Evidently, Islamists in Somalia have taken to whipping women who wear a bra, and then force them to give their femininity a robust shake in front of men who are not their husband to prove their Sharia modesty.
To quote Dave Barry, no, I am not making this up. Sign the perpetrators up for a date with the business end of Iowa's hog doot cannon.
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Because, of course, it's not really about modesty. It's about Rules. Rules that if followed, might possibly get you to squeak past the judgment of Allah. Or maybe not, but it's worth a shot. But what we can't have, is people breaking the Rules or other people making it harder for us to follow the Rules. So they must be punished, if any aspect of their existence puts our ability to follow the Rules to the test, even if no real principle is being upheld.
It really has nothing to do with "modesty," and isn't even really intended to, except that modesty is the name of the category under which the laws affecting women are filed. I guess it's convenient and it fits better than "botany" or something.
Hopefully a bit of mockery will help people understand their error--that if they're going around ogling the chest of every woman in town, they're not exactly going to be able to claim any "morality," except the Hugh Hefner kind they decry.
I take your point, but I have to believe that people capable of such wicked nonsense are hardly susceptible to being shamed by mockery. You have to have some sense of humor to understand mockery, and anybody capable of what you describe clearly lacks one.
I've long suspected that C.S. Lewis was right on portraying a lack of sense of humor (rightly understood) as a sign of deep moral degeneracy.
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