kane

I was not 100% correct. here is the story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7106234.stm

A woman was raped by 7 men. The men who did the raping were sentenced to lashes and sentences ranging from 10 months to 5 years in jail. . . in short (at least to me) pretty much a slap on the wrist.

The woman was sentenced 200 lashes and 6 months in prison because at the time of the rape she was alone in private with a man who was not a relative. After pressure that was put on the king and led by the US oppressor Hillary Clinton the king pardoned her.

That sounds like a loving, caring kind of place to me.

Here is another.
http://wn.com/saudi_woman_sentenced_to_lashing
a 75 year old Syrian woman who was living in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 40 lashes, four months in prison and was deported out of the country simply for having two unrelated men in her house.


here is another
http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider...tim-100-times/

A Filipino woman working in Saudi Arabia was raped by a co-worker. She pressed charges against the guy who did it. She was sentenced to 100 lashes for having sex out of wedlock because in Saudi Arabia all sex out of wedlock - including rape - is illegal and punishable by jail time or lashings.

Another fantastic little story here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ne-school.html

here a 13 year old girl had a cell phone at school which was against the rules. She was lashed 90 times in front of her classmates.

But, as you say, I'm sure these are all just situations that are done to protect women from making bad choices or to be tempted into bad things.