Monday, January 25, 2010

Saudi justice: or what is called "Saudi reforms" in the Western press

"Schoolchildren in Saudi Arabia might want to put those rubberbands back in their knapsacks, the spitballs back in their mouths and begin meekly raising their hands before asking questions following a harsh ruling against a 13-year-old who had a spat with her teacher. According to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, as cited by the Daily Mail of London, the adolescent got into a tussle with her teacher after she was caught with a cellphone camera, apparently forbidden in Saudi girls' schools. Instead of giving her a week of detention or making her write, "I won't bring my cellphone camera to school" on the chalkboard a hundred times, the kid was sentenced to 90 lashes with a cane." (thanks Dina)