Date: 3/15/2002
.............Religious rules 'killed 14 girls'
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's religious police were accused of preventing the rescue of 14 girls who died in a stampede to escape a fire because an effort to save them would have meant men entering a girls' school, or girls leaving without a veil.
The "Al-Iqtissadiya" newspaper quoted witnesses as saying that the "mutawa", who enforce a strict Islamic moral code in the kingdom, prevented the girls, aged from 13 to 17, from getting out of the school while civil defence guards were blocked from entering.
Police announced that 14 girls were trampled to death and 50 hurt after the fire in Mecca on Monday, March 11, 2002. (AFP).
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The fate of unfortunte girls & women in ISLAM could not be better illustrated.
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