Sudanese woman whipped in the street for wearing trousers

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This shocking footage was filmed on a camera phone of a woman being publicly whipped in the street for wearing trousers under her clothing, apparently for breaking "decency laws" in the Sudan under Sharia law. It shows people laughing as they watch the woman pleading and trying to get away from being hit.
On more than one occasion it shows her being struck in the face.

This shocking treatment is government backed - the president of Sudan has ordered his police to seek out these supposed "trouser girls" - "Despite claims of morality they have a reputation for dishonesty and demanding sexual favours", apparently.

Just really makes you think about how far some countries have to go towards becoming a civilised nation in my opinion.
 
Sadly some of them will just remain as uncivilised barbarians unless they can get rid of the lunatic fundamentalists in charge.
 
can't see it with my ipad it contains the outdated flash player.

Come on BEEB get HTML5 :(

The people are just people it's the ones in charge that are clearly under some sort of religious insanity.
 
vicisthebest said:
Just really makes you think about how far some countries have to go towards becoming a civilised nation in my opinion.
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They probably think the same sort of thing about us. It is THEIR Country with THEIR Laws, nothing to do with us, let them get on with it, the woman lived there so knew the Laws, she chose to ignore them, she suffered the consequences.

We get outraged when other Cultures try to enforce their views on us, so why would us trying to force our views on them be any different to them?
 
Who needs time team to see what life would have been like in the dark ages :( (I know, the dark ages were not in fact so!) Hate intolerance like this. Despise religion. Not writing in sentences today for some reason.
 
doofer said:
They probably think the same sort of thing about us. It is THEIR Country with THEIR Laws, nothing to do with us, let them get on with it, the woman lived there so knew the Laws, she chose to ignore them, she suffered the consequences.

We get outraged when other Cultures try to enforce their views on us, so why would us trying to force our views on them be any different to them?
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While I agree with your sentiment, I believe that your statement perhaps doesn't hold true when directed towards human suffering.

If somebody wishes to do something material or symbolic due to their local beliefs, then I would never suggest I have a right to challenge it. I don't live there, I'm not a citizen and I have no real understanding to base my argument in. However, when the punishment for wearing the wrong article of clothing is to be publicly whipped, then I think from a purely humanitarian point of view I have a right to speak out.

I don't believe corporal punishment is justified in any sense, I certainly don't believe it's justified simply because a woman wore the wrong type of stitched material on her lower half. Whether there is basis in other societies for corporal or even capital punishment for serious crimes, then that's another argument, but that she should suffer because of her sex and the fact she wore the wrong type of clothes? it's intrinsically wrong and no amount of nationalism on their part can make it any less so. You only have to look to our suffragette movement to see why its wrong if you need a reason why we as a nation understand the issue of sexism...

the only way this will change is if enough people voice their disgust, and luckily as we now live in a world-wide media enriched society, this very slow but ultimately effective mechanism can be used cross-nations.
 
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doofer said:
They probably think the same sort of thing about us. It is THEIR Country with THEIR Laws, nothing to do with us, let them get on with it, the woman lived there so knew the Laws, she chose to ignore them, she suffered the consequences.

We get outraged when other Cultures try to enforce their views on us, so why would us trying to force our views on them be any different to them?
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And all in the same week when some were outraged about the treatment of a handicapped person during some protests...
 
doofer said:
They probably think the same sort of thing about us. It is THEIR Country with THEIR Laws, nothing to do with us, let them get on with it, the woman lived there so knew the Laws, she chose to ignore them, she suffered the consequences.

We get outraged when other Cultures try to enforce their views on us, so why would us trying to force our views on them be any different to them?
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Completely agree. It's totally relative. Just leave them to it. Nice to have such an open-minded view in a thread like this.
 
doofer said:
They probably think the same sort of thing about us. It is THEIR Country with THEIR Laws, nothing to do with us, let them get on with it, the woman lived there so knew the Laws, she chose to ignore them, she suffered the consequences.

We get outraged when other Cultures try to enforce their views on us, so why would us trying to force our views on them be any different to them?
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Are you being serious?
 
Lysander said:
You break the laws, you pay the consequences.
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I agree, however in this case it is a law forbidding women wearing trousers UNDER other garments and the consequence being PUBLIC WHIPPING.

I like to think that as a species we may have moved on from this sort of blatant barbarism.
 
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