Had This Been In An Islamic Country, This News Would Have Been Right On The Top In Ab.

[keyplus90]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/24/unmarried-women-mobile-ban

[boxtops]

see, it IS inflammatory after all.

[naomi24]

Poor Islam - always gets such a bad press. Can't think why.

[anotheoldgit]

/// (AOG, what did you mean to convey by your phrase 'usual
suspects' ?) ///

I would have thought that would have been obvious.

[humbersloop]

boxy, I'd say expedient rather than inflammatory,

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/22/this-isnt-feminism-its-islamophobia

couldn't happen here, could it?

http://everydaysexism.com/

[boxtops]

my mind boggles, sloopy....

[Baldric]

Now now, come on girls,
haven't you got some housework to do?

;-)

[boxtops]

>>> poke in the eye for Bapdick..... :-)

[Baldric]

OUCH!!!!!

[boxtops]

sorry Balders, did I flick you in the eye with my duster? :-)

[jomifl]

I must be missing something, why would this be newsworthy in an islamic country? Surely beheadings, hand chopping, stoning to death and legalised rape are the norm so this wouldn't get onto the back page.

[Baldric]

Steady on boxy, you could have someone's eye out with that!

[keyplus90]

In my mind it had nothing to do with it being old new as the news that I read is only 2 days old and it is right at the top in this link. But I posted it from "Guardian" as I believe that was more reputable source ( I did not look at the date). However in this same link this news seems to have been repeated in last few years.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=indian+village+bans+mobile+phone&;ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=hoK9UoKqDIOAhAfZ3oHQAg

[keyplus90]

anotheoldgit – This is what you said at 11:13,

////Are the happenings in a small Indian village 'big News' anyway?////

Then all of a sudden at 11:18 you realized this and it became “big News” for you as the “Times of India” changed your minds too.

/// The ban has been put in place by Sunderbari council which is in a Muslim-dominated area in the north east of India. ///

I wonder what would be your response to a same kind of news coming from a village so remote in Pakistan where you may have to walk for over a day to get there?

[Baldric]

If they were that remote ^^^ would they have a Mobile 'phone signal?

[FredPuli43]

AOG, "the usual suspects" with "yet again" is obvious in its meaning to me if you mean people in villages in Northern India but I suspect you don't. So what did you mean? To say that Muslims are the people who act in the way described? And for what purpose would you say that, if so?

[tamborine]

how do they afford them?

[jomifl]

Tambo, the phones that most people have replaced wth a 'smart' phones at great expense, mostly still work and often end up in third world countries.

[Brenden]

Would not be in Pakistan walk or no walk - I also could not care less - they believe in this barbaric religion - so be it.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, had you had denounced this action, it would have been rather refreshing – but instead you’re simply saying ‘If Islam had done it, it would have been condemned’. No thought for unjustified ruling itself - or for the inequality and female subjugation it endorses.

[whiskeryron]

///
The Guardian, Wednesday 24 November 2010 11.22 GMT///

I can only presume that it takes 3 years to get a message from India.

WR.