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Save Amina Lawal!
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by
Rana (#656)
on Thursday, May 01, 2003 @07:12AM (#4318)
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Amina Lawal, a 30 year-old Muslim woman, was sentenced in March 2002 to death by stoning by a Shari'ah court at Bakori in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. (Death is inflicted by burying the victim in sand up to his/her neck, and then killing the victim by hurling stones at his/her head.) Amina allegedly confessed to having had a child while divorced. Pregnancy outside of marriage constitutes sufficient evidence for a woman to be convicted of adultery according to the new Shari'ah-based penal code for Muslims, introduced in Katsina State.
Go the following Amnesty International site to read the details of this horrific case. If you are sufficiently moved by Ms. Lawal's plight (as I expect you will be), there is an online petition to sign which will be conveyed to authorities in Nigeria.
http://thelink.concordia.ca
If that doesn't work, here's the address again, so that you can key it in manually:
http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/content.nsf/pages/g br_nigeria#action [amnesty.org]
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This is really a man's issue...
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by
Tambourine_Man (#285)
on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 @07:57PM (#5069)
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This comment is actually about a man's issue. Namely, the criminalization of nonviolent male sexuality. (Bill Clinton may be familiar with this one.) My latest journal entry talks about it...
03:49 PM - Kathleen Willey, indeed.
For the past few days, I have been corresponding with a girl who writes on the Link website. We had agreed to meet for a coffee this coming Friday.
By chance, when using the public phones, I ran into her. She is something of a public figure at Concordia and I knew who she was. I asked if we could talk and she said okay.
For the record, I did not say anything forceful or coercive. I took her hand for about a minute, and touched her briefly on the hips. She said, "I'm shy" and so I stopped. She smiled throughout the event, so I naturally assumed she was not bothered at all.
We stood in the stairway and talked about the politics at Concordia. She named some names, and was surprisingly candid. After about ten minutes, she said that she had to go. I said that I was going to check my email on the 9th floor. We had what I thought was a pleasant goodbye, and I thought that was the end of it.
About half an hour later, a security guard came up to me, and asked if I knew somebody named *** and I said that yes, I did. It turns out that she decided to call security. ... I had not harassed her in any way, but she decided to do this. For fun? Was she genuinely scared? I may never know.
(Read my journal if you are interested in the rest of it)
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