Not very tolerant, is it? http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/29/somalia.women.flogged/index.html?eref=rss_latest Somali women beaten for violating Islamic law, officials say By Mohammed Amiin Adow, for CNN October 29, 2009 6:45 p.m. EDT (CNN) -- Militants who control parts of Somalia's capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu. "Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to the streets around Bakara market and they are flogging any woman who is found not wearing socks," according to a female maize trader at the Mogadishu market, who spoke Thursday. She did not want to be named for security reasons. In the past two days, more than 130 people, including women who were not wearing headscarves and men chewing dried khat leaves, have been detained for violating Al-Shabaab's interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, according to witnesses and officials. Hooded Al-Shabaab gunmen rounded up 50 women on Wednesday from Mogadishu's Bakara market for not wearing the veil that is required for women under some interpretations of Islamic law, according to the maize trader. "Most of these women were vegetable traders, so they are poor and can't afford to buy veils for 600,000 shillings [about $23 U.S.]," she said. She said she saw more women being detained Thursday. Another 80 Somali civilians were detained in the southwestern town of Luuq, near the Kenyan and Ethiopian border, "because they turned deaf ear to orders we imposed on the town," said the local Al-Shabaab commander Sheikh Hussien al-Iraqi. Al-Shabaab is considered a terrorist organization by the United States because of its ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. It has been imposing stricter rules on Somali civilians living in the areas it controls. Earlier this month, Al-Shabaab militants whipped women for wearing bras in an area of northern Mogadishu that they control, shocking residents who have been besieged by the ongoing insurgency. The militants believe the female undergarments are a deception to men
I've long believed we should give EVERY inmate in a U.S. prison cell the chance to have their sentence commuted in exchange for being given an assault rifle, a healthy supply of ammunition, $10,000 USD, an airlift to Somalia, and the revokation of their US passport/Citizenship. It would be ugly for a while, but that place could probably be whipped into shape in no time at all, piracy included, while helping to dramatically cut a tremendous cost center in the U.S.. Apparently, even the "Government" and "Government officials" of Somalia wont enter the country. Sounds like no-mans land to me.
I don't understand why women are not respected. Suppose it was their mother or sister beaten? I am curious if they believe in their religion so strongly that they wouldn't care may actually do the beating?
RELIGIOUS WOMAN BEATEN BY CHAREIDI MEN ON #2 BUS LAST FRIDAY she is safe with Arabs, got beaten by her fellows the religious Jewish men! what was interesting, other women thought she was crazy, like she should get punched, slapped, kicked, and smile for the men for beating her! I don't understand why women are not respected. Suppose it was their mother or sister beaten? I am curious if they believe in their religion so strongly that they wouldn't care may actually do the beating? Imagine if she was an Arabian woman in Jewish quarter?
This was from your link "A friend sent me this unbelievable story, which needs to be told. It sounds incredible, but all the facts are verifiable. " Sorry I don't consider rumours passed down by these "sites" to be something worth commenting on. If true, the people should be arrested, and Israel if the police are there they will. The difference is that in the beatings I mentioned the governments are the ones doing the beatings.