Koran
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While US university student governments debate one anti-Israel divestment measure after another, here is what is going on in Sudan as we speak. Keep in mind this woman who is facing execution is the wife of a US citizen.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/14/Execution-Could-Come-Thursday-for-Young-Pregnant-Mother-in-Sudan-Unless-She-Reverts-to-Islam
5 comments:
Shall we send in the Navy Seals?
Really, I wouldn't mind, but howls of outrage are cheap. If we're not prepared to rescue her, and we're already about as far apart from the government concerned as we could be, what exactly do you propose?
More twitters from Michelle Obama? We already know where you stand on that...
I propose making sure as many people as possible understand the ideology that is sending that poor woman to her death. That is all I can do.
But Gary, YOU don't have a clue about the "ideology" that is sending that poor woman to her death.
First, this is Sudan. Sudan has been run by a series of military coup established authoritarian governments since the 1960s. There have been times when either communists, or Salafists, have thought that the military were working for them, but the guys with the guns soon put both in their place. Communists, Salafists, both are useful idiots to men who care only about perpetuating themselves in power.
Shariah law is written into Sudan's constitution, as a sop to the latter group of useful idiots. It lies there dormant, except when someone has an opportunistic use for it. In this case, it appears that male relatives of the woman's father are looking to get their hands on some money, and filed a complaint. Most of this stuff starts with something that sordid.
Now, what is the ideological connection with the village in Bangla Desh where the father of a girl raped by her uncle was telling her she should commit suicide to save the family honor, and the village elders, applying Sharia as they understood it, directed the girl to hit her father on the forehead with her shoe? (For all you UC Santa Cruz community studies majors, that is a terrible shame for the father, in many Asian cultures, including some where Islam has become the dominant religion).
Its not unlikely that some deal will be worked out where money is paid to the instigators and the woman will be expelled from Sudan eventually. But if she is hanged, I'm sure she will die happy that you have tried to give people half way around the world an understanding of an ideology.
Siarlys,
Read the judge's words.
Words are cheap. We know what his rationale is. What put that judge in power and why is he grasping for those words, to what end? And is that a matter of world significance, or a sordid episode in a village in Sudan?
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