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    Women in Somalia forced by hardliners to shake their breasts
    Australian Herald
    Tuesday 20th October, 2009  


    Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing
    Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing "un-Islamic" bras.

    The orders have been carried out at gunpoint by a group called Al Shabaab, who are running the streets of Mogadishu.

    Women are publicly inspected to see if they have natural firmness or if there is assistance from a bra.

    The Daily Mail has reported that some women have been publicly whipped for wearing hidden undergarments, with insurgents claiming that it is a "deceptive" act to violate Islam by wearing bras.

    Al Shabaab is attempting to impose a strict interpretation of Sharia law over all Somalia.

    They have also been known to whip men caught without a beard.

    The group has also banned movies, most musical events, dancing at wedding ceremonies and soccer playing.

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    By World Saviour, 10-20-09, 07:31 AM

    Islamic women embarrassed by religious police

    These idiots must be crazy. They shouldn’t been borned to this world. They should be in hell. Why not going back to the ice age?
    By Nickhead, 10-20-09, 09:00 AM

    Practice it

    Please forgive my ignorant in Muslim teaching !!! We are practicing Syriah, so it is different from Sharia.
    By Women's Rights, 10-20-09, 12:32 PM

    you try it!!

    let’s have the men and gov’t walk around with 10lbs attached to their chests!!!
    By somedude, 10-20-09, 01:02 PM

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    Funniest thing ever... It’s mardi gras time in somalia :) just hope the extremists slip a bill for the breast shaking or at least a kiss...
    By reason, 10-20-09, 01:10 PM

    fundamentalism

    Is right-wing religious fundamentalism in any incarnation anything other than violent, stupid and insane? Take heed America, the Christofascists are only a hair’s breadth away from behaving like their Islamofascist cohorts.
    By Gary Rumain, 10-20-09, 01:30 PM

    These shabaab dudes sound like perverts!

    I know most arselifters are mentally ill but these shabaab clowns take the cake.
    By Somali, 10-20-09, 02:37 PM

    Insanity

    These people are not representative of the Somali people, or of the Islamic faith. What kind of a religious person tells women to take off their clothes in public? This is why we’re doing all we can to kill as many of this animals as we can....
    By M Rob, 10-20-09, 03:09 PM
    To By Reason - bad choice of a name considering your rediculously unreasonable post - Christofacist - are you insane - Christians don’t bother anyone - they don’t rip bras off of women - they don’t stone adulterers and they don’t whip men who don’t have beards - you sound like a moron.
    By dimanti, 10-20-09, 03:51 PM

    dimanti117@hotmail.com

    try to understand them at these sites: www.TheThirdJihad.com www.FaithFreedom.org www.TheReligionOfPeace.com Islam — the religion of peices,body peices.
    By krisii, 10-20-09, 03:52 PM

    dimanti117@hotmail.com

    www.TheThirdJihad.com www.FaithFreedom.org www.TheReligionOfPeace.com
    By Anonymous, 10-20-09, 04:11 PM
    this is lie news and us we are Somalian we can not accept like this kind of news. please respect the religion, and also the job you have.
    By MIXTER, 10-20-09, 04:29 PM

    POLITICAL SPECTRUM

    I take exception to the previous post that equates religous fundamentalism with the right wing of the political spectrum. Calling this anything but pure and simple fascist behaviour is deluding yourself. The NAZI party were socialists, (read :FROM THE LEFT), and they look even less evil than these insane muslim hoodlims. Calling evil
    By khadar, 10-20-09, 04:36 PM

    respect your readers

    Philippines news.net became anti Islamic religion and it is look like belongs by far extremest, because, we Somalian we know this report is lie and belongs by lier. so my advice today is please respect the Somalian and their religion. we are not all of us alshabab, but, that is not means you can report what ever you like or what ever they report alshabab against people, even if they are Somalian.
    By Zgny, 10-20-09, 04:38 PM

    Seems Respect is a one way street

    Seems to me Islam has gotten way to much respect and free passes through out history!!! http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/History.htm
    By Tsi, 10-20-09, 05:03 PM

