No religion for women

[Tony]

Go and make everyone aware of the dark side of Islam , its true face , the face many muslim immigrants are bringing here in our Western world.

Sudanese women wear pants, flogged

Sudan has flogged several women for dressing “indecently”, according to a local journalist who was arrested with them. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who

says she is facing 40 lashes, said she and 12 other women wearing trousers were arrested in a restaurant in the capital, Khartoum.

Ahmed told the BBC several of the women had pleaded guilty to the charges and had 10 lashes immediately. Khartoum, unlike South Sudan, is governed by sharia law.

Several of those punished were from the mainly Christian and animist south, Hussein said.

Non-Muslims are not supposed to be subject to Islamic law, even in Khartoum and other parts of the mainly Muslim north. She said that a group of about 20 or 30 police officers entered the popular Khartoum restaurant and arrested all the women wearing trousers.

"I was wearing trousers and a blouse and the 10 girls who were lashed were wearing like me, there was no difference,” she said.

Photo showing Lubna Hussein’s clothing when arrested by Public Order Police

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/4774269.cms

Sudanese girls including Southerners get 10 lashes for “provocative dressing”

July 12, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — A number of Sudanese girls including Southerners were arrested by police last week on charges that they violated the public dress code, one of them told Sudan Tribune today.


Photo showing Lubna Hussein’s clothing when arrested by Public Order Police Lubna Hussein, a journalist and a public information officer at the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) was one of nine girls taken by the Public Order Police (POP) on Sunday from a ballroom in an area east of Khartoum.

The only thing in common between all those taken into custody was that they were wearing trousers, she said.

Hussein said they found four girls ahead of them waiting for interrogation by a judge in Al-Sagana court.

Among the detained were four from Southern Sudan, three of whom were under the age of eighteen, she added.

The Sudanese journalist said that no representatives from the Non-Muslims commission were present considering that the Southern girls were Christians.

The arrests took place under the Criminal Penal Code which states that anyone wearing “grossly clothing” shall be punished with no more than 40 lashes or a fine or both.

Ten out of the thirteen girls ended up receiving 10 lashes and fined 250 Sudanese pounds while the remaining three asked for their lawyers to be present and as such their cases were transferred to the deputy prosecutor.

Hussein said that some of the girls admitted guilt to the judge without appearing to be aware of its implications. She said that one girl told her that she just wanted to “get this over with”.

The Sudanese journalist said that the application of this section of the criminal penal code is damaging to a girl’s reputation in the Sudanese society.

She disclosed that one of the girls was “so terrified” before the judge that she urinated on herself.

Her case is yet to be heard before court.

Last year a senior police officer in South Sudan capital of Juba was sacked after he ordered a crackdown on young women wearing tight trousers.

Southern Sudan unlike the North is not governed by Islamic Shari’a law.

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article31792

[Skandi]

Interesting. The end of the conflict in the South is probably important to this. Less religion, more politics. The North is still trying to consolidate it's power in the South, a nice bit of 'religious' intimidation is probably part of this story. They want to stamp their authority on the Christian (different) Southerners.

[Tony]

Interesting. The end of the conflict in the South is probably important to this. Less religion, more politics. The North is still trying to consolidate it's power in the South, a nice bit of 'religious' intimidation is probably part of this story. They want to stamp their authority on the Christian (different) Southerners.

The northerners , arab and muslims , were used to harass southern women , crhistian and animists , also during the years of war , from 1983 until the truce signed a few years ago...
I read stories about sex/labor slaves , mainly girls and women , kidnapped , taken in Karthoum and then abused in every manner and eventually sold to someone else , it's quite normal over there.
There ain't no such democratic feelings or concepts like a secular state , the basic rights of an individual , these are western concepts totally stranger to them , it's another world.