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Originally Posted by bopdude
Not condoning or condemning, they ( 2 men and a women ) lived in the country and knew the laws, why then were they surprised at the outcome of breaking the laws of the land ?
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Exactly! Barbaric as it may look and (to
our sensibilities) is, the law is the law - no matter how cruel the punishment. Having been to Saudi many times and witnessed the application of the law in it's most brutal of forms - believe me it most certainly emphasises to all people within the country exactly where they stand, if they digress.
Consequentially they rarely suffer the those problems that we "civilised" Europeans have had to and seem powerless to effectively control, like:
Burglary; Drug dealing; Muggings, etc.
For example, I could (without fear) leave my car parked up, with the doors unlocked, windows down and my wallet on top of the dashboard and know that no-one would take it - such is the effectivness of the law - which applies to all and anyone in the country.
In addition, the application of the law in Saudi works on the principle of "let justice be seen to be done" - something of which (with some of the social crimes we as civilised citizens have to contend with) wouldn't go amiss in the UK!
However (the above considered), I still have to sympathise with the victim in this case.
Si thee
