What Is Needed
It's time to bring about regime change in Sa'udi Arabia, and ensure that the new regime is firmly committed to universal standards of religious liberty and the separation of church and state, so that things like this will never happen again. From one end of the Islamic world to the other, non-Muslims must have full equality, under constitions which firmly prohibit making Islam, or any other faith, an established church - that is, favored in any way by the government, in violation of the basic eternal democratic principle of a wall fo separation protecting religious faith from government interference,
Of course, that wall of separation doesn't exist in the other direction, and so the faithful Muslim population can continue to vote for legitimate laws that reflect their moral beliefs which are informed by their faith. So beverage alcohol, abortion, pornography, and maybe even teaching evolution in public schools might still be illegal in Sa'udi Arabia, but such laws are admissible, being in line with precedent in genuinely democratic nations.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
