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To: loantech who wrote (18290)	12/1/2007 5:59:53 AM
From: Anchan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18308

loantech, good grief, let's weep over what happened but not over what didn't happen. You write: "...but a religion and state that tolerates a woman being raped by 6 men" Fact is, the courts of Saudi Arabia (certainly representing the chauvinist Salafi version of islam) did not "tolerate" this rape. The 7 men (not "6") were condemned to prison terms between 1 year and 5 years. Yet they were lucky. The BBC reports: "...But the sentences are still low considering they could have faced the death penalty." news.bbc.co.uk And the poor woman had broken one of the Saudi "laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other." Am I disgusted with the treatment she suffered? You bet. Am I disgusted with segregation between unrelated men and women being the rule of that country? You bet. But here I drift off into a brown study over bad journalism, severe customs, segregation between men and women, or black and white, as in the U.S.A until recently, the high rates of sexual violence in western countries; and my own despair trying to make sense of it all. And my gold won't help.