Things it’s good to hear are now lying in the dirt…
A leaflet listing the regulations for women under Islamist rule now lies in dirt here at the tribunal in Timbuktu. Rule No. 1: The veil should cover the entire body. Rule No. 4: The veil cannot be colored. And Rule No. 8: The woman should not perfume herself after putting on the all-enveloping fabric.
Any of those rules or other rules broken? 95 lashes.
Several days after French special forces parachuted in and liberated this storied city, there is a growing sense of freedom. Though in the houses immediately facing the Islamic tribunal, many of the 8- and 9-year-old girls are still wearing the head covering.
“It is out of fear of the Islamists that they still wear this, says Diahara Adjanga, the mother of one girl said Thursday.”They hit everyone — even children.”
That’s what they do – they hit everyone. Meaning of life, to them. Impose hateful life-denying rules on everyone and especially on women, and hit everyone who “disobeys” no matter how trivially. A strand of hair escapes? WHAM.
Fatouma Traore, 21, said that there was one commander who was especially brutal to the women in Timbuktu.
“We don’t want the army to catch him. It’s the women who want to arrest him so that we can kill him ourselves. … Even if you’re talking to your own blood brother on the stoop of your house, they hit you. Even if you are wearing the veil, and it happens to slip off, they hit you. This man, Ahmed Moussa, he made life miserable for women. Even an old grandmother if she’s not covered up, he would hit her.”
She picks up her 1-year-old niece and hoists her on one hip, saying: “We even bought a veil for this baby.”
I hope she gets over the wanting to kill him part, but I can see where it comes from.
You should alert Twisty Faster so this may be added to the Global Accords Governing Fair Use of Women.
Hooray for French Imperialism!
No, I think the women should kill the man as an example of what happens to the monsters who act like Ahmed Moussa did. There’s bound to be abundant evidence to convict him.
Evidently it’s only Muslims who have been allowed to do these horrible things to women…they need to be stopped by any means necessary.
You forgot to mention that on the way out, the islamists mined the airport, mosques, roads, and marketplaces. Because nothing communicates god’s love like landmining a civilian population you aren’t allowed to control.
The end of that article veers off into the absurd:
Yes, God is surely the one to thank.
God is French?
Mon Dieu!