I'm not making this up......

Roscoe · #1 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 07:26 AM

Whipped for wearing a 'deceptive' bra: Hardline Islamists in Somalia publicly flog women in Sharia crackdown

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 11:16 PM on 16th October 2009

A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are 'deceptive'.

The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.

The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.

If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said.
Desperation: A woman feeds her child at a newly formed camp for refugees affected by drought in Somalia yesterday. Somalis are also contending with hardline Islamists seeking to impose a strict form of Sharia law on the country

Desperation: A woman feeds her child at a newly formed camp for refugees affected by drought in Somalia yesterday. Somalis are also contending with hardline Islamists seeking to impose a strict form of Sharia law on the country

Al Shabaab, which seeks to impose a strict interpretation of Sharia law over all Somalia, also amputated a foot and a hand each from two young men accused of robbery earlier this month.

They have also banned movies, musical ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer.

'Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of full veil and now they order us to shake our breasts,' a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.

'They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.'

392cobra · #2 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roscoe

The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.

If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said.

And the problem is ??

bomelia · #3 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 03:58 PM

Yeah, you know, once Obama is ousted from office, we will get a good Hawkish conservative in there and it will finally be time to clean up Somalia (another Clinton mess). After we free those folks, they will begin to remind us of how good they had it back in the "good 'ol days".

trularin · #4 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 05:31 PM

Fred, you are the definition of...well video expression.