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Somali Women Whipped for Wearing Bras

Underwear 'fraudulently advertises assets' to suitors

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(Newser) – Muslim Shabaab religious enforcers in battered Somalia are finding time to whip Muslim women for wearing bras. They're being punished because the underwear accentuates breasts and in some cases gives a "fraudulent" impression to possible suitors, reports the Independent. "Al Shabaab now orders us to shake our breasts," one woman told Reuters. "They are saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat."

The Shabaab Wahabi ideology bans films, plays, dancing at weddings, football matches and all forms of music, even musical cell phone ring tones. The whippings are the latest indication of a major crackdown on women's clothing in Islamic nations. A journalist was recently arrested in Sudan for wearing pants.

A Somali woman cries after she was injured in fighting in Somalia last months. Religious cops found time to whip another woman for wearing a bra.
A Somali woman cries after she was injured in fighting in Somalia last months. Religious cops found time to whip another woman for wearing a bra.   (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
A Somali child waits for food outside a United Nations registration center in Daadab, northeastern Kenya.
A Somali child waits for food outside a United Nations registration center in Daadab, northeastern Kenya.   (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)
Actress Angelina Jolie visits veiled Somali women in the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border last month
Actress Angelina Jolie visits veiled Somali women in the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border last month   (AP Photo/Boris Heger, UNHCR)
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WallyEFunk
Oct 28, 09 2:21 AM CDT
Religion what is it good for.absolutly nothing. Reply
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zackmasson
Oct 28, 09 2:25 AM CDT
uuuhh absolutely nothing! Say it again! lol
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shonangreg
Oct 28, 09 5:05 AM CDT
Religion, what is it good for? Uniting us as one in a common endeavor. Yeah, alright. But ain't that doomed to failure? No, it ain't. It just takes new thinking. Dum dum. No thinking. On one side or the other. Dum dum. We all just stay with our prejudices. Dumb dumb. No one is changing. That's what we get for thinking in sound bite. Ah ah ah ah ah.
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Unaffiliated
Oct 28, 09 7:09 AM CDT
Nice, shonan.
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dontlikeyou
Oct 28, 09 9:08 AM CDT
Stories like this help one to understand why Islam is spread only by the sword rather than by choice.
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