    Khadar

    The practice of Muslims sticking their head in the sand every time Muslims practice injustice in the world is 99% of the problem here. If you keep insisting bad things
    By Tsi, 10-20-09, 05:05 PM

    Khadar

    aren’t happening, how can you fix them? Stop playing fantasy games, call the criminals in your own home camp, and stop them. And Syria is Sharia, BTW, they’re different English pronounciations of the same Arabic word. Nice try, though.
    By khadar, 10-20-09, 05:20 PM

    ph.news.net bellongs by who?

    is Philippines news.net belongs by Jews or Philippines? respect is not a one way street is believe what ever you believe but do not make to us hate report, like news report.
    By HinduThrust, 10-20-09, 07:10 PM

    Disgusting. . . . . . . .

    These guys are gettin more & more disgusting by each passin day.... Wot are they upto?? whr do they wanna go?? Back to the caves?? Send them & send them soon, no, not to the caves.... to hell.... Sooner the Better !!
    By Muslim, 10-21-09, 12:14 AM

    kidding ?

    is this
    By James N, 10-21-09, 12:24 AM

    Get rid of them

    2 words - bomb them.
    By PENIX, 10-21-09, 01:03 AM
    This article is a bunch of BULLSHIT! No pics or vids? You gotta be joking me! Journalism is DEAD!
    By Muslim from uk, 10-21-09, 01:04 AM

    Nothing to do with Religion

    This is nothing to do with Islam, Mullahs with twisted ideas using religion as a excuse for their own gain and greed for power. Islam teaches respect towards women, the Prophet of Islam said Paradise lies under the feet of your mother. Such a position of respect he has given to a women. It also says in the Quran to handle a female as if she was made of glass, meaning to be gentle and delicate with them, not to whip them. These people say they are implementing Islamic rule but the reality is far from it, would be more effective if the press reported them for NOT FOLLOWING THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS instead of constantly letting these people miss use the name of a religion.
    By the real truth, 10-21-09, 04:39 AM

    Become part of the non-violent

    Join the true non-violent group - non-believers. Lowest rate of crime, divorce. More intelligent on the average. And just in case someone brings up the 'Hitler and Stalin' argument, here are some facts: Hitler was a Christian. He made many statements about it. Here’s one from 1936: âWe were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.â Stalin grew up in a Catholic religious family and joined a seminary as a teenager expecting to enter the priesthood. Also, most people do not understand the true nature of Marxism. Marxism is not for, nor against atheism. Marxism says that the rich use religion to control the poor, ie
    By bnance, 10-21-09, 04:41 AM

    Don't Put Christians in this conversation

    Why do people attack Christians. I am a Christian who does nothing but raise my family, work, pay my taxes and practice my faith. You don’t need to fear Christians. However, if you’re smart, you will fear and speak out against the Islamic religion. If you think we’re so bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.
    By the real truth, 10-21-09, 04:42 AM

    Become part of the non-voilent (part 2)

    Marxism says that the rich use religion to control the poor, ie
    By the real truth, 10-21-09, 04:48 AM

    Become part of the non-voilent (part 3)

    hmmm. not letting me post my entire response. Marxism says that the rich use religion to control the poor, ie
    By Anonymous, 10-21-09, 05:21 AM

    Looks like situation normal with film footage for those that must watch.. muslim style

    Looks like clerics just love women.. check out this story about what happened in India recently... Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India’s Jharkhand state. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8315980.stm Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric. The incident occurred on Sunday in a remote village in Deoghar district.
    By Nisse, 10-21-09, 05:33 AM

    Not crazy

    These guys are not crazy, they are ordinary Muslims following an outdated book.
    By Chesty Bond, 10-21-09, 06:33 AM

