A 19 year-old Tunisian activist by the name of Amina has reportedly been threatened with stoning to death for posting topless photos of herself on the website of women’s rights organization Femen. One of the photos shows the young woman smoking a cigarette with the Arabic words for "my body is my own and not the source of anyone’s honor" scrawled across her chest. In another (modified image below), she holds her middle fingers up to the camera, "fuck your morals" written in large block print on her torso. The Atlantic reports that the Salfi Islamic preacher who leads Tunisia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has called for Amina to be "stoned to death," and warns that her ideas "could be contagious...
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