Media howling, an Indian version of a horror movie?

The British tabloid, the Daily Mail has published a furious attack on Saudi Arabia, under the headline," The shame of Britain sucking up to these barbaric gangsters." The reason for the anger? A 74 year old British expat, Karl Andree was caught with bottles of wine in his car and has been sentenced to 350 lashes. Such punishments are carried out in public, in the square in front of the main mosque, on Friday after the noon prayers, called 'dhuhr' in Arabic. The person lies down on the ground and "...a white robed Islamist enforcer will exact the barbaric punishment as verses from the Koran are blasted from speakers of nearby mosques." Andree has apparently been fleeced of 35,000 pounds by a bogus lawyer. What the Mail is not saying is why Andree was brewing wine when everyone knows that alcohol is absolutely forbidden in the kingdom. There is a thriving underground market for locally brewed alcohol known as 'Sadiqi', available in bottles of mineral water. 'Sadiq" means 'friend' in Arabic. Normally, westerners are left alone in Saudi Arabia but if Andree had several bottles of wine in his car they may have suspected that he is selling them. To show its anger the Mail published the story of a Saudi man who beat his 7 year old daughter to death with an air-conditioning hose because she said that she did not love him. " The kingdom's extremist ideology, developed in the 18th century, is barely indistinguishable from the Islamic State," it says. Saudi Arabia is an extremely perverted society because of religious fanaticism. There is a fatwa which says that no woman can visit a hospital without a male guardian, who maybe anyone from brother to brother-in-law. Thus it is usual to find a brother present while his grown-up sister is exposed for examination. What has this to do with us in India? A 58 year old woman, Kasturi Munirathinam had her hand chopped off by her employer for complaining about her ill treatment. She had been beaten and starved. " When she tried to escape the harassment and torture her right hand was chopped off by the woman employer. She fell down and suffered serious spinal injuries," said her sister. The amazing thing is that there has been an absolute silence in the Indian media concerning this uncivilised savagery. But there has been concerted howling in the media, like a pack of coyotes, at a Pakistani singer's concert being cancelled in Mumbai. Why? Why should a Pakistani earn millions in India when it is Pakistani government policy to send in terrorists to kill Indians? Delhi Chief Minister has invited him to sing in Delhi. Like Mir Jafar invited the British. A lot of the media hysteria may even be based on outright lies. A Pakistani politician, part of the establishment, was invited to launch his book in Mumbai. Seems to be an Indian version of The Howling, a Hollywood horror movie. After all our media love the US.