Saudi Misogyny Watch

Once again, the Saudi religious police have decided that women in the presence of men who are not related to them are subject to criminal sanction, including dozens of lashes.

This time, it's a 75 year old woman who the Saudi religious police have decided was in the presence of two unrelated men. The woman will be punished with 40 lashes and deported.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.

According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began last year when a member of the religious police entered her house in the city of Al-Chamli and found her with two unrelated men, "Fahd" and "Hadian."

Fahd told the policeman he had the right to be there, because Sawadi had breast-fed him as a baby and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism and punishes unrelated men and women who are caught mingling.

This is Sharia - the interpretation and implementation of Islamic law, and the Saudis prime export besides oil is this fundamentalist Islam. Their funding has sponsored extremists around the world.

For those wondering, the two men were also hit with harsh punishments; one was sentenced to 40 lashes, the other 60.