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I'm not one to pass chain mails, but I found this to be important and figured I'd reach a lot of people on this board.

Last Friday, 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. I
should also note 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 all the women receiving this e-mail and to all the men raised by
women to join me and many others to help prevent this horrific and inhumane event from occurring

All you have to do is visit the Oprah website
http://www.oprah.com/promo/tows_promo_amina_qx.jhtml
click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen and you will see a
pre-written letter addressed to the Nigerian Ambassador.

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 our 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 standby and allow for these events to take place when
we are fully aware of them.

Thank you very much for reading this.

I didnt read it.

I just clicked in.

:glugglug

didn't read it, didn't click it.

(yet oddly, I felt the urge to reply)

Same thing here. Go figure. Something about muslims I think so I really couldn't care less. Nonetheless, I just *had* to reply to this thread.

A good idea, but it seems like the letter does require a lot of info from the recipient. I'm sure they'll love having all of your info

Im basically saying that spammers have made me paranoid when it comes to companies/sites asking for all of my info

And another one bites to dust...

Thanks anyway Amp and Fletch :)

Well maybe people could use their Business names and addresses?

I used my real info...but I would have used my business info had I thought about it. Besides, it's Oprah...you can trust her!! :winkwink:

I agree. The letter asks for more information than I am willing to provide.

No, I do not trust Oprah. I have seen several of Oprah's BS shows that were rigged to proclaim something to be true, when it was not true.

Well like I said, the mail was sent to me, and I figured it would get more exposure here than if I only sent it to the 30 or so people in my address book. Honestly I have not watched Oprah myself in over 5 years, not even once.

I'm not saying anyone should or shouldn't, obviously that's up to you. It's just a fucked up situation.

I didn't put my e-mail address in there either, just my name and address.

shannon i love you, i clicked, i put all my personal info and my cc #

will you marry me?

Hate to be the bearer of bad news... but does anyone actually think the head of Nigeria gives a flying fuck about a bunch of snobby Americans? Probably not.

Of course I will marry you!!! :winkwink:

Not sure, but it took only a minute to try :)

MAybe they just know a little bit more about religion than you heathens do!

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 - "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son.... bring him unto the elders of his city.... And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you..."

"stubborn and rebellious" here is, she disobeyed God. "son" translates into child, child being the child of God.

-Believe-
http://BornAgain-christians.com

How romantic, an actual GFY marriage

Be sure to send in the pics of the wedding night :winkwink:

This is like my 5th one!!! I'm making the rounds! And not ONE of them has seen my boobs!!! :winkwink:

The government of Nigeria is TOTALLY against this kind of thing. Its the outlying areas where the shirah(sp?) control things in the old ways. She has a couple of years or more so they will get it converted or someone will spirit her away. Hopefully the governemnt there can consolidate thier forces to regain control from those heatherns in the bush.

Wheres the line for that? I too will fill out whatever there is to fill out for a peek.

*keeps her clothes tightly in place* :angel

They are against it, but have done nothing about it so far :(

Imagine being burried up to your neck in dirt and then having people throw stones at your head until you die?!? All for having a baby out of wedlock?

Not to mention, NOTHING is happening to the man...no punishment whatsoever. He committed the 'crime' also!

I clicked it and sent the letter. Do I go to heaven now?

Oprah is the Devil.

Awww you were probably going to heaven before that!!! :thumbsup

sounds like a threat to me.

Shows over

the sentence was overturned becuase Miss World entrants threatened to boycott the event final which is being held in nigeria.

Who said beauty pagents were a waste of time:1orglaugh

Hmm I don't think that's true. If it is, I think it was the last woman who was sentenced to be stoned to death for the same thing, which was overturned just 3 days before this womans sentence came. :eek7

No way!!!! :Graucho

didnt read it just clicked in :winkwink:

wazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuup

:mad:

Wow I made you Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrowl WEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWW

:)

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa...eut/index.html


Dr Phil is more evil than oprah

Maybe that'll teach her not to be such a whore.

Having a baby out of wedlock certainly does not make one a whore.

Dont take everything you read too seriously :winkwink:

lol that was not nice! :321GFY

Btw, the Miss Norway contestant and the "Miss Norway" team has apparently agreed they will pay her flight, legal costs, living costs etc., if she comes to Norway and seeks asylum there.

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I say stone the hoe!

I don't understand people that work themselves into a frenzy over a single human life.

People seem to think the most important issues are the ones that are fed to them by the media.

genocide continues in many countries around the world but the media gives it very little attention.

Don't be fooled by the hype

Sent.

Cheers,
Matt

hmmmm... talk about reality content!

Shannon, i must say i'm surprised at you for falling for these kind of scams... the very word "Nigeria" should echo images of rip-offs and bullshit...

besides, who cares about this woman? apparently 30,000 kids die every day from starvation and nobody gives a fuck about that, so why is she any different?

fuck it, that's my attitude...

*awaits you to hit me up on icq within 10 seconds of reading this*

Now the question should really be, was this her 15th child or 25th child.

Hate to sound like an ass, but 40,000 of em die a day from famine, if she lives she'll probably have 20 kids and half of those will die and the rest will live and have 20 kids and half of them will die and the rest will live and have 20 kids and so on and so forth. The more you save the more the muliply so why bother.

I know flame away i'm sure you'll hate those statements but i'm a realist nothing more, I just feel Africa is so fucked its not worth worrying about. It will always be that way, unless you sterilize 90% of the population. and get them back to normal population numbers.

Look at South Africa, it had the highest quality of living in the entire world in the 70's and now the place is a discusting sesspit filled with black gangs going around GANG RAPING WOMAN & CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 8. its fucking sick. The blacks in Africa will never have peace and will never properity, they will always be in this never ending cycle of (breed, work die).

Flame away :)

Sammy

haha I love where this thread is heading :)

Seriously though, I do understand your point MakeMeGrowl, your intentions are good... It's just that this probably isn't the right board to post it at :winkwink:

Well, it seems the AIDS epidemic is taking care of business.
I firmly believe HIV/AIDS is nature's way of keeping the population #'s down.
The % that has contracted AIDS down there is fucking insane. It's worse than the black plague.

Awww you know we're friends!! I don't force my beliefs on others, as I told you after YOU hit ME up in icq...I just knew it would get more exposure here. :winkwink:

Some wont care, and some will.

Obviously, I can't save the world and all the starving children, but if I could save one, by sending a letter, then I would...espeically if it only took a minute.

Very true!

Well this isn't the right board for 80% of the stuff posted here right? :)

clearly you're not as lazy as the rest of us...