Sorry to bring all this up, but I found it interesting, if not shocking.
I just read up on the Saudi Arabian Legal System on Wikipedia out of curiosity. They whip their delinquents and cut off arms and heads of their criminals as legal punishments.
Adultery is the most serious of crimes. If the guilty party is married, he or she is sentenced to death by stoning, beheading, or shooting. Stoning is the usual method of punishment. Proof of this crime must be established by confession or by four witnesses to the act.
Then there is how they treat their women over there:
There are four reasons given why women’s testimony is not valid in a Saudi court:
1. Women are much more emotional than men and will, as a result of their emotions, distort their testimony.
2. Women do not participate in public life, so they will not be capable of understanding what they observe.
3. Women are dominated completely by men, who by the grace of God are deemed superior; therefore, women will give testimony according to what the last man told them.
4. Women are forgetful and their testimony cannot be considered reliable.
Talk about inequality and a serious lack of human rights. I often take for granted that I live in a free country. Yikes! :o
