9/11 Conspiracies, Ron Paul, and Saudi Arabian Rape Victim Convictions: What Do They All Have in Common?

I bet when you hear a woman was raped, the last thing that comes to mind is that she needs to serve jail time, receive lashes from a whip, or worse, even endure capital punishment, but believe it or not, this type of victim conviction occurs on a nearly daily basis in the Islamic world, especially in strictly fundamentalist Saudi Arabia. Just recently, a woman was sentenced to 200 lashes for being the victim of a brutal gang rape. This is actually somewhat lenient, as the Islamic Republic of Iran has shown, as most fundamentalists pretty strictly adhere to the policy set forth by Muhammad: if a woman claims to be raped, she needs to have her story collaborated by 5 males witnesses or she gets stoned for adultery.

But then, maybe we can just dig into Ron Paul's bag of terms and call this "blowback" - if she hadn't gotten herself into a situation that could have resulted in such dire consequences, if she had not gotten into any of the cars to begin with, she wouldn't have become a rape victim. Therefore the answer is to not punish the rapists, but to simply stay out of their cars, wherever they may be.

It may seem like an extreme example, but then, I thought that basically saying we had 9/11 coming was pretty extreme too. Ron Paul, for those who haven't been bombarded by his rather belligerent fan base yet, is a candidate that appears to be running in the wrong primary. Running on a strict isolationist policy, feeding into the hands of 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists by always beating around the ever dangerous bush of suggesting more investigations into 9/11, toeing the line of damning his chance for the White House (as if his fringe and bizarre beliefs weren't enough) by fully trying to suggest Bush himself was behind them.