…and now, one of the United States’ democratic allies
Saudi Arabia is bristling at international criticism over the sentencing of a rape victim to prison and 200 lashes [for adultery], insisting that the West should stay out of its legal system. But the case could empower voices for change in the kingdom’s Islamic courts.
Meanwhile, back in the US of A:
After surviving years of childhood and marital abuse and neglect, a woman suffers a physical collapse and severe mental/nervous breakdown. While in a near catatonic state, the woman is physically assaulted and raped. She becomes pregnant.

Legume Sam:
“democratic allies”?
Are they really marketing their hand-holding relationship as such?
2 December 2007, 11:16 am