Azam: As a new muslim, i think you are seing the things completelly wrong, because it's the natural born muslims that think those kind of behaviors are natural while new converts that are "raised in a civilised society where such events are null" criticise such events.
Unfortunatelly, according to the press, UN has already it's sadness by the whipping of the woman. I'll try to leave the link here regarding that event

Ayman

Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