November 28, 2009

Sharia in the Fast Lane

(Khartoum, Sudan) Over a period of merely 90 minutes, a 16-year-old Christian girl, Silva Kashif, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced and flogged under sharia law for wearing a short skirt. She received 50 lashes for the crime of offending public morality.

Reportedly, the skirt hung between the knee and ankle and was quite appropriate in Kashif's community. However, the Sudanese Islamic morality police thought differently.