Why Do Islamic Regimes LOOOVE Beating Women?????

[michael_ital]

Sudanese police beat women

By Mohamed Osman, The Associated Press

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.

Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former U.N. worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of "indecent dressing." Some of the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein while others wore more traditional dress.

Trousers are considered indecent under the strict interpretation of Islamic law, adopted by Sudan's Islamic regime which came to power after a coup led by President Omar al-Bashir in 1989. But activists and lawyers say the implementation of the law is arbitrary.

Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by the public order police on a popular cafe in Khartoum. Ten of the women were flogged at a police station two days later and fined 250 Sudanese pounds, or about $120.

But Hussein and two others decided to go on trial. She has sought to publicize her case internationally, inviting human rights workers, Western diplomats and fellow journalists to witness her trial.

"I am not afraid of flogging. ... It's not about flogging. It's not about my innocence. It's about changing the law," Hussein said, speaking to The Associated Press after the hearing Tuesday.

She said she would take the issue all the way to Sudan's constitutional court if necessary, but that if the court rules against her and orders the flogging, she was ready "to receive (even) 40,000 lashes."

Hussein wore the same clothes Tuesday she wore when arrested, including the dark-colored pants that authorities found offensive. Although she was required to wear the same outfit to court so the judge and others could see the clothing, Hussein said she's been wearing it every day to highlight her case.

In the clashes outside the courtroom, witnesses said police wielding batons beat up one of Hussein's lawyers, Manal Awad Khogali, while keeping media and cameras at bay. No injuries were immediately reported.

"We are here to protest against this law that oppresses women and debases them," said one of the protesters, Amal Habani, a female columnist for the daily Ajraas Al Hurria, or Bells of Freedom in Arabic.

While the police broke up the demonstration outside the Khartoum Criminal Court, the judge adjourned Hussein's trial for a month to seek clarification from Sudan's foreign ministry.

At the time of her arrest, Hussein was working for the media department of the U.N. Mission in Sudan, which gives her immunity from prosecution. She submitted her resignation after her trial began last week because she wanted to go on trial to challenge the dress code law.

Defence lawyer Jalal al-Sayed told reporters Tuesday the judge wanted to know whether Hussein still has immunity because her superiors have not yet accepted the resignation.

Hussein's hearings first opened last Wednesday but immediately adjourned to give her the opportunity to resign.

Hussein has lauded her supporters, saying they showed that "Sudanese women from different political parties and groupings stand with us."

The case has drawn criticism from the United Nations. The U.N. Staff Union urged authorities last week not to flog Hussein, calling the punishment cruel, inhuman and degrading.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply concerned" about Hussein's case and said flogging was a violation of international human rights standards.

[Voltage]

Why is this donkey back again?

[michael_ital]

To annoy wankers like you.

[ModerateMuslim]

i see... still slandering islam, eh? doesn't it get tiresome at some point?

[Voltage]

To annoy wankers like you.

By being an idiot with a brain the size of beetle dung? You don't have to try hard buddy.

[michael_ital]

Is it a slander though? Or just a thought provoking discussion?

[The Nomad]

i see... still slandering islam, eh? doesn't it get tiresome at some point?

Precisely.

I'd ask you how this isolated incident was representative of our entire faith, but there's no point.

[Voltage]

thought provoking discussion?

The irony. It's like a 6th grader trying to talk about quantum mechanics and wanting to be taken seriously.

[michael_ital]

To annoy wankers like you.

By being an idiot with a brain the size of beetle dung? You don't have to try hard buddy.

Says the guy at his crib eating slaves food. Chitlins ARE pigs guts, you do know right?

Nomad

Actually, you're wrong. It IS a good question. I'll clarify.

[FAH1223]

nothing "Islamic" about regimes even when they "Claim" to use sharia

never heard about islamic law tellin niccaz to beat women

[Voltage]

Says the guy at his crib eating slaves food. Chitlins ARE pigs guts, you do know right?

Pig's feet, but I am not surprised you didn't know.

[michael_ital]

Son, DON'T lecture me about Soul food. Chitlins are hogs intestines. But it don't surprise me you wouldn't know this.

[The Nomad]

Look at the murtad talking about his favorite gaalo delicacy.

If only you knew as much about Islam as you do about pork products.

[siren]

Re: Why Do Islamic Regimes LOOOVE Beating Women?????

Because we like it, what is it to you?

[michael_ital]

And if only you knew as much about real life as you do about your cyber life.

History in the United States
In colonial times, hogs were slaughtered in December. During slavery, in order to maximize profits, slave owners commonly fed their slaves in the cheapest manner possible. At hog butchering time, the preferred cuts of meat were reserved for the master's use, with the remains, such as fatback, snouts, ears, neck bones, feet, and intestines given to the slaves for their consumption.[2] Wealthier individuals considered pig innards (offal) as inedible and sometimes had them buried as garbage, but enterprising slaves would unearth them under cover of darkness and salvage them for the cook pot.[3]

April 22, 2003 The Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture accepted the papers of the Chitlin Market, a local business, as part of its emerging collection of materials about African American celebrations, foods and foodways.[4]


[edit] Food safety caution
Care must be taken when preparing chitterlings, due to the possibility of disease being spread when they have not been cleaned or cooked properly. These diseases/bacteria include E. coli and Yersinia enterocolitica, as well as Salmonella. Chitterlings must be soaked and rinsed thoroughly in several different cycles of cool water, and repeatedly picked clean by hand, removing extra fat, undigested food, and specks of fecal matter because the part of the pig the 'chitlins' come from includes intestinal polyps and the last few inches before the pig's anus. The chitterlings are then boiled and simmered until tender.


Bon appetit'