I was just reading the news and I came across this: In Saudi Arabia a woman from a Shia background is gang-raped by some Sunni men. So what do the authorities do? They gave the 19 yearl old one hundred lashes and sentenced her to some jail time. When she appealed, they doubled her lashes and sentence. What is the apparent "logic"? She was in an unrelated man's car when the attack happened and that she was attempting to use the media to influence the court's decision. Ah yes, Saudi laws on male-female segregation. This only reinforces my antipathy towards the unecessary politicization of religion, draconian measures, and the clerical drudgery and instiutionalism found in the "Kingdom". Establishment Saudi "Liberals" want to talk about reform. But so far it is all talk.