A short while ago we were informed by the media that a woman through no fault of her own was raped, this assault took place in the Middle East and for her pain and humiliation she was arrested and ordered to be given two thousand lashes. Of course this is a mans law, written by men, enforced by men and carried out by men. The person on the receiving end of this man made law is of course a woman. In recent days we see once again the mercy of Islamic law. The law bestowed on the peoples of the Middle East by a forgiving Muslim religion. Once again the recipient of this supposed just law is another woman. Is it only me that gets the impression that the men in charge intend to make sure that woman are kept in their place? The situation was that a seven year old boy wanted to give the class teddy bear his name. The British teacher who had been requested to go to Sudan to teach the children English, thought nothing of this so allowed the teddy bear to be called Mohammed. Then in September a complaint was made to the authorities about this, and it was not until last week that this teacher was hauled before the courts and given fifteen days in prison for the OFFENCE. (The question arises as to why the authorities sat on this for this length of time, could it be they wanted to pick the time to make a point?) She could of course have been given forty lashes or even a fine, but this Sudanese court in its mercy gave her fifteen days jail for allowing a little boy to call a teddy bear Mohamed. After the ruling and the imprisonment people took to the streets and demanded that this ruling be changed and that this teacher should be shot. I cannot envision a society run by woman ever taking this course of action against someone that they had invited to come to their country to help them. No, these are the actions of men; men with feet planted firmly in the twelfth century.

     To move on a little farther, I find it strange that this ever so devout country is only too eager to take the aid that is offered from none Muslim countries. In a three year period the Sudanese government took three hundred and twenty million pounds in aid from the British government. They also use devices invented, manufactured and produced by none Muslim western countries, such as guns, radios, electronics, cars TV’s etc. But guns and bombs especially they love, their people may live in poverty and there may be those that starve, but they can always buy guns. So what is it that they are doing wrong that their god abandons them to poverty and starvation, and makes them take charity from Christian countries, I cannot answer this as I am an ill educated person who never went to university. But I am certain of one thing; and that is if woman with their nurturing nature ran this world we would not see the stupidity that we see from men today. So to sum up I say to all woman, speak out let your voice be heard, don’t accept blindly the decisions that the men of this world bestow upon you. If you change the thinking of just one person, it may be that one person that changes the thinking of millions.