Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Lapidazione per Amina confermata (ultimo appello)

mancano solo pochi giorni....anche se gia avessimo sottoscritto
insistiamo
e facciamola girare con l'altra ragazza si era riuscito a bloccare
l'esecuzione
       APPROVATA LA LAPIDAZIONE DI AMINA
       Diffondete per cortesia
       ALLA FINE HANNO APPROVATO LA LAPIDAZIONE DI AMINA
       Il Tribunale supremo della Nigeria ha ratificato la condanna  a
       morte per
       lapidazione di AMINA; ha solamente posticipato l'esecuzione  di
due
       mesi
       (fissata ora per il 3 giugno 2003) per permetterle di  allattare
il
       suo =
       bambino....che umanità !
       Trascorso questo termine la sotterreranno fino al collo e
       l'ammazzeranno
       a sassate, a meno che una valanga di dissensi non riescaa
       dissuadere le
       Autorità Nigeriane. Amnesty International chiede appoggio
tramite
       la firma
       nelle sue pagine web. Mediante una campagna di firme come  questa
si
       salvò
       in passato un'altra donna, Safiya, nella stessa situazione.
Sembra
       che per
       AMINA abbiano ricevuto finora pochissime firme.
       Contatta  subito:
 
http://www.amnesty.it/primopiano/nigeria/nigeria.php3
       e firma per AMINA
       Diffondete questo messaggio fra le persone che sapete  sensibili
a
       questa
       orribile minaccia di morte.
       Bisogna assolutamente insistere con la raccolta firme.

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Sottoscrivo il tuo appello, e plaudo alla tua umanità, purtroppo non
dimostrata dalla massa di pseudopacifisti.
Ciao
Ad'I

