People on Facebook Can Sign This Petition to Help Save The Life of Protester Amina in Tunisia.

Last edited Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Sometimes movements on FB actually work.

http://www.causes.com/actions/1741900-dont-let-amina-be-condemned-to-dead-for-being-the-owner-of-her-own-body?recruiter_id=89898758


"...19-year-old Tunisian activist, known only as Amina, her hair cropped close and her lips cherry red. She is smoking a cigarette and reading a book, frowning slightly, her eyes directed towards the page. Across her bare breasts, in Arabic, are these words: “My body belongs to me and is not the source of anyone’s honour.” It looks like art. In a second image, she defiantly flips off the camera with both hands and has the words “Fuck your morals” scrawled in black across her chest. There’s only one word to describe how Amina looks and it’s “badass”.

Both pictures were posted on the Facebook page of the Tunisian branch of the feminist protest group Femen, shortly before it was hacked and emblazoned with writings from the Quran. That was not the strongest reaction: the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Salafi cleric Almi Adel, somewhat predictably called for Amina to be stoned to death"


http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/society/2013/03/if-women-have-get-their-tits-out-make-point-so-be-it