News of the Sad - its not just in Afghanistan

[Dillinger]

This comes from the most recent installment of "News of the Weird" by Chuck Shepard... however, to me, this is more sad than anything:

"In March, some of the normally tightly restrained local press in Saudi Arabia reported that 15 schoolgirls in Mecca died in a fire, with the fatalities due at least in part to their being denied permission to flee the burning building without their scarves and abaya robes. Witnesses said police from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice beat three girls until they retreated back into the smoke-filled building. Escape was further hindered because girls are always locked in at the school, in order to keep males out."

FUCK!

 

[Bindii]

This comes from the most recent installment of "News of the Weird" by Chuck Shepard... however, to me, this is more sad than anything:

"In March, some of the normally tightly restrained local press in Saudi Arabia reported that 15 schoolgirls in Mecca died in a fire, with the fatalities due at least in part to their being denied permission to flee the burning building without their scarves and abaya robes. Witnesses said police from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice beat three girls until they retreated back into the smoke-filled building. Escape was further hindered because girls are always locked in at the school, in order to keep males out."

FUCK!

I guess that if I told you that this thread was posted by Ishmael a week ago would really piss you off?



So I'll just keep my big mouth shut.

 

[Texan]

hey Dill.... that story was actually reported on FOX News... it also made it as a topic on Crossfire.

Yep...... the Saudis are a "progressive" Islamic nation.....

 

[Dillinger]

No... sorry - my apologies... I didn't know that - there are so many threads these days its difficult to keep up...

 

[Bindii]

No... sorry - my apologies... I didn't know that - there are so many threads these days its difficult to keep up...

Don't be sorry, I"m sure that your not the only one that didn't see the original thread, so you'll still get some response. You'd have to be on the boards 24-7 to keep up here!

 

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