and fear for the REST OF THEIR LIVES. Rape is intimate violence. You never fully recover m...

RELIGION OF (gag) PEACE - STRIKES A BLOW AT WOMEN'S RIGHTS... AGAIN (TEHRAN) Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and ten lashes. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also lambasted the West for using women as a tool to advertise products, make money and to satisfy "disorderly and unlawful sexual needs," state television said. He was addressing a group of women, most dressed conservatively in head-to-toe black chadors, in Tehran ahead of Thursday's anniversary of the birth of Prophet Mohammad's daughter, Fatima, when Iran honors mothers and women. Campaigners say Iranian women face difficulties in getting a divorce and criticize inheritance laws they say are unjust and the fact their court testimony is worth half that of a man's. The Islamic Republic rejects allegations it is discriminating against women, saying...