Did they punish the father? Or are they admitting to immaculate conception?
I don’t think you’re “getting” patriarchal medieval systems of “governance”
Both sides get the same number of lashes in Islamic law, so that’s not what’s going on here.
Well note they said patriarchal and medieval not Islamic.
Context is Saudi Arabia.
Sure but while Saudi Arabia can get weird sometimes (see: that one time they banned women from driving for God knows what reason) for the most part they’re pretty orthodox about this stuff.
She reportedly became pregnant during a brief relationship with an Egyptian man and said that the child’s father had since left the country.
At most he’d probably have to pay money to the girl’s father.
The future conservatives want.
say rights groups, which have condemned the punishment as an “act of violence”.
Thanks Captain Obvious!
Strongly worded letter from UN under way!
Even the UN can do better than that. It’s not even a condemnation … pretty sure even the pro-lashing people would agree that it’s an act of violence.
And we say single moms have it hard in the West.
It is possible for more than one thing to be true.
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They do. It’s not a competition.
