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23 Oct 2006 09:44:44 PM |
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Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20612940-29677,00.html
Tried for linking headscarf to sex
October 20, 2006
ISTANBUL: An eminent 92-year-old Turkish archeologist is to go on trial
for inciting religious hatred because she angered Islamist circles with
a scientific paper saying the use of headscarves by women dated back to
pre-Islamic sexual rites.
Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, who devoted her career to studying the Sumerians,
the first known urban civilisation (dating from the 4th millennium BC),
was to appear in court on November 1 in Istanbul, her editor, Ismet
Ogutucu, said.
In a book published last year, Cig says the headscarf - a controversial
issue in Turkey - was first worn by Sumerian priestesses initiating
young people into sex, but without prostituting themselves.
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
Cig, a staunch defender of mainly Muslim Turkey's strictly secular
political system, recently wrote to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan's wife, Emine, calling on her to discard her Islamic headscarf
and set an example to young people.
"She can wear whatever she likes at home, but as the wife of the Prime
Minister, she cannot wear a cross or the headscarf," Cig said in an
interview this week in the popular daily Vatan.
The Islamic-style headscarf is viewed by secular Turks as a symbol of
political Islam and is banned by law in public offices and universities.
The issue has polarised Turkish society, particularly since Mr Erdogan's
Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party swept to power in 2002
with an end to the headscarf ban high on its list of electoral promises
- one it has so far been unable to keep.
AFP
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
24 Oct 2006 02:27:12 PM |
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
27 Oct 2006 01:31:02 PM |
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:12 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
That would be interesting.
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
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be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
27 Oct 2006 03:17:21 PM |
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:31:02 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:12 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
That would be interesting.
If you like riots, maybe.
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"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit
priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies
about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and
have always been an atheist."
- Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945,
responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein
to convert from atheism. Article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic
magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
28 Oct 2006 11:14:03 AM |
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:17:21 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:31:02 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:12 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
That would be interesting.
If you like riots, maybe.
/wide-eyed innocence
But all are equal under the law.........
[/cue animal farm]
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
28 Oct 2006 12:49:11 PM |
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:14:03 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:17:21 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:31:02 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:12 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
That would be interesting.
If you like riots, maybe.
/wide-eyed innocence
But all are equal under the law.........
[/cue animal farm]
As long as we're *the right kind of* Moslem.
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rukbat at optonline dot net
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Tried for linking headscarf to sex |
30 Oct 2006 12:37:01 PM |
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:49:11 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:14:03 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:17:21 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:31:02 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:12 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote
in alt.atheism
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:44 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a
complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and
her publisher with "inciting hatred based on religious differences". If
convicted, the two face up to three years in jail.
I wonder what would happen if someone filed a complaint for "inciting
hatred based on " *Christian* "religious differences".
That would be interesting.
If you like riots, maybe.
/wide-eyed innocence
But all are equal under the law.........
[/cue animal farm]
As long as we're *the right kind of* Moslem.
Like the ever shifting 'right kind of xtian' in the UK.
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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