It was Ruf who showed me the pictures in the Sunday Times of Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, a 48 year old man being stoned to death under Sharia law by an Islamic insurgent group in Afgoye, Somalia. His unmarried female accomplice was allowed to live – after being violently flogged.
There was just something so barbaric about those masked sadistic hoodlums venting their spleen in the name of justice. Against a man who had been buried up to his shoulders in the ground so that he could not use his arms to protect himself. Leaving his head and neck completely vulnerable to their missiles.
A week or so later, I heard about a 13 year old girl who was said to have been raped by three men but, when her family tried to report the matter, the girl was charged with adultery and also stoned to death in a similar manner by a group of over 50 men before a large crowd.
Sometimes man’s inhumanity to other humans leaves me without words.
Wow.
I wish I had something more articulate to say but I don’t. All I can keep thinking is, wow. I hadn’t seen this yet but it’s things like this that make me loathe to keep up with the news. I don’t see how they justify cheating as worthy of death, for one and not another. I don’t think death for adultery is a good thing anyway. Not to mention for the young girl who was raped, that’s even more ridiculous. This kind of stuff perplexes me and even makes me sad at times.
Barbaric and horrific~!
Religion. Ain’t it just fucking bloody grand.
Absolutely shocking! I can’t understand how these things can still happen this day and age!
true believers.
Isn’t it odd how people get their feathers up about sharia laws when someone gets stoned to death (in Iran, they use it for halftime entertainment in soccer games)…
Or like when the Burmese government prosecutors gave that lady 18 additional months because her boyfriend swam the channel to see her?
And yet, the US and England both adhere to Harry J Anslinger laws….
an example would be Kansas…- -Possession of ANY amount of marijuana for personal use is punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500. For a second conviction the penalty increases to 10 – 42 months in jail and a fine of up to $100,000.
Anslinger laws are also adhered to in parts of the middle east where death, or life in prison are the punishment.
But…I rarely hear any uproar about these infractions on human rights.
Why do you suppose that is?
The scary thing is these people walk among us.
Hmmm, I have to say, Boneman, that I think the two examples are a little different. I do disagree with the cannabis laws and think that people should be allowed to have it for personal use – particularly when they have a medical condition that is eased by using it. However, the authorities are not chopping off limbs or executing people as a punishment for possessing it