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Lubna 'ready for 40,000' lashes to change harsh law - The latest update today.
I just cannot believe...no, I do not want to believe, that in this day and age, a woman can still be whipped for wearing something inappropriate. And she was wearing trousers for crying out loud! Trousers! When every morning I can watch women dancing in their underwear on music videos.
There has been so many bad things going on in the western world lately, with shootings and murders and babies being killed (there was a woman in America who recently murdered her baby and ate its brains, and last week a whole family was bludgeoned to death in Melbourne - murderer and motive yet to be discovered). And yet, I find this story the most surreal to me. I want to bundle this woman up and take her home for being so damn brave. And I wish there was something, even a small thing, I could do to help.
By bringing the practice into the public eye "I've already won half the battle," she said, vowing to wear the same "indecent" clothes to her judgment tomorrow.
I just cannot believe...no, I do not want to believe, that in this day and age, a woman can still be whipped for wearing something inappropriate. And she was wearing trousers for crying out loud! Trousers! When every morning I can watch women dancing in their underwear on music videos.
There has been so many bad things going on in the western world lately, with shootings and murders and babies being killed (there was a woman in America who recently murdered her baby and ate its brains, and last week a whole family was bludgeoned to death in Melbourne - murderer and motive yet to be discovered). And yet, I find this story the most surreal to me. I want to bundle this woman up and take her home for being so damn brave. And I wish there was something, even a small thing, I could do to help.
By bringing the practice into the public eye "I've already won half the battle," she said, vowing to wear the same "indecent" clothes to her judgment tomorrow.
