NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Victoria’s Secret “Violates” Sharia?

Victoria’s Secret - a lingerie company that owes its success to artfully constructed bras that give small-breasted women the illusion of having full, firm breasts and cleavage - should stay out of the Somali market. Apparently, Somali women must go braless to conform to Sharia law.   

 

The Daily Mail (London) reports that Islamofascist insurgents Al Shabaab – the same outfit that’s been recruiting Somalis in the U.S. to become jihadis (ninth item) – have taken to “publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are 'deceptive'”:

 

The insurgent group has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.

 

The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.

 

If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said. …

 

'Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of full veil and now they order us to shake our breasts,' a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.

 

'They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.' …

 

One man was jailed after trying to intervene to prevent his sister from being similarly humiliated and beaten.  

 

[Hat Tip: The Heel, an Ivy-educated attorney with a prestigious New York firm, and occasional contributor to this blog.]

Posted by The Stiletto at October 26, 2009
Categories: Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer
 

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