Somali women beaten for not wearing socks.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Somali women beaten for violating Islamic law, officials say
By Mohammed Amiin Adow, for CNN
October 29, 2009 6:45 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Militants who control parts of Somalia's capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu.

"Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to the streets around Bakara market and they are flogging any woman who is found not wearing socks," according to a female maize trader at the Mogadishu market, who spoke Thursday.

She did not want to be named for security reasons.

In the past two days, more than 130 people, including women who were not wearing headscarves and men chewing dried khat leaves, have been detained for violating Al-Shabaab's interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, according to witnesses and officials.

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[Quantess]

1. There's fashion police, and then there's FASHION POLICE.

[Barack_America]

2. So let me get this straight. Socks, yes. Bras, no.

Weren't they recently beating women for wearing bras?

What's their position on panties? I've got to assume thongs are out.

:eyes:

[Warpy]

3. I dream of the day those women have simply had enough

and take the sticks away from those hooligans and beat them within an inch of their miserable lives.

Religious police, my ass.

[katanalori]

4. Sick, twisted fucks.

The bullies simply get off on beating women and will find any excuse to do so.

[charlie]

5. Somali woman whipped for wearing a bra

When most people have trouble mustering enough rice to fill their bellies, the first order of business is to beat the shit out of women. Of course. Naturally. Makes plenty of goddamned fucking sense to me.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/alaa-alaswany-when-women-are-sinners-in-the-eyes-of-extremists-1810447.html