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Hopefully common sense will prevail and she'll just get a small fine, the law allows this."What has happened was not haphazard or carried out of ignorance, but rather a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam," the Sudanese Assembly of the Ulemas said in a statement.
Maybe, but she would not have been arrested, charged and potentially whipped with a lash as a result.One or two eyebrows may have been raised.
Maybe, but she would not have been arrested, charged and potentially whipped with a lash as a result.
"What has happened was not haphazard or carried out of ignorance, but rather a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam," the Sudanese Assembly of the Ulemas said in a statement.
You haven't met my Step-Father in law, who has come out with such gems as
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Madonna should be whipped for blaspheming the holy mother
(basically any one who isn't a white catholic gets this treatment from him)
Unfortunately she should have been more atuned to the sensibilities of the country she was in - perhaps warned by the school head of the religous sensibilities of the Suadanese.
its a bit rich that we've to fall in line with local traditions when we travel to such countries whereas they expect us to accept their traditions when coming here.
EG Certain muslim women wear full head dress here but if western women wore shorts there they'd most likely be locked up or flogged.
There are certain things that you shouldn't do in certain countries...
In Germany - make jokes about the holocaust
In Ireland - name a racehorse The Virgin Mary
In USA - dress up as Bin Laden in a Texan bar
...
but I'm sure there are plenty of areas of Irish culture that seem mad to the Sudanese...
Sudan is the country that has given the world Darfur by the way, so focusing on this particular case which involves a single westerner seems a little rich to me.
Yet another example of fundamentalist religious zealots in insecure, paranoid hyper-sensitivity mode.
I wish the foreign office in U.K. would challenge this charge at the highest level.
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