Sa nu porti pantaloni

Femeia nu este egala cu barbatul.
Barbatul are drept de viata si de moarte asupra femeii.
Femeii nu trebuie sa i se vada chipul.
Femeia este plina de pacat.
Femeia nu are voie sa poarte pantaloni.
Femeia trebuie biciuita.

Nu, nu este Evul Mediu. Este cultura islamica din ziua de azi: A martyr to her trousers. Este efectul religiei asupra creierului uman. Este totalitarianism si conservatorism si tampenie.

IN SOME settings, light-green slacks would be merely a fashion crime. In Sudan they may actually be against the law. Lubna Hussein faces 40 lashes and an unlimited fine if she is convicted of being inappropriately dressed in public—for wearing those slacks. She was arrested a month ago, under Article 152 of Sudan’s criminal law, which forbids “indecent clothing in public” without specifying exactly what that means. According to Ms Hussein, ten of the 12 women arrested with her immediately accepted they had been improperly dressed. They each got ten lashes and paid a fine equivalent to $100.

Ms Hussein, however, insisted she was innocent, and says she has done nothing wrong in the eyes of the Koran or Sudanese law. Moreover, she has cleverly embarrassed the authorities by turning her ordeal into a media circus. A journalist, she printed 500 invitations to her trial and sent out e-mails to the world’s press, inviting them to her flogging. Women’s-rights campaigners, foreign diplomats, journalists and well-wishers flooded into the court. Working as a press officer for the UN, she could have benefited from a form of diplomatic immunity to escape prosecution altogether. But the plucky Ms Hussein quit her job, the better to fight her case. She wants to put the law on trial. At a further hearing this week almost 100 protesters, mainly women, lined up outside the court. Some carried signs suggesting Sudan was going back to the Dark Ages.

Deci cine este pentru Islam? Cine ridica mana sa ne povesteasca despre meritele sale?

Astept comentarii pline de fervoare despre intelepciunea plina de poezie mistica a "adevaratului" Islam, care de fapt nu este asta aratat de nemernicii de pagani, ci cu totul altfel.

Mama voastra... Mama noastra...

:(

PS: Un alt articol despre religie si toleranta si erezie aici: Where freedom is still at stake. Tot in context islamic. Tot din The Economist.

TO MOST Western ears, the very idea of punishing heresy conjures up a time four or five centuries ago, when Spanish inquisitors terrorised dissenters with the rack and Russian tsars would burn alive whole communities of ultra-traditionalist Old Believers. Most religions began as heresies. Today the concept of “heresy” still means something. Every community built around an idea, a principle or an aim (from fox-hunting enthusiasts to Freudian psychotherapists) will always face hard arguments about where the boundaries of that community lie, and how far the meaning of its founding axioms can be stretched. But one of the hallmarks of a civilised and tolerant society is that arguments within freely constituted groups, religious or otherwise, unfold peacefully. And if those disputes lead to splits and new groups, that too must be a peaceful process, free of violence or coercion.

How depressing, then, to find that in the heartland of one of the world’s great religions, Islam, charges of heresy are still being bandied about in a violent and threatening way, in the hope of silencing critical voices.