islamists: topless girl needs stoning

 A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who
posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and stoned
to death before she starts “an epidemic.”

Salafi preacher Alami Adel, who heads the Commission for the
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, says: “According to God’s
law, she deserves 80 to 100 lashes, but what she committed is worth much
more than that.

She deserves to be stoned to death and she must be quarantined because what she did is an epidemic.
She is like someone suffering from a serious and contagious illness and she must be secluded and treated.”
The
young Amina, who is part of a feminist movement and group called FEMEN
can be seen smoking a cigarette topless with Arabic words written across
her chest in black that reads in English “My body belongs to me.”

FEMEN
is a Ukrainian based feminist group that gathers women together in
Europe in topless protests in support of women’s rights.

Amina has
been delivered by her parents to a psychiatric hospital in Tunis,
according to reports received by FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko in Paris
and reported by the U.S. based magazine the Atlantic.
Tunisian
media said that if Amina committed the offence in Tunisia, she could be
punished by up to two years in prison and be given a fine between $60
and $600.

A petition and an international day of action on April 4
to highlight the threats against Amina have been organized by
activists. More than 10,000 people have signed the petition that called
for those who threatened Amina’s life to be prosecuted.

On
Thursday reports FEMEN’s Facebook account was hacked emerged. The page
had reportedly been infiltrated with videos and pictures on the site
being replaced by verses from the Koran.
“Thanks to God we have
hacked this immoral page and the best is yet to come,” read one message
signed by “al-Angour,” an apparent hacker.

FEMEN has released a
statement condemning “barbarian threats of the Islamists about the
necessity of reprisals against the Tunisian activist Amina.”

“We are afraid for her life and we call on women to fight for their freedom against religious atrocities” it added.
“Use your body as a poster for the slogans of freedom. Bare breasts against Islamism.”
Last
month, FEMEN brought together Iranian women in Sweden, who took to the
streets of Stockholm demonstrating against the Hijab (Islamic
headscarf).