ryanpatricksmom
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I just recieve this e-mail. It really only takes a few seconds.
Thanks,
Kelli
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
click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen or search using Amina's name 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 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 these events to take place when we are fully aware of them.
Thank you very much for reading this....
Thanks,
Kelli
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
click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen or search using Amina's name 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 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 these events to take place when we are fully aware of them.
Thank you very much for reading this....
