From stephenk@u.washington.edu Fri Nov 1 10:28:54 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id gA1ISkFD151554 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:28:47 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Nov 01 10:28:44 2002 -0800 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.19]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA1ISeg4026887 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:28:40 -0800 Received: from mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.17]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id gA1ISdxL026824 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:28:39 -0800 Received: FROM hymn14.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Nov 01 10:28:38 2002 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn14.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id gA1IScCb013710; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:28:38 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:28:38 -0800 (PST) From: "Stephen J. Kim" To: bproject@u.washington.edu, , , , , , , , , Subject: Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Friends. Please take a moment to read this: 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, thusfar. The head of Nigeria disagrees with these stoning 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: www.oprah.com click on the Amina Lawal pop up screen (on right - second from the top) 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 standby and allow for these events to take place when we are fully aware of them. Thank you very much for reading this....now the ball is in your court. ________________________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free!  Try MSN. Click Here .