How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for 'inappropriate dress'? A culture where one woman suffered 40 lashes from a leather whip for the crime of wearing trousers and a T-shirt? A culture where a man who lies with a man risks being whipped a hundred times before being put in a dank cell for five years?
Personally, I would call such a culture 'alien'. In fact, I would call it backward, regressive, inhuman and morally inferior to the freer, more forgiving culture we Brits are lucky to live in.
Why, then, was the unionist MP Jim Allister rebuked in the Commons yesterday for suggesting that the bloodletting maniac in Belfast heralded from an 'alien culture'? For all of the primitive punishments listed above, all that state barbarism, took place in the nation where he was reportedly born: Sudan.
✍️ Brendan O’Neill
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