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 ؟ Who wears the trousers in Sudan
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مساء الخير ياسودانيز ونلاين :
في صفحات صحيفة الغاردين البريطانية الاكترونيةGuardian.co.uk وجدت هذه المادة المنظمة القوية لكاتبة سودانية -انجليزية تعيش في لندن إسمها " نسرين مالك" guardian.co.uk/profile/nesrinemalik - في الرابط مجموعة مقالته اوحواراتها في الغاردين- ولنسرين طريقة جميلة وواضحة ومفيدة كما لاتخلو من إمتاع في الكتابة والتحليل ، فمثلا في هذا المقال الذي يقوم علي تداعيات قضية الأستاذة الصحفية لُبني حسين والتي تنفذ من خلالهاالكاتبة لمناقشة وإضاءة قانون النظام العام وشرطة امن المجتمع التي تقوم علي تضيق حريات الناس في الخرطوم نسائها بالتحديد ، وبغض النظر عن اذا كان زي لبني اوبنطلونها" ديسنت اوغير دينست" يذهب المقال بوعي ودراية تامة الي تأملات بربرية المسألة، اعجبني تعليق بسيط في احدي الكومينتات حول الموضوع ، الذي نجح في ان يخلق تعليقات جيدة وقوية ، تعليق في صيغة سؤال بسيط وأساسي
When are men in the Islamic world going to stop being afraid of women
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هاكم رابط الارتيكل واتمني اضافة حوار بنفس المستوي او بارقى من ذلك .
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Who wears the trousers in sudan ? by Nesrine Malik-Uk
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Re: ؟ Who wears the trousers in Sudan (Re: Ibrahim Algrefwi)
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When I was 14, my family and I made our way to my father's military club in Khartoum where we had been dining for years. On this occasion, we were denied entry as I was not wearing a headscarf. Upon my father's protestations that this had never happened before he was informed by staff that it was the government's new directive; all women had to wear the hijab in public and no trousers or revealing clothes were permitted
We went back to the car, fashioned an awkward headscarf for me to wear and made our way to dinner as my teenage embarrassment obliterated my appetite. This was life in the new Khartoum after the National Salvation coup in 1989. Music with "irreligious" lyrics was banned from the airwaves, open-air parties using sound systems were prohibited after 11pm (spawning what came to be known as the "overnight", where the performer was smuggled indoors to entertain the cognoscenti until the wee hours of the morning) and a strict curfew was imposed. Officious gatekeepers were positioned outside college campuses to veto female attire, and many's the time they sent a frustrated student in search of a safety pin to reunite the hems of an offending slit skirt
Last week, several women were rounded up at a cafe in Khartoum and flogged for sporting indecent wear, namely trousers, while the remainder await trial as they had refused to plea bargain and accept a punishment of "only" 10 lashes for their sins
Until recently, sporadic raids on private parties in Sudan were not uncommon, particularly on New Year's Eve. If there was alcohol on the premises there would be hell to pay. The manner of punishment was often deliberately humiliating: head shaving, flogging or alerting the families of those appearing to be particularly cocky or affluent to inflict maximum ignominy
Over the past few years however, there has been a discernible relaxation of those draconian public decency laws. In a city allegedly under sharia law, an increasingly affluent populace, an influx of expatriates and an expansion of the United Nations mission have created a sort of bubble of restaurants, banqueting halls and other venues where women mingle with men, smoke
shisha and roam hijab-free and trouser-clad
The group of arrested women, unfortunately for the Sudanese authorities, included Lubna al-Hussein, a rather feisty female journalist and employee of the UN who appears to be spearheading a campaign to garner maximum publicity for her coming trial. The group also reportedly included non-Muslim women from the south of the country (a minority in the north and one that was assured, as part of the north-south peace agreement, that sharia would not apply to its members). The incident has prompted a member of the southern SPLM – now incorporated into the ranks of the government – to demand an investigation into the event, hinting at concerns over the viability of a united Sudan as the 2011 referendum (when the south will vote for or against secession) looms
The difficulties of governing two different communities in one country under two different sets of laws are highlighted by the harsh punishment for brewing of illegal alcohol known as "araqi", more often than not concocted by poor women from the south. On a recent trip back to Khartoum, I watched from my window as a family of southern squatters stood by while their makeshift tents were burned to the ground by public order police as punishment for brewing alcohol illegally
There has been a media blackout on the latest floggings in Khartoum and the word on the street is that the security officer who engineered the cafe raid was a lone ranger provoked by al-Hussein's tone when he urged the women to act or dress more modestly. Her lawyer stated that such raids were to remind people "that Big Brother is watching you", and there is certainly an element of this in the government's rather erratic approach to its implementation of sharia
