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Ankara, Nov. <b>1: A court in Istanbul on Wednesday acquitted a 92-year-old retired archaeologist who was tried for saying that Islamic-style head scarves date back more than 5,000 years — several millennia before the birth of Islam — and were worn by priestesses who initiated young men into sex.</b>

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on the ancient Sumerian civilisation of Mesopotamia, which arose around the third millennium BC, was the latest person to go on trial in Turkey for expressing opinions despite intense European Union pressure on the country to expand freedom of expression. She is one of dozens of writers, journalists and academics who have been prosecuted, including this year’s Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and  novelist Elif Shafak.

Charges of insulting Turkishness against Pamuk were dropped over a technicality earlier this year, and Shafak was acquitted. Unlike Pamuk and Shafak, who were tried under Turkey’s Article 301, which sets out punishment for insulting the Turkish Republic, its officials or “Turkishness”, Ms Cig was accused of insulting people based on their religion. She could have been imprisoned had she been convicted.
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Now we know why muslim women use Veil, and Mullah force them to use. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->