parul
November 12th, 2002, 12:32 PM
Dear Friends,
Please read the article at the end of this email and/or visit the websites:
http://www.oprah.com/promo/tows_promo_amina_qx.jhtml
http://www.mertonai.org/amina/
One of the Miss World contestents has withdrwan from the contest because of the death sentence against two Nigerian Women, one of them being Amina.
Please respond at the earliest,
Recently, 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 reelected. 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 web site: http://www.oprah.com/promo/tows_promo_amina_qx.jhtml Click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen and you will see a prewritten 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 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 standby and allow for these events to take place when we are fully aware of them. Please do to and also have a look: http://www.mertonai.org/amina/
Please read the article at the end of this email and/or visit the websites:
http://www.oprah.com/promo/tows_promo_amina_qx.jhtml
http://www.mertonai.org/amina/
One of the Miss World contestents has withdrwan from the contest because of the death sentence against two Nigerian Women, one of them being Amina.
Please respond at the earliest,
Recently, 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 reelected. 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 web site: http://www.oprah.com/promo/tows_promo_amina_qx.jhtml Click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen and you will see a prewritten 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 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 standby and allow for these events to take place when we are fully aware of them. Please do to and also have a look: http://www.mertonai.org/amina/