WOMAN GANG-RAPED, THEN GIVEN 200 LASHES AND JAIL SENTENCE

After a nineteen-year-old young woman was gang-raped and then complained about it to the courts, the judges decided to increase her punishment to 200 lashes and adding a jail sentence, the BBC reports. Guess the country where this occurred.

SAUDI ARABIA!

Bush & Co. love to complain about Iran not granting women full rights and penalizing them for not covering their hair. Iran is a regime ruled by the Shiite ayatollahs. Bush and Cheney would like nothing better than to bomb it.

But Saudi Arabia, predominantly Sunni, is the "friend" of the United States. Witness Bush walking hand-in-hand with the Saudi King at Crawford.

Yet Saudi Arabia is even more backward than Iran when it comes to personal rights, especially those of women.

The whole world needs to rise up and condemn Saudi Arabia for this cruel and unjustified sentence for this young victimized woman. If it carries out this sentence, Saudi Arabia should be viewed as a barbaric pariah and tossed out of the United Nations.