Female Journalist Receives Sixty Lashes

As more proof that the religion of Islam discriminates against women, a Saudi court sentenced a female journalist for sixty lashes just for being associated with a Lebanese TV channel. The channel, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), had been under intense scrutiny this entire month by Saudi Arabia for airing the sexual confessions of a Saudi man earlier this October. The man, Mazen Abdul-Jawad, discussed how he used to get his swerve on before he was married on his talk show "In Bold Red." After the show aired, Saudi authorities arrested him and shut down LBC. The TV host was sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes this month. Hopefully, those lashes were not given to him at the same time.

The female journalist who only released to authorities her first name, Rosana, was arrested by Saudi courts for working for LBC. The Saudi authorites had closed LBC offices in Riyadh and had revoked their TV license. The only reason she was arrested was for the silly claim of working for an unlicensed company. For this reason only, she received sixty lashes on Saturday.

The problem here is that the Saudi court system is ran by clerics of the Wahhabi school of Islam. This school claims that they are the strictest of all of the schools that interpret Islam. What this court system really is doing is oppressing the entire country since Islamic text was not intended to be culturally relevant for modern society. The goal of Islam was for Muslims to worship one huge pagan idol instead of multiple pagan idols not for being a cultural barometer. Islamic texts such as the Qu'ran and the al-Bukhari stress that women should be oppressed and discriminated against at all times. The reason being is that when a woman truly reads the Qu'ran with proper comprehension, then she would not follow Islam. This woman journalist was whipped for absolutely no reason at all. Wake up and convert to anything that is not Islam! Do not allow dumb clerics to determine how you should live!