The Sharia's evidence laws codify unjust and unequal treatment for men and women in such cases. From Reuters, with thanks to JE:
Bauchi, Nigeria: Islamic courts in northern Nigeria have sentenced two women to death by stoning for having sex out of wedlock, but two men whom they said they slept with were acquitted for lack of evidence.Both sentences have to be confirmed by the Bauchi state governor before being carried out, and are open to appeal.
Nobody has been lawfully stoned to death in Nigeria since 12 northern states introduced sharia law in 2000, because all such sentences have been overturned on appeal.
Hajara Ibrahim, 29, was sentenced on October 5 by a sharia court in the Tafawa Balewa area of the state, having confessed to having had sex with 35-year-old Dauda Sani and becoming pregnant.
The court said it had handed Ibrahim to a guardian "until she delivers the baby before the sentence will be executed by stoning her to death according to the provisions of the sharia penal code". Of Sani, "there is no evidence to link him with the allegation" and consequently the court had acquitted him.
The second woman, 26-year-old Daso Adamu, was handed the same sentence on September 15 by a sharia court in Ningi area of Bauchi state. Adamu admitted having had sex with a 35-year-old man 12 times, and is now in Ningi prison.
"there is no evidence to link him with the allegation" and consequently the court had acquitted him."
I guess to suggest DNA testing, a paternity test would be too much for these dinosaurs?
But that would take the fun out of stoning this poor woman -- (what these SOB's do for entertainment when living under sharia, when not attending amputations and beheadings.)
Bauchi, Nigeria: Islamic courts in northern Nigeria have sentenced two women to death by stoning for having sex out of wedlock, but two men whom they said they slept with were acquitted for lack of evidence.
This just proves there stupid ideology... Everyday a story comes along and I think wow can Moslems get any dumber?? Yes they can....
Islam is so dumb it leaves me at a loss of words.....
We really went to Iraq looking not for WMD’s but intelligent life, we are still looking!
I found a really old dictionary and I looked up the word stupid, it used to be spelled a little different the correct spelling is = Moslem
Stupid is as stupid does !!
No Islam, Know Peace
So quick to deal in Death and Judgement...
Well, go to any womens' ("feminist") studies department in American (or European) universities and they'll find excuses for that; they'll call you Eurocentric imperialist if you dare to express the word "barbaric" about this kind of "punishment"; and they'll prove in a minute that actually, the Western repressive ideals of femininity, capitalism, and of course, worst of all, the Catholic church, are much worse enemies of women than the Islamists who stone and hang women for having sex (or for not having it, with the right guy picked by the family...).
More examples of Islamic gender culture: a Kurdish man had his "disobedient" Norwegian wife murdered in front of their three little daughters just about a month after getting his Norwegian citizenship (under false identity, as it turns out later):
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article886042.ece
Can anyone imagine the reactions of the Western Left to a White Christian-based religion that did all the things that muslims are doing around the world ? It shows the Left's sel-hating hypocrisy then when it comes to islam it's always "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil".
Scandie: because remember after all, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, Jews were stoning rebellious women to death, so doesn't that make christianity and Judaism equally as bad as Islam?
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the reading of each article the a feeling of the surreal mounts, boggling the mind. There is no logic, rhyme or reason. Intellectually we can link the behaviors to the Koran, ahadiths, and the Sira to comprehend. We have brought a monster to reside among us that will change our society for the worse if no action is taken.
Where are the 'feminists'? Shouldnt they be out there in their tens of thousands protesting?
Amazing, isn't it. Two women can be convicted of having sex outside of marriage (and presumably not with each other), but they can't find enough evidence to convict the men they had sex with.
The marvels of Sharia law.