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handofdave wrote:
Honestly, I can't imagine why any westerner would choose to live under such brutally medieval, insane laws.
Money.

EDIT: I was going to say that I think I was a little unfair. Sudan is not a rich country (although there may be education programmes where funding allows for good slaries) and it's entriely possible that this woman went there for altruistic purposes.

However, the woman worked at the Unity High School It's a British school where she taught the children of Sudanese professionals, expatriates and oil workers.

Money may well have been the driving force, particularly after a separation.

All of which is to do with why she might have gone there is the first place and no comment at all on yet another example of religious barbarity.

Vybik Jon wrote:
handofdave wrote:
Honestly, I can't imagine why any westerner would choose to live under such brutally medieval, insane laws.
Money.
Yeah. Though I'm sure there are some idealists out there too, like Shanshee says.

Still, you'd have to be a little bit nuts to brave the possibility of being murdered or beaten (either by radicals or the state itself). Makes me think of the people who went into the American south to help blacks register to vote back in the sixties... they were facing real danger in a very hostile environment.

My hat's off tho. Isolationism is obviously not an option if the Islamic world is going to be cured of its fear of change. Not that we in the west are necessarily the ultimate arbiters of that 'correction'... that's got to be a homegrown movement on their part.