An Absolute, Fundamental Human Right

Britain's Head Boy has brought the moral weight of his personal disapproval to bear upon the case of Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for adultery and apostasy because she married a Christian. "The way she is being treated is barbaric and has no place in today's world," fulminated Britain's Head Boy, who has apparently just heard that his chums at G4S have no financial stake in the lady's corrective environment. "Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right," fulminated Britain's Head Boy; which doubtless helps to explain why his government is deporting little girls to have their genitals butchered by the upholders of traditional values in Nigeria. Of course, Nigeria is slightly richer than Sudan; and Meriam Ibrahim had the good sense to marry an American, so that, unlike Afusat Saliu and her daughters, she is not an asylum seeker in the United Kingdom.