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  • Bono shocked by Muslim women's reaction to breastfeeding

    06/16/2005 6:26:59 AM PDT · by veronica · 413 replies · 7,725+ views
    Ireland Online ^ | 15/06/2005
    U2 frontman Bono was horrified during a visit to Ethiopia, when he saw local women pelting a breast-feeding aid worker with stones. The American woman was oblivious of the offence she was causing, and had to escape the angry onslaught from female Muslims who had no qualms about injuring her or her baby. Bono recalls: "I remember one vision of the people who are with World Vision, which is an American aid agency. "One of the women was breast-feeding a child on the horse. She was so comfortable. She didn't mean to be insensitive. "But the Muslim women did not...