From the New York Times, January 13:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- In a rare public display, the Saudi government announced on Tuesday that a religious court had sentenced 15 demonstrators, including one woman, to public lashings and prison terms for taking part in demonstrations against the government.
Read the rest--including a brief description of how, exactly, Saudi authorities regulate the whipping of malefactors--here. Note, too, the possible Al Qaeda connection.
Reader Ron Gustavson sends in this story about yet one more indignity women must endure living under the House of Saud. And lastly,
Tribal Christianity Watch
As most of us know, on January 7, Mississippi authorities arrested 79-year-old Edgar Ray Killen for his connection in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney. According to testimony at the time, Killen had organized a gang of Klansman who executed the three men, burying their bodies in a levy. (The 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning" was based on this incident.) Killen, we should note, is a preacher. His gang of masked "insurgents" assassinated Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney for the same reason gunmen kill people in Iraq today--because the activists were attempting to spread the gospel of freedom. Islam is not the only creed whose devotionalists are stained by the sin of tribal and religious supremacy.
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