Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Turkey: 92 year old archeologist acquitted despite linking headscarves to ancient Sumerian sexual rights!
BBC: A court in the Turkish city of Istanbul has acquitted a 92-year-old academic of charges of insulting Muslim women and inciting religious hatred.

Archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig was prosecuted over a book in which she linked the wearing of headscarves with ancient Sumerian sexual rites. Turkey court clears archaeologist
Mark Alexander

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