Saudi Civilization: Barbarism Slicked With Oil

We Americans, especially we Republican Americans, will tolerate any evil if it produces oil that we may purchase at any price to calm our petroleum addiction.

Witness the Saudi regime of immensely rich barbarians, a family of male tyrants who pour incredible amounts of dollars into financing Islamic schools that teach that the Americans incarnate the devil and need to be destroyed.

A gang rapes a woman and her male companion. She complains. The rapers go to prison, admittedly no fun house in Saudi Arabia, first for five years, now raised to 10.

The woman, what does she get? She gets sentenced to 90 lashes of a whip against her bare body for being in a car with a man not her relative. She appeals. Big mistake. Because of the appeal, she receives a new sentence: 200 lashes and six months in prison.

Her companion keeps his mouth shut and takes his 90 lashes, which is usually enough to maim and in some cases, kill.

There’s no report yet on the raped woman, whether she’s survived the whipping, handed out under the crude brand of Islam the Saudi potentates personify.

Now the government claims the woman had an affair with her companion, confessed to it. Big surprise, confessing under torture. That, says the royal family, justifies the punishments she’s received.

George W. Bush holds hands with these rich savages, literally. The White House says it is “astonished” by the sentence inflicted on the raped woman. My, oh, my, I bet that makes the playboy Saudis quiver.