I'm not an apologist for fundamentalist Muslim practices and attitudes regarding women, but seems to me, we are not long out of the dark ages ourselves.

Just over a hundred years ago, my husband's grandmother was stoned out of village in Scotland, after being harshly judged for a sexual indiscretion, by the good God fearing people of the time.

The stoning caused permanent damage to her left eye and resulted in a noticeable scar and nerve damage to her eyelid. Mind you, she was a nasty piece of work and some in Canada might have faired better, had she not darkened these shores.

However, when I see stuff about stoning, I'm not so smug as to think that we are long enlightened, regarding some quite barbarous behavior directed specifically at women, which was accepted and sanctioned by those of the mainstream.