Saudi rape VICTIM sentenced to 200 lashes 'admits to affair'

Yes, you did, BigT. I recently saw an interview show were women being so abused in the Middle East were talking about why American women and feminists weren't speaking up for them. They had some interesting theories. One of them I think is right: to stand up for them means standing against the entire repressive and jihadisti-oriented radical Islamic leaders and regimes.

Then, if you stand against them and their actions, suddenly, uncomfortably, you'll find yourself in the same territory with people who support our troops and see value in the war in Iraq and the hunt for terrorists. Which means, of course, that --eeeck! You're agreeing with the government, which has those *awful* people "in power," so that means that-- screw those poor women, to stand for them means that then you have to stand against the radical Islamists and jihadists. Next thing you know, you'll be asking things like "if you move to a free country, why do you then insist that they change things to suit you? Why do you take jobs as taxi drivers and then declare who you won't drive? Why do you move in and insist that if you commit a crime that a woman police officer can't deal with you, because you're special?" Why, in Europe, do you move in and create entire zones where even police are afraid to go?"

Once you start asking those questions, it's a slippery slope that just might send some hurtling toward a horrible, to them, conclusion: when it comes to problems like this, you're either for your country and what we stand for, or you're not. And it's much easier, for both genders, to frill around and talk about "understanding" and "awareness" than to get down to the bottom line: if you give so much of a damn about people, why aren't you standing against a teacher being lashed for a teddy bear's name, a gang rape victim being lashed 200 times, and other atrocities?

Because, for some, above all else, thou shalt not speak ill of radical Islamists, jihadists, terrorists, or those who subert, oppress, and mistreat people, especially women. Better to just bash America. Hey, doing that is safe!

I sometimes wonder: do those who are so supportive of the Muslim extremist attempt to literally burrow in and change other countries understand that if they take control, they won't get special privileges for having been so "understanding?" Do they think that the rules won't apply to them because, well, they were so "understanding"? 

Freedom: protect it or lose it. I no longer have any respect for anyone who says that they support causes for women or children, or who speak out against domestic abuse, if they refuse to speak out against the horrors being inflicted on women in Islamist countries and enclaves. If abuse is wrong in one place, it's wrong in another.