For Pete's sake. I will be glad when all religion is dead!

But modern technology has allowed stupid people to survive far longer than they would have 100 or so years ago, thats for sure.

the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest-Diderot

Until the last brick from the last church falls and kills the last priest.

This story's not over yet. The wheels of justice are still in motion.

This of course is

How do you get a female gynecologist when girls can't get education?

but in separate schools. They are able to work in professional jobs within the confines of strict gender segregation (with a male guardian's permission, being driven by a male guardian to work at a woman-only university, for example). They are chafing at the restrictions and are protesting as best they can, under threat of severe punishment.

It has to be tough.

I'm frustrated with the second class treatment of women in the US but that is not anywhere near the same world as what Saudi women endure.

Hard to think of a worse one offhand.

Are willing to let women die for religious-inspired health regulations.

In Saudi it's the whole damn country.

Just pointing out we have our own home-grown Taliban in the US, we just call them teaparty or something.

humans are a dead-end species.

In which case, the shooter was doing what he was taught. And furthermore if a relative rapes a female relative, isn't she stoned to death?


That's what muslims I've spoken to have taught me about islam.

Saudi Arabia is the strangest of the Islamic sects. I guess it's the wahabiism, which is very strict.

So you can't compare a Northern Presbyterian with a Mormon or Catholic. They are all different flavors of Christianity. Same with Islam.

If I remember my history right this brand of Islam in Saudi Arabia has only been popular when the Saud family consolidated the country. Before then women were free to not go wearing a Burka.

wouldn't have shot that doctor.

Army of God? George tiller? What the person ur replying to is saying is that wahabbism is one of the most extreme branches of Islam. Some people, like the one who replied to you, are for some reason intent on ignoring that fact and pretending that wahabbism is all there is.

Afghanistan. There was a video of a man shooting, execution style, a muslin women sitting on the floor resigned to her execution. He shot her, killed her, and his followers yelled the Arabic words for 'God is Great'. Her crime? Supposed adultery.

all political correctness aside, am I the only one horrified by this barbarism.

unless there are a certain number of men who can verify her story.
Such bullshit

and I've often been surprised when I've met people from that country that they haven't gone completely crazy living under it. The women I've met have said the only thing they want to change is that they want to be able to drive so that they don't have to kick some man off the couch when they need to run out to the market because they've run out of milk.

At least this guy couldn't shoot straight and Dr. Al Zahn is expected to recover fully. One wonders if it wasn't perfunctory, a non lethal wound inflicted to satisfy a bizarre notion of honor.

gynecologist DOES in Saudi Arabia?

because she wasn't allowed to drive herself?

I'm not minimizing the shooter's crime but I wondered if the victim had been killed. He'll apparently recover, thank FSM.