'Sharia law' is a disease

UPDATE 11/20/2007: Today CNN found an anti-Bush angle in the Saudi rape story. They said that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, "an ally of the Bush administration," declined to comment on the woman's sentence. Why not say Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States? And CNN forgot to mention that the king was also an ally of the Clinton administration.

Gotta love Saudi Arabia. BBC:

The rape victim was punished for violating Saudi Arabia's laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.

On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.

A woman is gang-raped, and receives a punishment of 200 lashes. This is a sick society.

Now consider that every time a school in the US opens a special, Muslim-only prayer room, or cabbies are allowed to refuse people with seeing-eye dogs or a bottle of wine, or foot-washing facilities are installed at airports, or women are allowed to wear headscarvess for driver's license photos or into jewelry stores, or a cashier is allowed to refuse a customer with bacon, we are on the road to Sharia.