Violence Against Women
Until we deal with the violent subjugation of women, we are doomed as a society, and perhaps as a species. I know that this will be an extreme view to some, but I have been coming inexorably to this conclusion over many years.
Aside from revealing the awful truth, and personally supporting the women I know in any way I can, I am not sure what else to do. But, I won't stop thinking about this ongoing brutality and injustice, because, seemingly it underpins all that is wrong with the world, and if I want to affect the world for the better, I may as well start at the very beginning of oppression. This is a very disturbing video from the Sudan.From YouTube: This Video clip depicts the scene of a Sudanese girl receiving blows whip all over her body at a police station in Khartoum this week, a wave of condemnation by the Sudanese on the Internet and newspapers concluding that, what happened was exceeding the legal punishment and much amounted to physical torture and severe humiliation. The film shows the police carry out the punishment of flogging with a whip on the Sudanese girl in front of a crowd of people. The Girl received blows whip all over her body from the legs, back, arms and head wildly and violently. The girl was crying and lying on the ground squirming in pain, begging the policeman to stop hitting her, before another officer assisted him and participated in the beating. It appears through the person who filmed the scene, if not one of the policemen, he should be well known to them. Hundreds of responses to the sites and electronic forums on the World Wide Web described the incident heinous and barbaric crime, and condemned to be in the name of Islam and Shariah. Repeated complaints of citizens in the Sudan from the excesses of the police and the power of the public order police to arrest people and bring them to trial on various charges. This confirms what happened recently when public order policemen arrested a group of men involved in the fashion show and bring them to trial and convicted them. Lubna Ahmed Hussein, a journalist from Sudan in an earlier meeting with the media said that the trials of public order print minimalism, where the accused does not get a chance to defend him/ herself, this is what happened to her also. And that all procedures are performed on the same day of the hearing, trial and execution.
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