Posted on 06/07/2009 5:46:13 AM PDT by milestogo
Woman caned in BD for talking to Hindu man
Sunday, 07 Jun, 2009 | 04:17 AM PST
DHAKA, June 6: A mother was caned for talking to a Hindu man in Bangladesh, police said on Saturday, prompting fresh concerns about a rise in cases of harsh treatment of women under religious laws.
The punishment was carried out in a remote village on the orders of village elders, local police chief Enamul Monowar said over telephone. The village elders found Kamala Begum, 38, a mother of four children, guilty under Sharia law of chatting with an unidentified Hindu man, Monowar said. Hindus make up around 10 per cent of Bangladesh’s population.
“The villagers got bundles of 25 sticks and hit her four times on the back. They claimed it was a symbolic punishment. But she’s humiliated and has been in great mental pain,” Monowar said.
It was the third such case reported in two weeks and stirred concern among women’s groups in the Muslim majority but officially secular country about a rise in brutal treatment of women under locally applied Islamic laws.
“In the last few months, we have seen villagers invoking Sharia to mete out barbaric punishments to women,” said Salma Ali, the head of rights group Bangladesh National Woman Lawyers Association.
Police have arrested one man and are looking for others who meted out the punishment to the woman in Shason in northeastern Bangladesh, Monowar said.
Earlier this month a man and a woman were caned for adultery after being convicted by a village court, police said.
Village courts are common in Bangladesh, particularly in more conservative rural areas, but are not recognised as legitimate courts of law. Also this month, a 22-year-old unmarried Bangladeshi woman was caned 39 times and left fighting for her life after saying a neighbour was the father of her six-year-old son.—AFP
But Charlie says we Americans have to be more understanding and “edumacated” about Islam...
And obama is cheering him on.
I don’t write this to be funny but it honestly sounds like she got off easy.
Can’t imagine being female and having to live under stone age Sharia law. Should they even call it law? Where’s the justice?
I am sure we need to further investigate these caning stories. Remember President 0bama told us last week that only Troglodytes here in the America believed this stuff about Islam. My guess is the woman volunteered to be caned. Just as Muslim women prefer to keep their heads covered in dark cloth in hot desert climates.
muslim women are not treated badly, Barry said so.
Muslims being Muslim.
Confirming, again, that even after 1400 years, Islam continues to bring us the best of the Seventh Century.
Islam is a cancer on humanity.
How about a little Liberal Outrage?
This can’t be right. My President told me that Islam was the religion of peace, justice, and tolerance.
Not a peep from the NOW nags...
More Obama proof of the existence of superior cultures outside of western civilization.(sarc.)
Coming soon to America, ladies.
Obama has said that the United States is a Muslim nation. Should we expect canings, stonings, and beheadings here? Oh, forgot, beheadings are already happening here. Obama’s change is soooooooo Muslim.
What in the world is wrong with these,...these, I don't even want to call them people, these total misanthropes?
They give “insane” a bad name.
Another planet? Hell, they're from another universe or galaxy.
“Can’t imagine being female and having to live under stone age Sharia law. Should they even call it law? Where’s the justice”
It was women that voted Obama, into office....
‘I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.... ‘ Barack Hussein Obama in Cairo Speech to Muslim world
Which is worse, Islam or Communism, another religion? The Communist have slaughtered millions at a time, just slaughtered them, simply for disagreeing or even for not being fervent enough. There is little difference between the methods and results of the two. Each is headed by One Supreme Leader who rules completely and arbitrarily.
Communism is the offspring of socialism. Socialism is where we are headed in this country and we are already part way there.
Ah, Sharia Law, don’t you just love it. Coming soon to Amerika via a tunnel from Mexico.
The 0bamaLie is asking Mozlems to be tolerant of others because both he and they know he’s just “pulling their finger” and nothing more.
Every word 0bama speaks is calculated. Unless his TOTUS goes on the blink, then he’s swimming without a life vest.
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