Saudi Rape victim is sentenced

[Kevin]

Respect their culture? Bullcrap.. when a culture has norms such as this, other civilizations are not required to respect them. We ought to condemn them.

This sort of punishment could only be carried out by barbaric animals.

That said, the world community will likely be mum. We can't threaten a country like Saudi Arabia with sanctions, but damn... this is a good example why the religious political wing in any country is something to be feared.

This is much like Darfur. Should we ignore the genocide going on there simply because the sovereign government there says it's okay since it's supposedly religiously justified? Hell no. None of this is okay.

To be clear, I don't see this as anything generally being wrong with Islam itself. I see this as there being a large number of practitioners of Islam who are extremists to the point that they, in my eyes have largely cast aside their humanity. That a culture of this era could condone such a thing is pretty shocking.