i received this email from a friend today, and i thought i would share it with some of you...

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READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT MESSAGE - IT MAY HELP SAVE ONE WOMAN'S
LIFE:

Last Friday, the Oprah show covered a story of a Nigerian woman, Amina
Lawal, who has been sentenced to death by stoning because she had a baby
out of wedlock.

She has tried to appeal the decision but has been unsuccessful, thus
far. The head of Nigeria disagrees with these stonings but has so far
done nothing--partly because of the fear of not being re-elected. I
should also note that the father of the baby denied fathering the child
and, hence, has escaped any form of punishment.

Amina Lawal's stoning will occur as soon as she is finished nursing her
child. She will be buried up to her neck in dirt and townsmen will throw
stones at her head until they kill her--which has been known to take
hours.

I send out a plea to all the women receiving this e-mail and to all the
men raised by women to join me and many others to help prevent this
horrific and inhumane event from occurring.

All you have to do is visit the Amnesty Intl. website:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/oprah/index.html and click on the Amina Lawal
pop up screen and you will see the story and a pre-written letter
addressed to the Nigerian Ambassador.

Just fill out your information on the bottom of the page and send it.
It's as simple as that.

You can even go one step further and forward this e-mail to your friends
so they can be part of the mission to save Amina Lawal.

It's your chance to save one woman's life. We can claim ignorance when
doing nothing to stop vicious atrocities that we know nothing about from
occurring but there is no justification if we standby and allow for
these events to take place when we are fully aware of them.

Thank you very much for reading this.

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again go to...
www.amnestyusa.org/oprah/index.html

and all it takes is a minute to fill out the form...

this is total bullshit, no human deserves this