>i read this, think it was on bbc site. afaik most countries in this area have similar make/female rules, the most visible being the segregation and dress codes. i don't agree with any of them, i don't like any laws based on religion.
>there are many old laws that came to light here and i imageine that it is also in effect there. at the moment there is a commission that is trying to tidy up old laws in ireland, some are >700 years old. there is one that states that it is illegal for a jew to wear a suit of armour. there are dozens more but stuck in my mind as its funny for this day and age, but it is still a valid law!

Aye but the jews don't get put to death for trivia.

In England it's illegal to eat mince pies at Xmas, or to leave the parish boundaries. As these are Cromwellian laws I guess they were imposed on Ireland too.

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>>Forgot to mention! Her uncle got 95 lashes - after rape which caused this poor girl's death. It's 1 law for the men anoither for the women in this part of the world, under certain religions.
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>>>it reminds me in a way of the honour killings in turkey and elsewhere, not exactly the same but the results, very unjust execution, all the same. for similar things here women were hidden in convents etc in the 40's, 50's and 60's, really nasty time.
>>>~M
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>>>>Harrowing docu last night.
>>>>In a nurtshell, as I saw it:
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>>>>A 16 YO girl, first arrested for chastity crime for being in a car with her male cousin.
>>>>In jail, apart from 40 lashes and that, jailors sexually abused her.
>>>>Arrested again for another minor "offence" - same stuff as I recall.
>>>>Meanwhile her middle-aged (uncle?) used to take her in the car and sexually abuse and rape her.
>>>>Finally "neighbours" get up a petition to have her arrested for constant lewd behaviour, though none had signed it (suspected later it might have been the chastity police).
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>>>>Whilst being beaten she "confessed" to having had intercourse outside marriage (with her uncle who raped her).
>>>>Case rushed through with indecent haste (with court notes stating she was 22, while other docs proved she was 16) and she was executed.
>>>>Old Manner of stoning considered old-fashioned fashioned so she was hanged.
>>>>But they don't do it with a trap-door and drop - a mobile crane, in a public place, noose on the hook, hoist them up.
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>>>>I was so upset and absolutely disgusted with this regime and Sharia Law,. As far as I'm concerned you can stick it where the monkey put the nut and, if the US did attack Iram, I wouldn't be protesting!