Saudi Arabia's royal tragedy

The grandson of Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah, who was living in London and is on trial for beating his servant to death, might face the death penalty in his homeland. Wait for the news. If true, he will be given the capital punishment not for killing a human being, but for being homosexual. Homosexuality is a criminal offence in the state, one that carries the death penalty.

It's really something to hear about such conservative societies when one is born in an environment where freedom is almost perfect. Capital punishment for homosexuality is absurb! I mean something as simple as your own sexual preference and life can be the cause of your death LEGALLY is just minbboggling.
The saudi arabian law could violate the the sensilbilities of even a conservative liberal individual today, especially the way the law is interpreted when it comes to women's freedom, sexual and political. A recent case of a saudi man getting married to a 12 year old girl created an uproar highlighted the fact that in this day and age of human rights awareness, Saudi Arabia still not does have a minimum marriagble age for it's girls. Agreed that underage marriages happen in some remote parts of our country to this day, but the Indian's law recognises this as illegal.
 But what is going on in that country where it seems human rights holds a very different meaning altogether ? If at all. It doesn't favour too well with the human rights agencies and activists around the globe.
It is the only country in the world where women are forbidden to drive cars! The truth is that Saudi Arabian law is a very conservative and strict interpretation of the sharia law, and so it is mostly the culture rather than Islam itself that seems to be getting in the way of women's liberation in the country. They are a mere property of the men in their family, fathers of husbands and can hardly get anything done without their approval.

Although i do agree that the western world's view of Islam is sometimes only a reflection of their little understanding of it, and the fact that they tend to compare their freedom to the rest of the worlds.

 However i have to say, it's a redudnant society and a primitive way of living. They treat their women like pseudo citizens and hardly even human beings with basic rights. Plus their treatment of punishment is at once scary and makes 'to err is human, to forgive, divine' seem like fallicious wishfulness.

 But the fact is that their laws and the sexual repression of their women is actually accepted by them as a part of their life, their identity and that is sad because every individual should be atleast given a choice and not made to do things with a knife to their throats, but there is growing awareness and unrest among the women about their rights.Their idea of a man and woman has never been on an equal footing even in theory, forget practise. this story of a woman raped and then punished by the saudi for being raped reminds me of how different my reality is from their and as indignant and sad it makes me, i feel blessed to not be a part of their society. Let's see what the Royal Family decides will be the fate of one of it's own, will this make them think again about their archaic laws or is the shame of dishonour much too big to forget?