You may want to brace yourself before clicking on this video. It’s not for the faint-hearted. It depicts a defenceless women being brutally whipped by a laughing, Sudanese policeman.
When a second policeman realises his colleague is being filmed, he decides to join in. The woman’s crime? She was wearing trousers, a breach of Sudan’s Islamic Legal Code.
This video is just the latest example in the litany of crimes against women committed in the name of Sharia, the so-called sacred law of Islam. In Iran, we have the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman condemned by a Sharia court to death by stoning for committing adultery; in Afghanistan, Bibi Aisha, the beautiful, 18-year-old who was tried by a Taliban court, found guilty of abandoning her husband and brutally disfigured. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
