I think you are being a bit resolutely PC·ly are tolerant there, Bert. Sharia where adopted [& it's getting more & more of a hold in Islamic jurisdictions] is predicated on literal application of the Prophet's injunctions. Where except N Nigeria and such places are young girls publicly caned on the bare bottom for the iniquity of being 'impure' — thru having been raped?! Or are women buried up to the neck to have their heads smashed with rocks for 'adultery'? — which doesn't there only mean congress by a married woman with a 3rd party, but even intercourse with a lawfully-married spouse of whom the woman's parents did not initially approve so complained of her matrimony to the authorities. And you know as well as I do that these things happen quite a lot, and are not unique instances. This present brouhaha would seem to me very much "to represent the culture as a whole" - at least in some of its less attractive aspects.

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