Since this commitment to divine law is cosmetic and not in earnest, the religious whip is cracked when there may be a perception that the regime is going soft, using Islam as proxy for authoritarianism. However, the whole affair is embarrassing for the government, which finds itself in a Catch-22. To go ahead with the trial of the remaining women would be a step backwards, bad for its new foreign investment-attracting, oil-exporting image (France has already expressed its chagrin), but President Omar al-Bashir et al are not yet secure enough in their positions to accept the ongoing dilution of religious decorum, dismantle public order laws and withdraw their mandate from such outfits as the public order police. I predict a face-saving magnanimous presidential "pardon", such as the one bestowed upon Gillian Gibbons – one that does not discredit the initial charge but halts proceedings or stays punishment
What these women were wearing is hardly the point. They were just an easy target for someone's discomfort with the challenge they posed to convention, traditionalism and the status quo. As with all self-declared Islamic governments, what a woman wears becomes no longer an issue of religious modesty but one of audacity and defiance to a regime's raison d'etre and authority
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Re: ؟ Who wears the trousers in Sudan (Re: Ibrahim Algrefwi)
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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, described himself as "deeply concerned" about the case and said flogging was a violation of international human rights standards
Protesters supported al-Hussein, who could be charged with 40 lashes -AFP
Sudanese police have used tear gas to disperse protesters outside a court in Khartoum, the capital, after the trial of a Sudanese journalist on indecency charges was adjourned for a second time.
Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who was arrested over her allegedly inappropriate trousers, said that the court wanted to clarify whether she, as a former United Nations worker, had legal immunity.
"They want to check with the UN whether I have immunity from prosecution," she told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
"I don't know why they are doing this because I have already resigned from the United Nations. I think they just want to delay the case."
Al-Hussein, who was working as a press officer for the UN when she was arrested, has tried to waive the immunity to be able to challenge the law regulating women's clothing
Ignored wishes
But Jalal al-Sayyid, a defense lawyer, said that there was a disagreement within her legal team, with one lawyer arguing that she had immunity and asking the judge to ignore al-Hussein's wishes.
The judge will defer the issue to the Sudanese foreign ministry before her next court date on September 7, al-Sayyid said.
"If I'm sentenced to be whipped, or to anything else, I will appeal. I will see it through to the end, to the constitutional court if necessary"
Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein
defendant
Police dispersed hundreds of women and activists from opposition parties who demonstrated outside the court house in support of al-Hussein, a correspondent from the news agency AFP reported.
Some of the women were wearing trousers in solidarity with the charged and others carried banners and headbands with the message "No return to the dark ages."
Police arrested al-Hussein along with 12 other women wearing trousers in a Khartoum restaurant in July.
Ten of them accepted a punishment of 10 lashes, but al-Hussein and two other women decided they wanted to go to trial.
"If I'm sentenced to be whipped, or to anything else, I will appeal. I will see it through to the end, to the constitutional court if necessary," al-Hussein said.
"And if the constitutional court says the law is constitutional, I'm ready to be whipped not 40 but 40,000 times
'Indecent act'
Al-Hussein said she wants to get rid of Article 152, which decrees up to 40 lashes for anyone "who commits an indecent act which violates public morality or wears indecent clothing".
She said the article "is both against the constitution and sharia [Islamic law]" and that nothing in the Quran says that women should be flogged over what they wear.
"If some people refer to the sharia to justify flagellating women because of what they wear, then let them show me which Quranic verses or hadith [sayings of the Prophet Mohammed] say so. I haven't found them," she said.
Women's groups have complained that the law gives no clear definition of indecent dress, leaving the decision of whether to arrest a women up to individual police officers.
The UN staff union has urged Sudan not to flog al-Hussein, calling the punishment cruel, inhuman and degrading
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, described himself as "deeply concerned" about the case and said flogging was a violation of international human rights standards.
Sourse:
Aljazeera English
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Ibrahim Algrefwi
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست