Don't ever confuse

This disgusting, vile, repugnant backwards form of thinking with who I am, what I represent, what my Faith means to me, how it is executed within my family and my community, how it will be taught to my children, how I choose to live it, how I choose to interpret it and the love I carry for it in my heart.

There is no learned Muslim - male of female - who would tell you that this court decision is defensible in any other Islamic court of law. It is defensible ONLY in a country that calls itself 'Muslim' and uses that very lie to justify a continued and abhorrent oppression of its women; a country that attempts to render women completely impotent at every turn of life.

Disgusting is this court decision and Saudi's despicable interpretation of a beautiful, kind, forgiving and gentle religion that was the first to give women equal rights and equal power and equal status. They have made a mockery of it and all who it has served to protect for 1400 years.

And here's my punishment to impart: Each one of the 'Judges' is raped 28 times and then their genitals sliced off so as to ensure they never lure another rape. How dare they commit a woman to such punishment in the name of MY religion.

To anyone who has half a brain, please DO NOT misunderstand this court decision as a representation of Islam, for the only thing it represents is that country's fear of an equal and empowered woman. I am really much too enraged to post anything articulate on this subject and so I recommend you instead read this particular response to the ruling.

Aside: This is NOT a religious issue. This is an issue that is, at its core, one about gender politics but manipulating the faith of Islam to its benefit. If you are male or female, Muslim or otherwise, this issue is about you. There is a duty here to speak loud and clear against this sort of injustice because today's embodiment is the young woman in Saudi Arabia, tomorrow it may be our own daughters in any other part of the world. Do not wait until it comes knocking at your front door.

Aside no 2: Ask yourself where the British and American condemnation (it is not enough for the Americans to say they were 'astonished' by the ruling as that is like saying the sky is blue) of this ruling is - it will not come, and should it come, it will be as quiet as a lamb because Saudi Arabia is allied with the USA and Britain. Petrol / Money are here key issues. Had this decision been taken in Iran, both the American and the British administrations would have used the opportunity to point to the 'barbarianism' and lack of freedom, using it as further leverage to attack. Petrol / Money are here also key issues. Open your eyes if you've not done so already.

Aside no 3: Wahhabi - NOT Sunni - is the ruling 'Islamic' ideology in Saudi, and it is currently being called 'conservative', which it is anything but. Wahhabism is a strictly literal - and therefore psychopathic - interpretation of Islam. It would be the equivalent of how a Jewish settler would read the Torah, and how a Christian would be an Evangelist (or Mel Gibson).