July, hot and usually slow for many of us, was a month of humiliation and pain for 164 Muslim women sentenced to a public flogging for “crimes” as varied and absurd as wearing trousers in public to having sex outside of marriage in countries as far afield as the Maldives, Sudan and Malaysia,
The most famous of those 164 is Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese journalist who was among 13 women arrested by police at a Khartoum café on July 3 and charged with violating the country’s “decency laws” by wearing trousers.
Ten of those women accepted a fine and flogging but Ms. Hussein and two others contested the charges, which they’re now fighting in court. The Sudanese regime barred her from traveling to Lebanon earlier this week to give a television interview on her trial, which resumes on Sept. 7. […]
One hundred and sixty-four women were sentenced to flogging in July alone. Where is the outrage?
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August 25, 2009 at 3:43 am
Muslim women are discriminated against all around the world – not just in Muslim nations.
Muslim girl gets kicked off soccer field: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/11938–11-yr-old-girl-kicked-out-of-soccer-game-because-of-religious-garment
Muslim women in the work place:
http://www.muhajabah.com/anti-hijab.htm
http://pluralism.org/news/view/15941
So, no matter where Muslim women go, they’re subjected to prejudice. Sucks to be a Muslim woman I guess. Maybe they should change religions.