@youngmafbog
//However, imposing our beliefs on other nations is no better than them imposing theirs on us; and I dont think we would like that would we?//
You're right but, in this case, nobody's saying that we expect other nations to change their laws. They only seem to be saying "don't let this sort of behaviour be introduced over here". I may be wrong to extrapolote from that but I think it's part of the baggage attached to Sharia Law.
That is to say, if we allow them to run their own legal-system-with-a-system where they discipline their own adherents and, when events like this crop up, fail to discipline perverts like this one, then our own Police and CPS would be left standing on the sidelines, unable to intervene.
What we really need, at times like these is someone (or several) who has grown up with Western sensibilities yet has gained -deep and detailed- understanding of everything that Sharia courts might permit which we would find abhorrent -before- we finally give it the nod.
Before I forget, one of those news stories does go on to say that the Yemeni authorities are to conduct their own investigation, with a rider to the effect that nobody in the (remote) village where this happened is acknowledging that anything ever happened.
Now I think about it, I am amazed that a story this damaging leaked out at all.