 l'esecuzione
Ovviamente concordo nel denunciare la lapidazione.
La crociata sul caso Lawal, pero', ha fatto piu' male che bene.   
A dirlo non sono io, ma le associazioni femminili Nigeriane (vedi
l'articolo
sotto).
I Nigeriani/neri/Islamici non lapidano le adultere perche' "sono dei
barbari".
Infatti, non lo facevano fino a pochissimi anni fa.   (quando la
dittatura
militare compiva barbarie in scala assai piu' grande).
Il problema e' che e' facile indignarsi per un caso del genere e
lanciare un paio di email, ma e' un
pochino piu' difficile capire la sua origine, e inquadrarlo nella
storia e la societa' Nigeriana.   E se si vuole veramente combattere
questo
genere di cose (piuttosto che usarle per farsi belli), capire e'
assolutamente
indispensabile.
La societa' Nigeriana e' stata completamente distrutta da anni di
dittatura,
a tutto vantaggio dell'identita' etnica/religiosa (cristiani e
musulmani).
L'introduzione della Sharia viene da li'.  Assieme ai conflitti etnici
che
rischiano di trasformare quel paese in una seconda Ruanda.  
La campagna per Amina Lawal ha (intenzionalmente o meno) finito per
inasprire quel conflitto, mentre non ha fatto assolutamente *NULLA*
per aiutare Amina
(e le donne nella sua situazione) a usare i mezzi legali Nigeriani a
proprio vantaggio.   Come sta succedendo, con buona pace di chi manda
quelle email:
Amina, quasi certamente, NON sara' lapidata.    Tuttavia, migliaia di
cristiani
e musulmani rischiano di lasciare la pelle nella buriana che il suo
"scandalo"
ha finito per creare.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/weekinreview/11SENG.html
May 11, 2003
When Do-Gooders Don't Know What They're DoingBy SOMINI SENGUPTA
BIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Every so often, tales of terrible suffering and
injustice in faraway lands come tugging at the conscience of the
world's
privileged. Do something, these stories implicitly demand. Sign a
petition
or, these days, double-click on a mouse to save a life.
 E-mail can instantly mobilize the moral condemnation of millions. So
it
was with an urgent appeal on behalf of Amina Lawal, an illiterate
Nigerian
woman sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of having a child
out of
wedlock.
In recent weeks, an e-mail petition of mysterious origin, carrying the
name and logo, in Spanish, of Amnesty International has been zapped
around
the globe. Recipients were asked to "sign" electronically, then send
it
along to others. Ms. Lawal's execution was imminent, the message
warned;
the Nigerian Supreme Court had already upheld the death sentence.
It soon appeared, however, that the e-mail petition had problems.
Amnesty
International said it had nothing to do with it, though it has been
campaigning vigorously on Ms. Lawal's behalf. And the case hasn't
reached
the Nigerian Supreme Court, much less been ruled on.
 Still, when the petition first came to Deborah Harding, a vice
president
of the Open Society Institute in New York, she saw no reason to
hesitate.
She signed (or tried to - the technology failed her) and passed it on
to
friends and colleagues.
"I felt like this is not one I can sit on," Ms. Harding said. "I sent
it
along."
 From Nottingham, England, to Beirut, Lebanon, to Washington D.C.,
people
were e-mailing their protests - until Ms. Lawal's Nigerian advocates
began
sending their own electronic appeal to cease and desist. In trying to
save
the woman's life, they said, the signers may be putting her - and her
Nigerian supporters - at risk.
 "The information currently circulated is inaccurate, and the
situation in
Nigeria, being volatile, will not be helped by such campaigns," said a
"Dear Friends" electronic letter circulated last week from the
organization Baobab for Women's Human Rights, based in Lagos. "If
there is
an immediate physical danger to Ms. Lawal and others, it is from
vigilante
and political further (over) reaction to international attempts at
pressure."
 This collision of well-intentioned foreigners and imperiled Nigerians
illustrates the hazards of using modern global communications to
enable
people in the developed world to apply pressure in developing nations
over
a range of issues, without some understanding of the situation on the
ground.
 Ms. Lawal, 31, who lives in her parents' home in a village of mud
huts
off a rutted highway in Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria, became an
international cause célèbre last August, when an Islamic court in
Katsina,
her home state, found her guilty of adultery. The court said Ms. Lawal
had
confessed to having a child out of wedlock, and sentenced her to death
by
stoning after her daughter had been weaned.
 Many Nigerians found the ruling horrific, including Olusegun
Obasanjo,
the nation's president and an evangelical Christian. Whatever the
verdict
of the state court, Mr. Obasanjo said, the sentence defied the
Nigerian
Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. That is something
Nigeria's federal judges would have to take into account, if Ms.
Lawal's
case came before them.
 The case is still under appeal in Katsina state court, and is
scheduled
to be heard on June 3. Only after state-level appeals are exhausted
can
the case move on to the Nigerian federal courts. Similar cases are
currently under appeal, and some previous sentences have been
reversed.
Ms. Lawal's lawyers have said they are prepared to take the case up to
the
Nigerian Supreme Court.
 Over the last two years, the Islamic penal code, or Shariah, has been
instituted in roughly a dozen northern states, leading to riots that
by
some estimates have left 10,000 people dead. The most recent, last
December, was set off by a newspaper commentary that speculated
jokingly
about what the prophet Muhammad would have made of the Miss World
beauty
pageant, which was to be held in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. The unrest
gutted the main northern city of Kaduna.
 In other words, the subjects of religion and religious law are
sensitive
in Nigeria, whose population is half Muslim and 40 percent Christian,
with
10 percent subscribing to various indigenous beliefs.
That is why Nigerian women's groups were alarmed by the petition in
support of Ms. Lawal. The claim that she was to be executed June 3
could,
these groups feared, prompt the proponents of Shariah to take matters
into
their own hands, if they believed that Ms. Lawal's supporters might
succeed in overturning the sentence. That many of these supporters
were
foreigners might embolden them even more.
 "I really don't know where to put the blame," said Ndidi Ekekwe, a
program officer with Baobab. "But before anyone signs anything, they
should take the extra step of confirming the facts, because it could
just
do more harm."
 Ms. Ekekwe pointed to a case in 1999 of an unmarried teenage girl in
the
northern state of Zamfara who was found guilty of fornication and
sentenced by a Shariah court to 100 lashes by cane. That case too was
met
with international protest. The governor of Zamfara, an outspoken
proponent of Shariah, responded by having the sentence carried out
before
her lawyers could file an appeal.
 The chief appeals judge in Ms. Lawal's case has already said he isn't
interested in the opinion of outsiders.
"The world has no work to do," the judge, Grand Khadi Aminu Ibrahim
Katsina, said in an interview earlier this year. "That's why they're
focusing their attention on this."

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Torrieri ti prego, non dire scemate che quando vuoi sei in grado di
evitarlo:
Gli islamici lapidavano le donne prima del colonialismo, le lapidano anche
dove non l'hanno subito.
Se laq tua stramba teoria fosse giusta, andati gli austriaci gli italiani
avrebbero dovuto diventare lapidatori.
Ciao
Ad'I