The world is going crazy

So many idiotic things are going on, well, at least it seems like with a higher than normal frequency. So here are a couple of moronic things going on overseas (I'll hit the idiocy that is happening on the domestic front shortly).


Firstly, a young Saudi woman was sentenced to 90 lashes for being caught unchaperoned with a young man, which came to light because a gang of males had been arrested for repeatedly raping both of them. Then only her sentence was increased to 200 lashes including six months of prison for speaking out to the press. This hurt the judges feelings, I guess. Apparently, the rapists were given light punishments, considering the types of offenses committed, while the girl and her companion are severely penalized for defying Shari'a law (unrelated males and females are not allowed to be alone without guardian or chaperone). The couple is judged a pair of fornicators (or attempting to become ones) even when there is no proof that anything has occurred. Meanwhile, the men who penetrate the bodies of an unrelated female (and not to forget the male, for that matter), especially when it was against their will, get off with what amounts to a slap on the wrist. Of course, she and her companion knew the law, but the fact that the Muslim-extremists are so blind to the double-standard of the practiced Islamic religion. The sexual perverts get off with little penalties, while the rape victim is victimized by her "protectors". Wow... this is making my head hurt. Here's a link to the original BBC news article.


Another case of punishment not fitting the crime, in Sudan, a British teacher allows her students to pick a name for the class teddy bear. The students come up with "Muhamed", authorities find out and the teacher is (initially) sentenced to 40 lashes, 6 months of imprisonment, a fine and of course deportation. People protested the sentence, which has now been reduced to 15 days, no lashes and deportation. Again, here is someone who knows that she is in a country whose government is known to be unrelenting in its enforcement of the Islamic religion. She should have known better, but the intent was not to spread anti-Muslim sentiments which I understand to be the principle rule used when deciding punishment. Now there are protests by Sudanese people who are calling for her head... Read the BBC article.