    None Shall Pass

    I agree with Gary - incivility, disrespect for women and insolent prurience are all symptoms of the fundamentalist world-view.
    By BARBARIC RELIGION, 10-21-09, 09:07 AM
    THIS RELIGION HAVE CREATES MANY PROBLEM IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, 99.99% TERRORISM IS DONE BY MUSLIMS, AND NOW THOSE MUSLIM IS HUMILIATED WOMEN LOWER THE WAY A CIVILIZED PEOPLE TREATED A DOG? ALL WOMEN MUST AND HAVE TO REJECT THIS BARBARIC UNCIVILIZED MANNER AND TELL THE WORLD WHAT MUSLIM MEN DID!!!!DON’T ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT PEACE AND TOLERANT, IF YOUR MUSLIM MEN CAUGHT RED HANDED JUST A FEW DAYS AGO KILLING MUSLIM STUDENT IN PAKISTAN WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG TO ISLAM AND TALIBAN! ADN NEVER SAID RESPECT TO WOMEN WHEN THOSE STUPID BARBARIAN EVEN TRY TO MAKE CLUB OF POLIGAMY, AND NOW THOSE AGAIN MUSLIM IN SOMALIA TREATED WOMEN LIKE A PROSTITUTE? WHAT KIND OF TEACHING THIS RELIGION DID?
    By crazy people, 10-21-09, 09:17 AM
    the Prophet of Islam said Paradise lies under the feet of your mother. Such a position of respect he has given to a women. yeah, those muslim even making a poligamy club to insult us as women with the command of islam. It also says in the Quran to handle a female as if she was made of glass, meaning to be gentle and delicate with them, not to whip them. are you deaf? or even never read news paper? in our country we just WHIPPED a women because we follow SYARIAH LAW OF ISLAM. don’t always try to show us that islam is peacefull and all of this isnot related to religion, look at pakistan, afghanistan, iran, somalia and many more, all of that is muslim country and all of them always in constant war and killing each other
    By Anonymous, 10-21-09, 09:37 AM
    Dummy, not the Philippines News ,it is all over the website and newspaer, for your info,click on Irelandnews.net.The Somalian the modern pirates of the sea does not not have any kind one words to say because it is a lawless nation with out a leadership and goverment and additionally they are bunch uneducated people who do not know better.Women wearing that table cloth does not mean the are female.I guess it is a quick way to check the are reaaly a female or bomb warped around their chest. What do you think dummy Somalian.Ha,ha,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    By timbo, 10-21-09, 10:19 AM

    DM

    Its an article in The Daily Mail. ie it is racist/religious bull shit. I was there 2 months ago and its just a normal country. No one is being attacked for religious reasons.
    By conti, 10-21-09, 10:37 AM
    I wish we had the same in Italy.
    By for DM, 10-21-09, 11:12 AM
    Religious bull shit? cmon, we all fed up with this barbarian muslim pickup and spit on to a bloodied cow head in malaysia, and all those taliban that kill and still yelling God is great, what kind of God let their follower to kill indiscriminately? howmany terrorist can you find aside from the muslims? very seldom! you answer for it, and the facts is facts, you cannot always say something good about some religion that it’s follower is so un acceptable as immigrant in the whole world, they become the most unwanted immigrant even in their own world it self
    By Anonymous, 10-21-09, 11:13 AM
    Timbo,you have lot of guts in a country that dont fear anybody with or without AK47, Machine gun or pistol ready to use and when anger strike the mode of a Somalian character.The country is undecipline and ready to kill. A Nation starving for food and authorities among other does fear death or kill somebody without no reason except for the money and survival of the individual who lead and follows.
    By Embaresed to be a Christian anymore, 10-21-09, 02:21 PM
    To M Rob
    By smackdown, 10-21-09, 04:40 PM

    hey (reason, 10-20-09, 01:10 PM)

    stretching it a bit there. Last I checked most of these
    By Muslim from uk, 10-22-09, 01:31 AM

    Nothing to do with Religion

    Ok if you insist on putting the blame on religion and cant see the point I try to make of religion being taken by corrupt people as a excuse for their actions, then look at Ireland and the Catholics and protestants, these two groups have been at war with each other and committing acts of terrorism in the UK and havve been around from long before the rise of Islam in this world, now Islam is one of the dominant religions the same corruption so called
    By Dilawar, 10-22-09, 04:37 AM

