Especially in nations dominated by fundamentalist Muslims. Two stories. A woman in Saudi Arabia gets gang raped. Who goes to jail? You've heard this story enough to know that it's the woman.
An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.
The victim was initially punished for violating laws on segregation of the sexes - she was in an unrelated man's car at the time of the attack.
When she appealed, the judges said she had been attempting to use the media to influence them.
OK, the rapists went to jail too, although with lower punishment than they could have received
Or how about this one from Sudan. A British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, asks her students what to name the class teddy bear. They say, "Mohammed." She's going to get 40 lashes or a jail sentence because naming a teddy bear after Mohammed violates the law against blasphemy.
Ms Gibbons has been charged under Article 125 of the criminal code, the Foreign Office confirmed.
The case will go before a court tomorrow and the 54-year-old from Liverpool is expected to appear.
If convicted, Ms Gibbons faces 40 lashes, six months in prison or a fine.
If people want to know what real tyranny looks like, as opposed to the fake tyranny huffed about in the blogosphere, these two stories give a nice depiction.
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