You might be flogged for wearing pants in Sudan!

That is why I am glad I am a woman in America.

Pants are worn to keep the insects from biting legs as they do when someone wears a skirt or long dress. What's wrong with wearing long pants underneath a long dress--just to prevent insects from biting and dust from covering the legs in a desert climate that's dusty, hot, and dry?

Religion should have nothing to do with normal, modest clothing that is worn as protection against the weather. The basic issue is people should stop trying to control the type of clothing worn by females as long as the clothing covers the body.

Pants are more comfortable in that climate. With the type of heat in the Sudan, for comfort reasons, wearing white pants would be more comfortable than trying to walk in a hobble skirt and ankles bare to the bug bites. Why are men afraid of women in pants? If the pants are too revealing, then wear a long or loose skirt over the pants. It's about comfort.

ladym33 is happy as she is a woman in AMERICA.What the rest of your same sex who are not in America will do, dear friend? So great and so nice and so sacrificing and so industrious those women are. Yes, them you will find in every region of the globe.AnneHart, you have considered the aspect of utility, that is, how comfortable this dress is. But question is with the attitude of the Sudanese government and the concerned religion which hold little regard for the women. We should not approve this. We should simply state that we do not approve this state of order and that a woman must no more be treated with such medieval ideas, be it in Sudan or in any other region of the globe.PLEASE!

Sudan is a joke. Let her wear pants. The country allows genocide, religious discrimination, and male chauvinism to permeate throughout the country, but they have to make sure that women do not wear pants.

To even contemplate such a punishment for this crime is barbaric. To label it a crime is tyrannic. It is high time that Muslim men crawled out of the dark ages.

Kofot, barbaric. Agreed. But we should walk a few steps to cause an end to these dark events. Please, raise your voice with patience and let us declare firmly and let all of us declare: we do not approve such barbaric event at all.

flogged for wearing pants? is that even in our religion? they made it up!which makes it really wrong! they don't even understand Islam do they?

Unbelievable? UNBELIEVABLE AND TRUE. And sadly it is in the garb of religion. But the little achievement the international voice of resistance(of which Allvoice is a part)have secured has been noticed as the judge released the determined journalist without the 'flogging' an act which I do not know any words to condemn.Yes, she has challenged the writ and has been jailed and released. I congratulate her from the core of my heart.

This really was a troubling story. I thought Sudan was more liberal than that. More importantly, my sister just moved there after getting married.