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By: ‘Enlightenment’ From Sudan: Female UN Worker Arrested For Wearing Pants, Subject to Lashing « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:31 +0000

[...] 31, 2009 Pickled Politics: A UN worker in Sudan, Lubna Hussein, is to appear in court today charged with wearing trousers. As [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:49:47 +0000

The late president (dictator) of Malawi – Dr. Hastings Banda – banned women from wearing trousers. He wasn’t a Muslim.

By: justforfun

justforfun — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:27:01 +0000

A womanâ€™s place is in the wrong!

Oi – thats a husband’s place – get your own spot. I was quite happy sleeping here.

justforfun

By: chairwoman

chairwoman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:45:03 +0000

A woman’s place is in the wrong!

(irony)

By: Humanist Animal

Humanist Animal — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:38:29 +0000

@Andrew: “Itâ€™s certainly nothing to do with Islam!”
@The Common Humanist: “Most definately not Islam.”

Of course this has everything to do with Islam! If Islam wasn’t there this would not have happened, it’s as simple as that.

By: fugstar

fugstar — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:12:02 +0000

Seem’s that muslim machismo has stooped down another level, shame because sudanese scholars can also be rather futuristic and clear minded on gender stuff. I do wonder why they are taking it out on her in particular. anybody? could be a vendetta of some kind.

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By: The Common Humanist

The Common Humanist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:37:10 +0000

This is gender power politics using religion as a shield. Bastards.

Most definately not Islam.

People can die from 40 lashes BTW.

What ‘Man’ would do that to another human being? Particularly for something that is not a crime.

I wonder if someone will try to explain the ‘context’ on this one?

By: Edna Welthorpe

Edna Welthorpe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:31:42 +0000

As the readers of PP know, there are internet sites featuring caning, whipping and play-flogging.

Doing this with an ethnic theme – costumes, music and so on – would be like an unexpurgated part of Pasolini’s ‘Arabian Nights’ and quite a draw!

Does the Sudanese Tourist Board know this?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:08:37 +0000

It’s certainly nothing to do with Islam! If it was, the entire female population of Pakistan, for example, would be in trouble! This is just a made-up charge to show the rest of the world who is boss in Sudan.

By: Carmenego

Carmenego — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00:43 +0000

@halima I absolutely agree!

Do you think if Allah or God were to come down here to visit, He’d be saddened more by a woman wearing trousers, or a woman being beaten for it? It really angers me when people use archaic and irrelevant rules to justify their lust for violence.

By: halima

halima — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:52:03 +0000

“…the arrests were less about principle and more about a need to show the strength of the regime’

Shocking. I am sick and tired of seeing women used to demonstrate something or another. Why don’t these masculine regimes pawn their own rights as men to show how hard they are.

That came out wrong, I didn’t mean to say we should curtail the rights of men, too. But you know what i mean.

By: Carmenego

Carmenego — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:33:25 +0000

Even if they were PVC trousers, or those ones with the bum cut out… LASHES?! It’s the 21st century ffs. Is there anything us lay folk can do about it?

Complaining about ID cards seems like small potatoes right now.

By: pickles

pickles — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:30:03 +0000

New blog post: Lubna Hussein in court http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/5331