Below The Beltway

The King of Saudi Arabia has pardoned the rape victim who was sentenced to 200 lashes for being in public with a man:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the [...]

A 16 year old girl in Canada is dead after being choked to death by her father for refusing to wear the hijab:
TORONTO, Ont. — A 16-year-old girl has died after allegedly being choked by her father over a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by [...]

Convert to Christianity, get a death sentence:
The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.
The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill [...]

Western intellectuals and pundits, most of whom understand neither religion nor history, are often quoted as saying that what Islam needs is something akin to the Protestant Reformation to turn itself away from the clarion call of radical Islam.
The problem what that argument, in addition to being an incomplete historical analogy, is that it ignores [...]

The President of Sudan has pardoned the British teacher convicted last week of blasphemy for letting her students name a classroom teddy bear “Mohammed”:
LONDON, Dec. 3 — A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the [...]

If you’re planning on moving to a nation ruled by Sharia law, don’t name your teddy bear Mohammed:
KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) — A British teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Mohammed” has been charged by authorities with offending religion, British officials say.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being held by police [...]

Last week, I wrote about the case of a Saudi woman who was sentenced to flogging and prison time after being raped.
Now the Saudi government is trying to justify the brutality of its 12th Century justice system:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi Justice Ministry announced that a girl gang raped by seven men and [...]

A woman in Saudi Arabia is raped and gets convicted of violating laws against segregation of the sexes:
A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law.
The woman was initially punished for violating laws on segregation of the sexes - [...]

Well, not really, because it doesn’t really exist:
CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity and then took the unprecedented step of seeking official recognition for the change said he has gone into hiding following death threats.
Mohammed Hegazy, who sparked controversy when pictures of him posing with a poster of the Virgin Mary [...]

In America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, Mark Steyn puts forward what can only be described as a chilling vision of the future.
Europe, or at least the Europe we know, is, he contends, doomed. Thanks to a combination of low birth rates and a welfare state that has sapped individuals [...]