Somalia: Sharia Enforcers Publicly Whip Women for Wearing Bras – Women Stripped, Beaten by Islamic Supremacists
Somalia: “Whipped for wearing a ‘deceptive’ bra: Hardline Islamists in Somalia publicly flog women in Sharia crackdown”
– Daily Mail reports:
– “A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are ‘deceptive’.”
– “The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.”
– “The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.”
– “If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said.”
– “Al Shabaab, which seeks to impose a strict interpretation of Sharia law over all Somalia, also amputated a foot and a hand each from two young men accused of robbery earlier this month.”
– “They have also banned movies, musical ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer.”
– “‘Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of full veil and now they order us to shake our breasts,’ a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.”
– “Men were not spared the’ moral cleansing’. Any man caught without a beard was been publicly whipped.”