    Game of the Secret Egensies

    Dear Reader, it is just the game of secret egensies to defame islam, as we have shown that in afghanistan in a video that a woman was stone to death, but later it was proved that it was a fake video which was released by the Centeral Investegation Agency (CIA)
    By Haroon, 10-22-09, 05:30 AM

    THOSE JERKS

    I am from Pakistan and this news make me laugh by so called Sharia, you know what Islam have really really really strict law and it forbid MEN TO LOOK UPON UN MARRIED WOMEN, you can read AHADEES, WISDOM BOOKS, QURAN, these words are openly defined, I think those AL SHABA OR WHATEVER ARE PAID AGENTS TO DEGRADE ISAM JUST LIKE TABLIAN AND AL QEADA WHICH GOT XPOSED BY MEDIA.
    By Momo, 10-22-09, 07:12 AM

    Look around

    If you think the west is so enlightened on this question, turn on Mtv or open a magazine. The burkah AND the thong are both hideous symbols of women’s oppression - two sides of the same coin. And we’ve got their side of the coin too - the powerful christian fundamentalist forces have already made strides in limiting a woman’s right to birth control and abortion while totally transforming the conversation to be one about the life of the fetus instead of what it’s really about - what role women will play in society.
    By Flabbergasted, 10-22-09, 09:59 AM

    Is this newspaper for real?

    Seriously, of all the angles this newspaper could have covered about the tragedy in Somalia caused by Islamic extremists, women shaking their breasts is the angle taken? This is pathetic. I wouldn’t even call it journalism.
    By Flabbergasted, 10-22-09, 10:14 AM

    Is this newspaper for real?

    Seriously, of all the angles this newspaper could have covered about the tragedy in Somalia caused by Islamic extremists, women shaking their breasts is the angle taken? This is pathetic. I wouldn’t even call it journalism.
    By Kelis, 10-22-09, 10:24 AM

    Milk Shake

    My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like, its better than yours, damn right its better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge
    By Anonymous, 10-22-09, 09:09 PM

    What?

    This is awful no matter who you are. It makes me sad to see so many people on this board rampantly defend their own ideology and strike down the ideologies of others just because a few individuals with guns are committing these atrocities. Fanaticism is fanaticism, no matter your religion.
    By meltingpot, 10-23-09, 06:35 AM

    italians : you idiots everywhere

    Well done for the conti commentary : you show us well how italians men may be idiot and prove how really love only their own mum.
    By Anonymous, 10-23-09, 02:25 PM

    Let us wish for muslims what they wish for us

    Practicing muslims are genocidal sociopaths determined to establish a global caliphate and return humanity to the seventh century. They wreck any economy they contact. Two thirds of people living in poverty across the planet are in islamic lands. This is not a coincidence.
    By Anonymous, 10-24-09, 05:26 AM

    Perverts

    This story has gone around the world and, because these male muslim perverts have been given the power to abuse women, the majority of countries now regard Somali males as inferiors, uncivilised and unfit to be called human.
    By rc2, 10-27-09, 08:51 AM

    Islam is from Satan

    Allah is not the same God that Jews & Christians worship. The acts of these people DEFINE the control of SATAN over their religion. The one true God loves us and wishes us to turn to Him OF OUR OWN FREE WILL. Islam is
    By rc2, 10-27-09, 08:53 AM

    Islam is from Satan2

    Islam is
    By sdfgsg, 11-07-09, 01:24 AM

    ?

