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Context: On the first day of the 48 hour hackathon, all female participants had to leave by 6:30 PM. This is because, under Sharia law, women cannot ha
by laughinghan 10y ago
Context:
On the first day of the 48 hour hackathon, all female participants had to
leave by 6:30 PM. This is because, under Sharia law, women cannot hang out
with men they are not related or married to late into the evening.
(For people like me who glance at the comment thread before reading the article, or who merely skimmed the article.)
- danharaj 10y agoSeeing "Sharia law" referred to as a definite entity is a little strange. It's like someone saying "under common law...". It's cromulent, but only on general principals not many specific statutes. There are several countries that follow Sharia, just like many countries follow civil law or common law. Relevant here because there are countries that follow Sharia that don't enforce such a curfew.
- rgejman 10y agoUpvote for use of the word "cromulent."
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoDoes anyone have a definite idea which school of Sharia jurisprudence Hamas even follows?
- cloudjacker 10y agoThe article mentioned that the ruling government follows some part of Sharia law. And I'm sure the rest would take a lawyer to interpret, just like everywhere else, because the commoner interpretation of "why" is different than the legal or religious interpretation of "why"
- heh 10y agoThat's absolutely disgusting. If I was there, I would have left, and never come back. We talk a lot about women's rights and women in tech, but if we allow ourselves to condone this kind of behavior then we haven't advanced enough towards real inclusiveness (I'm not talking about the micro-aggression tumblr-esqe bullshit here).