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** sidenote: I think what saddens me most about this, that for this one
woman who may or may not be helped, there are countless others who will fall
by the wayside for the same "crime".
>Please read this carefully and in its entirety.
On Friday, October 25, 2002, the Oprah show covered a story of a
Nigerian woman, Amina Lawal, who has been sentenced to death by stoning
because she had a baby out of wedlock. She has tried to appeal the decision
but has been unsuccessful, thus far. The head of Nigeria disagrees with
these stonings but has so far done nothing, partly because of the fear of
not being re-elected. It should also be noted that the father of the baby
denied fathering the child and, hence, has escaped any form of punishment.
Amina Lawal's stoning will occur as soon as she is finished nursing
her child. She will be buried up to her neck in dirt and townsmen will
throw stones at her head until they kill her, which has been known to take
hours.
I send out a plea to each of you to join me and many others to help
prevent this unthinkable, horrific, and inhumane event from occurring.
All you have to do is visit the Oprah website:
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_2002/tows_past_20021004.jhtml
Just fill out your information on the bottom of the page and send it.
It's as simple as that. You can even go one step further and forward this
e-mail to your friends so they can be part of the mission to save
Amina Lawal.
It's your chance to save one woman's life. We can claim ignorance
when doing nothing to stop vicious atrocities that we know nothing about
from occurring, but there is no justification if we stand by and allow for
these events to take place when we are fully aware of them.
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