Unlike some 30 years ago, women in Yemen
today cover most of themselves from head
to toe.
Photograph by Eva Sohlman

I get two or three requests a day from my readers who email me news items and ask me to write something about them in my blog. I'm sure some of you have read certain of my articles and wondered why they were written at all.

Well, most likely a reader sent me a request; yes, I do requests. I try to accommodate as many as I can but items on Muslim atrocities no longer interest me. I am flattered at being asked but the problem is that one can only post so much of the same thing about honor killings, Muslim rape victims put in jail instead of the rapists, female genital mutilation every 10 seconds in Africa, innocent children purposely being blown up. (All these links are to news items not even a day or two old) It's getting stale. Everybody gets it: Muslims are ignorant, barbaric, primitive, vile, misogynistic, anti-modern goat-fukkers, OK we get it - we know.

If you're a Liberal, you'll make every excuse to turn a blind eye for the sake of some misguided concept of tolerance and multiculturalism; you'll even deny there is a clash of civilizations or even that there is a threat to the western world. No amount of evidence will convince you. If you're not a leftwing nutjob you don't need a brick shithouse to fall on your head, so who am I publishing this stuff for?

But every once in a while Muslims just outdo themselves and I can't resist; reader Perry emailed me this :

CNN,
17 Nov 2007,
Saudi court ups punishment for gang-rape victim

A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN.

The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.

The victim's attorney, Abdulrahman al-Lahim, contested the rapists' sentence, contending there is a fatwa, or edict under Islamic law, that considers such crimes Hiraba (sinful violent crime) and the punishment should be death.

"After a year, the preliminary court changed the punishment and made it two to nine years for the defendants," al-Lahim said of the new decision handed down Wednesday. "However, we were shocked that they also changed the victim's sentence to be six months in prison and 200 lashes."

The judges more than doubled the punishment for the victim because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to a source quoted by Arab News, an English-language Middle Eastern daily newspaper.