The lack of clear information about this case makes it impossible to determine what the full story is that led to such a judgment and punishment.

The young men could have delivered the bread without entering her home, Islamic law would have been observed, and the woman would have received the help she needed.

Arab News reported the statement of a commission members as saying that police had arrested the woman on two previous occasions.

According to Yahoo! News, the court based its verdict on “citizen information” and testimony from Al-Anzi’s father, her late husband’s brother, who accused her of “corruption.”

The claim of the woman to a breastfeeding relationship with the young man could surely be proved by testimony of family members who knew of the breastfeeding.

To assume this woman is innocent of any wrong doing simply because she is 75 is not reasonable. There are too many unknowns and plenty of 75 year olds in the world who have proven they can commit crimes just as well as a 25 year old can.

You would think that a law should be made to judge people based on age and fairness.
I really can’t understand why the western world would even want to deal with a country that can’t even be fair, and logical to a woman who is 75.

Why should western countries make people who can’t even think straight rich???

This is unbelievable and SAD, I thought belief in God was suppose to make people more understanding, and loving..but it seems to be making people go crazy in Saudi Arabia.

Lucky for her she got deported.

I will merely offer my own thoughts, since Saudis are far more diverse regarding attitudes than is sometimes perceived outside.

“if the people in your country would rather that the US mind their own business and let you people handle your own problems, as well as staying out of the middle east completely?”

What most Saudis want and expect is mutual respect and equality in our interactions.

Most Saudis do not seek estrangement or disengagement with america or the West.

Of course some of our problems must be dealt with exclusively by ourselves. Others, such as environmental issues necessarily require international solutions.

But, if there were to be demonstrated and meaningful respect and equality in our dealings, then my belief is that most Saudis would be very pleased to interact with the West.

It is the constant and ill-informed critiques that caricature us that are harmful. I do not say that we do not contribute to those stereotypes of ourselves — of course we do.

We are neither as perfect as we would like to believe, nor as bad as our enemies would like to believe.

We are just human beings.

As I noted, I do not believe it to be helpful to civilised discussion to make negative assumptions about the motives of others, so I do assume your heart is in the right place.

However, just as those outside should not denigrate us, we should also not be apotheosised.

Your statement “why should we try and change Saudi Arabia, they have no drug problems, unwed mothers etc. and I totally agree!” is inaccurate.

We have a variety of social ills, including drug and alcohol abuse, and many others. Our society is, in fact, quite imperfect in many ways.

The police, for example, have arrested various narcotics salesmen, as but one example.

We should neither be viewed by the outside as obdurately evil nor as a paragon of virtue.

We are a human society with a significant number of social ills, just as is the case with all other societies.

It is true that because of our conservative mores, and our perceived affluence, we appear to outsiders to be rather shocking.

However, we ought not to be viewed as either a terrible place for our residents, nor as a utopia, for our nation is neither.