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| Sudan Punishes Christian Woman For Not Wearing Headscarf |
| 2004-05-27 |
| Sudanâs Islamic regime in Khartoum lashed and fined a young Christian Sudanese woman on April 14 for not wearing a headscarf in public in the capital city. Cecilia John Holland, 27, was traveling by minibus to her home in the Khartoum suburb of Haj Yousif on the night of April 13 when she was arrested by a group of 10 public-order policemen. The police told Holland that no one in Khartoum, âeven a non-Muslim,â was exempt from Islamic bans against wearing improper dress. Earlier this month, the Khartoum government refused to compromise on its insistence that Islamic law govern all Sudanese citizens residing in Khartoum. More than two million non-Muslim southerners live in and around the capital, displaced by the last 20 years of civil war between the African Christian-animist south and the Arab Muslim north. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #3 Hey brainless twat, are French muslim girls lashed if they attempt to wear'em to school? No. Why? Cos they don't live in a savage society. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-20 6:16:32 AM |
| #2 Well the French do it the other way..... no head scarfs there |
| Posted by: Spoluth Snurt2166 2004-10-20 5:18:11 AM |
| #1 Yes, yes, I know you're not a Muslim, but an infidel. However, you must wear the hat! I wonder how many "lashes" she recieved and what the fine was (in goats, not dollars). Guess Amnesty Int'l was too busy lashing out at the WoT to notice this one or what's going on in western Sudan where SLAVERY still runs supreme, along with butchering others! |
| Posted by: BA 2004-05-27 9:28:52 AM |