Lest you thought erroneously that the dark
ages are a thing of the past, please be informed that just yesterday a woman
was sentenced to ten whiplashes because
*drum roll* she was caught driving a car!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I kid you not. And
this of course takes place in none other than the backward-minded "Kingdom."
I hate to refer to that country, where
beloved Mecca and Medina lie, as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia because, like my
very wise grandmother always said, no country should be name after its rulers.
How can women still face such cruel and
demeaning corporeal punishment in the year 2011--and by order of a judge? What
is wrong with the world?
And before you jump to conclusions about
extremists and Islamic Sharia law, let me tell you that Saudi king and royalty
are not as pious as they would like us to believe. They, and their beloved/favored
ones, are out of the reach of said Sharia law. They do whatever the hell
pleases them and in many instances have to travel far and wide to enjoy
freedom.
So again the case of the Kingdom is merely
a case of chauvinist pigs used religion to exercise their misogyny. It's an age
old trick. Watch the locked up
housewives of Venice in the movie Dangerous Beauty do they remind you of
someone?
Women of the Kingdom, fear not. You will
see the light of freedom, soon I hope--in our lifetime.
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