    Every single time this kind of power is put into the hands of religious men, this is what they do. Look at crime statistics etc - the evil in humanity is largely on the male side. If men were properly raised and forced to follow correct standards of behaviour and compassion, these things would not happen. When will men grow up?
    By muslimpoxbyebye, 11-12-09, 11:47 AM

    muslims should be wiped out sooner

    FIRST THINGS FIRST .... THE KORAN IS NOT A HOLY BOOK....IT IS THE MOST EVIL AND RACIST AND SEXIST BOOK EVER WRITTEN. IT IS A SLUR TO THE WRITTEN WORD. IT IS AN INSULT TO HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. HAVE NO DOUBT. READ IT TO DISBELIEVE IT . ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD BE TRYING TO GET OUT OF ISLAM’S CLUTCHES . ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD BE TRYING TO GET OUT OF ISLAM’S CLUTCHES NOT ONLY FOR THEIR SAKE AND THEIR CHILDREN’S SAKE BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR FOREFATHERS AND FOREMOTHERS WHO WERE CONVERTED TO THIS EVIL AND VILE CULT BY THE SWORD AND FRIGHT. FORGET CHRISTIANITY IF ITâS SUCH A BIG ISSUE â¦MUSLIMS NEED TO MOVE OUT EN MASSE TO SOMETHING LIKE BUDDHISM. MUSLIMS SHOULD START REALISING THAT THEIR FOREFATHERS WERE FORCED INTO THIS BLOOD THIRSTY CULT BY BLOOD AND SWORD.THEY BECAME MUSLIMS OUT OF FEAR NOT BECAUSE THEY LOVED ISLAM. THE NEW GENERATION SHOULD SET THEIR FOREFATHERS' MISTAKES RIGHT BY GETTING OUT OF ISLAM EN MASSE (IN BIG GROUPS) AND RETURNING TO THEIR OLD PEACEFULL RELIGIONS OF THEIR GREAT GREAT GRAND PARENTS BEFORE THE MUSLIMS CAME AND TURNED THEIR LIVES AND MORALS UPSIDE DOWN. WHATEVER IS PREACHED IN THAT CULT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT GOOD PEOPLE AND CITIZENS SHOULD BE. START THE CHANGE NOW. ONLY THE MUSLIMS CAN HELP THEMSELVES SMASH THIS EVIL CULT THAT HAS GOT THEM AND THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY THE THROATS. THE WEST SHOULD BE HELPING MUSLIMS WITH A FREE SERVICE OR A NOMINAL CHARGED SERVICE WHICH COULD TRACE EACH OF THEIR ANCESTRAL ROOTS OR RELIGION PRACTICED BEFORE THEY HAD TO BOW TO ALLAH OR DIE HORRIBLY. THEN THE CHOICE WOULD BE THEIRS TO CONTINUE IN THIS EVIL CULT OR OPT OUT TO WHAT WAS THEIR LIFESTYLE OR RELIGION BEFORE THE MADNESS CAME. THE SERVICE COULD BE CALLED âBEFORE THE MADNESSâ. THE EDUCATED WEST HAS TO HELP THESE BARBARIC PEOPLE SEE THE LIGHT OF PEACE AND LAUGHTER SO THEIR CHILDREN AND WOMEN MAY APPRECIATE THE SUNLIGHT WHICH IS OUR PLANETâS BIRTHRIGHT. It is important that the justice system takes on disgusting islam by its dirty filthy evil horns. muslim dogma is for power grabbing at all levels and blood on muslim hands is considered a good sign. be it brother’s or mother’s or sister’s or father’s. it’s all about honor which translates into money. the less the relatives the more the money the murderer has.so the fighting and the bloodshed will never stop. to be muslim today is to recognise one’s self as A cursed human being⦠pure scum â¦very sadâ¦very bad. I have decided itâs better dead as a muslim than as a living muslim because muslims do not contribute anything to this planet except strife and hate which the rest of the planet somehow resents. all muslims should realise this too and do the needfull for this planet and commit mass suicide and meet and greet each other in heaven and admire each otherâs virgins there. moha-mad was an idiot in the true sense of the word.
    By Torrie, 11-23-09, 09:36 PM

    Sticks in the mud

    There no fun at all. :(
    By Leelen, 02-12-10, 06:25 PM

    stupid

    I can’t believe it! How stupid things can be imposed by the name of religion. Religion can’t give anything to the mankind. It gave nothing but wars and tortures...

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