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KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting at the trial Tuesday of a female journalist who faces a flogging for wearing trousers in public.
Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein could receive 40 lashes if found guilty of violating the country's indecency law which follows a strict interpretation of Islam. The 43-year-old says the law is un-Islamic and "oppressive," and she's trying to use her trial to rally support to change it.
"I am not afraid of flogging. ... It's about changing the law," Hussein said, speaking to The Associated Press after a heari
Originally posted by Retseh
Here is the religion of peace and equality hard at work again,
Originally posted by Retseh
this time putting women under the lash because they dared to pull on a pair of pants.
Originally posted by Retseh
The tide is turning against Islam, and the women are leading the charge.
I say good for her for standing up what she believes is right (and it is right).
Thats the main thing with islam I have a prob with, the way they treat women.
Even here in the states in the middle of the summer I'll see muslims families out and about and the husbands are wearing just regular clothes like shorts and stuff, while the women are covered in burqas or whatever, and they always look freaking miserable!
Originally posted by masonwatcher
Funny you dictate the terms of engagement on this thread yet you push your odd agenda on the back of it what with the "tide turning on Islam and women leading the charge" nonesense.
You do realise that Sudan is country being destabilized and fragmented by Israeli and petroleum corporation activities? But then you turn around and declare the end of a world religion and support Sudanese women. These women are Arabs and Muslims, the bane of your alien political interests.