Sharia Alert: A system such as Sharia, with insufficient (or mostly absent) limitations on power, lends itself to even more imaginative abuses than are explicitly stated in the letter of the law. "Somali women beaten for violating Islamic law, officials say," by Mohammed Amiin Adow for CNN, October 29:
(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.
There is such contempt and cowardice among the pious muslim that when l read of these cowardly muslim men attacking women l just want to go there and take them down. l do not hear the Western feminists concerns about how these Muslim women are treated by their masters. where is the outcry l say?
They have to wear socks, but they can't wear bras?
Are Somali Muslim men excited by the sight of an exposed ankle, but bare breasts do nothing for them at all?
Ah, the beauty of Islam!
There is such contempt and cowardice among the pious muslim that when l read of these cowardly muslim men attacking women l just want to go there and take them down. l do not hear the Western feminists concerns about how these Muslim women are treated by their masters. where is the outcry l say?
...they are in the cleaners...ok?
Since bras are "deceptive", I wonder how control-top pantyhose is classified? Haram or Halal? How would the jihadis check to see if muslimahs aren't wearing them? I think that pantyhose is a sort of sock........
Being a sharia government is tougher that one would think.
Brutality and sexual kink as a cultural ideal.
Brutality and sexual kink as a cultural ideal.
Underware jihad!
Remember that old Woody Allen movie, Bananas?
"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!"
http://www.mooviees.com/476/quotes
Time to remake this movie, and bring it up to date.
If I were a Somalian woman, God forbid, I would consort with my fellow sex-slaves/chattel and arrange to bomb every mosque within a 100 mile radius on a Friday while the pious, neanderthal savages were grovelling to Satan. If that didn't take care of most of them, I would find a way to eliminate them individually. These apes are not human beings; there is hardly a word to describe them.
Animals like these beasts cannot be changed; they must be eradicated. I wonder why the Human Rights bleeding hearts are not interested in the brutal treatment of these poor women. My God, it's difficult enough to eke out a living in that miserable hellhole full of raving lunatics without being subjected to the brutality and cruelty of a gang of retrograde savages drunk on islam.
But aren't socks deceptive? The feet of those Somalian women must be pretty rough with that climate...the socks might make them look more sleek and beautiful, hiding the chapped, calloused skin. Or at least add to the mystery.
"My, this girl is pious. I bet her feet are to die for..."
""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."
Either she doesn't know anyone who has internet access, or she doesn't know where to shop online for "veils".
As for the sock jihad, it's plain to see that there are some men who just have too much time on their hands. What kind of lunatic gets paid to think this stuff up?
Forget Paris. In Somalia, the fashions change, literally, every day. My fashion prediction is that tomorrow, women will be obliged to wear socks, but will be flogged if they dare to wear shoes.
What's ridiculous is the idea of a currency that you need half a million of it to buy a scarf.
Again we see that Sharia is the most awful (and idiotic) legal system ever devised and again we see that Muslim men are very good at beating up on Muslim women. A partial route to eradicating Islam is through inculcating in the human race at large that Islam is deeply misogynistic and that it produces bullies, not gentelmen, among it males.
Hey, moderate Muslims, all you intrepid moderate Muslims out there, where are you denouncing all this rot? Ah, you're not there again. No surprise.
Brutality and sexual kink as a cultural ideal.
Brutality and sexual kink as a cultural ideal.
more socks for Muslims women mean less socks for the men...a lot of Muslim men don't wear socks...just sandals...
allowing women equal right is just Un-Islamic...
In their burkhas, they cover everything, except their feet. What's with that part of their nudity? The Jihadis here are right - no skin should show - whether it's hair, face, boobs or feet.
Those crazy Mo gangbangers! Bras--no! Socks--yes!
Note to Abscedere re your comment on $23 face-veils, etc.
You said: "Either she doesn't know anyone who has internet access, or she doesn't know where to shop online for "veils".
If she can't afford $23 for a face veil, what makes you think she can afford a computer for online shopping, not to mention getting anything delivered to her hut (unelectrified and with no plumbing) in Mogadishu, Somalia?
Can you put a little forethought into your cheap shots?