Little can cause a liberal more outrage than this story.
The Dubai police seem to have been more interested in the actions of the woman that may have ‘encouraged’ the act rather than investigate the rape itself.
Inevitably it is when things like this happen to Western ex-pats that our attention is drawn to it and we get understandably exercised. We musn’t forget that such laws apply to native Saudi women – see here for an even more horrendous example.
There must be a better way to confront this than our government simply saying they are ‘horrified’ or in the USA’s case not really saying much at all. You don’t need to be a believer in human rights to figure that this plain wrong.
