Barbarians all.
Recall, the Romans fed Christians and prisoners of war to the Lions in the Colliseum.
I believe these types of crazy inhuman laws are what kept Saddam in place and the Iranian people docile.
Funny how you never hear the National Organization of Women being critical of how Islam treats women. NOW seems to think that George Bush is a bigger threat to females than Islam.
Now there's some pretzel logic for you.