Dr Briggs needs to be shut up in a room with Dr Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish and Phyllis Chesler and Ayaan Hirsi Ali...and 'Hannah Shah'.

Tie her to a chair and make her watch footage of FGM procedures - and make sure the sound is turned up, so she can hear the screams of a little girl whose clitoris is being sliced up and ripped out, and her labia sewn together, with neither anaesthetic nor antiseptic.  Over and over and over.

I wonder, can Dr Briggs hear the screams of little 8 year old and 9 year old and 10 year old girls as they are raped, repeatedly, anally and vaginally, by their adult male cousin-husbands, piously following the model man, Mohammed?  Or their screams as they try to give birth with immature bodies, at 10, or 11, or 12, or 13, and fail, and suffer ghastly fistulas, and are rejected and abandoned? Or their screams as their husbands beat them black and blue for, example, failing to produce a male child, or on suspicion of being insufficiently submissive?

Perhaps she could be made to watch a few videos of canings, or floggings, or, best of all, stonings: or at least, be forced to listen to a blow-by-blow description of what happens to a woman's body when she is slowly, sadistically, battered to death by medium-sized rocks thrown by an ecstatically ululating male mob 'high' on a blood frenzy?

And have the full, horrifying injustice of the sharia law about rape, explained to her: you are raped? - well, it isn't even your word against his, because under sharia your word...simply doesn't count, nor does the word of any other girl or woman who saw it happen. If he says he didn't do it, then you have just confessed to 'sexual immorality', and you may be flogged, or imprisoned, or...STONED TO DEATH.  (Is there footage of the stoning of that little 13 year old gang rape victim in Somalia?) 

Perhaps Dr Briggs should be tied up and whipped with exactly as many strokes as were suffered by that girl in the video that just came out of Pakistan...to see whether her icy heart and addled brain are capable of comprehending that floggings like that, which can be carried out purely on the basis of an evil man's say-so, that is, on the basis of malicious slander, are...evil, and cruel, and unjust.

Mary/Dumbledoresarmy,

Couldn't agree with both of you more even if my life depended on it. Well said, well stated, both of you.