In Nigeria, No Moral Room on the Bus for Women

[Rose Siding]

KANO, Nigeria -- For women, commuting across this ancient Islamic city has long been as easy as hopping into a minibus or climbing on the back of a motorcycle taxi. Both are cheap and readily available. Even if some female passengers found it unsettling to be so near strange men, who might make lewd comments or press their bodies close, such was the price of efficient transport.

But the days of casual travel are ending for the women of Kano, a bustling trading center of about 500,000 in northern Nigeria. Government officials, determined to halt what they see as the decline of public morality, are banning women from all but a handful of Kano's motorcycle taxis and the front sections of public minibuses.

It is the next logical step, officials said, in their effort to bring the strict Islamic legal code, or sharia , to Kano, which is in one of 12 states in northern Nigeria where Islamic law holds sway to varying degrees. The remaining 24 states, and the federal capital, Abuja, , have a mix of religions and are governed by secular laws.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201218.html

[DELUSIONAL]

1. Can't you just see the fundies in the US trying to

figure out how to put US women in similar places? Their champion for this is bushie's Supreme court appointment -- Roberts.

Will the Nigerian women willingly obey the bastard males dictates?

[saigon68]

2. Religious Dogma RUN AMOK

It's time for a crusade

TO BRING FREEDOM ON THE MARCH

</SARCASM>

[meow2u3]

3. Gender apartheid again

I think women's groups ought to arm women--and disarm the men--in Islamofascist countries.

Just picture this: the morals police harass a woman for showing a strand of hair and -- PLAM!! -- off with his head! :evilgrin:
Multiply this by several million and--pow!--revolution!

[MisterP]

4. well, it would make Carlyle Poppy's gunrunners horny

and the approving Nigerian women will just shoot the other women, like in Iran