Qatar Is Still A Barbaric Place Where Women Are Prosecuted For Reporting Rapes

It happens routinely, most recently to a Dutch woman and before that to a Norwegian woman, because Qatar is a backward country with oil wealth and a medieval way of life that would collapse without oil dollars from the West.

Of course, all of this is done in the name of Islam, which, as practiced in Qatar and many countries nearby, is a cruel and dangerous cult that stands in the way of an semblance of progress, decency or justice. In short, it is a lot like fundamentalist Christianity in the United States.