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While Malaysia is grappling with the issue of caning Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (which will be a historic first caning of a woman if carried out), Saudi Arabia has been meting out caning sentences on women who violate its strict Sharia law. Recently 2 cases caught my attention, and there are certainly plenty of lashes involved. Saudi [...] When we think of Somalia and the enforcement of Sharia law punishments on adultery and theft, and we mentally see adulterers being stoned to death and thieves having their limbs cut off. Now there is another case of death by stoning reported in Somalia. The al–Shabaab rebel group has done it again! It has condemned another woman in Somalia to death by stoning for committing adultery. Judge Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman of the al-Shabaab group said that the 20-year old Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a divorcee, was stoned to death before 200 people after admitting to having an affair with an unmarried 29-year [...] A couple in Somalia chose the wrong place to commit the act of adultery. They did it in territory under the control of the al-Shabaab group, and worse, they left evidence of their act – the woman became pregnant. Now they are paying for it with their lives. On September 14, the outgoing Aceh Legislative Council passed a set of bylaws (Qanun Jinayat) that effectively replaces certain sections of the Criminal Code with Sharia laws for Muslims. Among other things, these bylaws call for death by stoning for those caught in adultery. The Aceh governor has refused to sign off on these bylaws, [...] Aceh has been in the news lately because of Miss Indonesia 2009 (Putri Indonesia) Qory Sandioriva. The controversy over Qory Sandioriva was her decision not to wear a Muslim headscarf for the Miss Indonesia 2009 (Putri Indonesia) contest because “hair is beauty, and I am proud of beauty.” Indonesia is again in the news. This time it involves Aceh, best known as the worst hit area during the 2004 tsunami that hit Indonesia. In a couple more weeks, the Aceh Party (made up of former separatist fighters from the Free Aceh Movement) will take power in the new provincial assembly. |
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