Pictures show how the woman was forced to kneel on the ground on the
public stage in front of a mosque in Indonesia's Aceh
province.
Such punishments are quite common in some Muslim countries – often handed
down for very minor reasons. In some places women can be lashed for being in
public without a male guardian.
But protests against these countries are rare and when they do take
place, there are far fewer demonstrators than the millions who marched against
Donald Trump last month.
Yesterday, many expressed outrage online and suggested
there are so few protests because the issue is ‘not trendy’ or because it is not
politically correct to criticise Muslim countries’ treatment of
women.
One wrote on MailOnline: ‘So cruel and disgusting. This is what we should
be protesting about.’
