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| Bangladesh |
| "Wear veil or die" Bangla women told |
| 2005-12-09 |
| A banned Islamist The statement by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen came hours after Thursday's suicide bomb attack in a northern town that killed at least eight people, the latest of a series of blasts blamed on Jilhaj refers to the Arabic month beginning early January. "Women, including non-Muslims, are hereby advised not to go out of home without burqa. Seclusion has been made compulsory for you," said the statement in Bangla language, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday. The group, which wants the introduction of sharia laws in mainly-Muslim Bangladesh, also ordered women students at Dhaka University not to step out after sunset, prompting police to increase security around the campus. Earlier, a police officer said 30 suspected members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and another outlawed group, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, were arrested for involvement in a wave of bomb attacks that have rattled the impoverished nation this year. "These bombers are enemies of Islam and must be stopped," said an official at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, adding the government had asked clerics to spread the message from the nation's 250,000 mosques. Actually, they represent the true form of this devil-worshipping cult. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #9 Moose, you're right as usual. I was just ... fantasizing. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-12-09 21:53 |
| #8 LOL Dr. Lec |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-12-09 21:22 |
| #7 This could be accompanied by the suggestion that , or women who, in number, castrate men that scream epithets and threats at them otherwise menace them, will be treated with the same concern that the police have previously shown to victims of rape. |
| Posted by: H Lecter PhD 2005-12-09 18:23 |
| #6 this so blows me away. Don't these guys have access to porno sites online? What's the big deal about making the women wear this nonsense. Do they feel they are that weak as to be tempted? I don't think I will ever understand this type of thinking. I like the gun and knife combo here ;) |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-12-09 18:06 |
| #5 Guns are an ideal, and take an awful lot to popularize as a means of self-defense in an ordered way. Short knives, however, are a natural for women, who are usually brutalized at close range. In the case of Bangla, what would evolve would be women in public in groups, now able to stop harassment cold with a few pokes. And when women assert themselves this way, it drastically and quickly forces men to behave themselves. Soon, women learn that knives are useful tools, and that other tools can be used in place of knives, if need be. This is a breakthrough realization. And when it happens, violence against women drops like a rock. Many men who would otherwise be violent against women now avoid them, and the great majority of men learn that they have to treat women well, if they expect to be treated well themselves. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-09 17:05 |
| #4 'moose, what's needed are guns AND knives. Guns to stop the sons of bitches. Knives - preferably slightly dull ones - to slowly castrate them after they are wounded. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-12-09 16:21 |
| #3 Go ahead, see if I care. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-12-09 15:40 |
| #2 Sounds like it's time for Bangla women to start carrying, and using, knives. Just put out a discreet police notice that non-burqua'ed women found to be carrying knives are not to be stopped for it, nor have their anti-rape device confiscated. This could be accompanied by the suggestion that women who, in number, castrate men that scream epithets and threats at them, or otherwise menace them, will be treated with the same concern that the police have previously shown to victims of rape. Society becomes a *lot* more polite when you don't know who is carrying a weapon or not. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-09 15:40 |
| #1 "Women, including non-Muslims, are hereby advised not to go out of home without burqa. Seclusion has been made compulsory for you," Is is just me or does it sound like spokes-hole for Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen has an aroused reaction to burkas... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-12-09 13:18 |