Sharia alert from AP, with thanks to Nicolei:
Authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province will begin caning convicted gamblers next week, as part of efforts to broaden the implementation of Islamic law in the region, a government official said yesterday.The mayor of the east Aceh town of Bireuen Mustofa Gelanggang said authorities next Friday will cane at least 20 convicted gamblers with seven strokes of a 2m rattan stick following prayers at a local mosque. The date was set after Acting Aceh Governor Azwar Abubakar signed a law approving the punishment Friday.
The law comes two years after the conservative province became the first in Indonesia to open an Islamic court, which is empowered to hand down punishments according to the Koran.
Abubakar is expected to sign additional legislation in the coming weeks that expands the use of caning to punish adultery and other crimes, Gelanggang said.
To think that Australia gave this corrupt nation a BILLION dollars in aid after the Tsunami,thank goodness I didn't give a cent.
Twenty years for Corby(4.1 kilos of dope) and 2 1/2 for a mass murderer(over 200 people died in the Bali bombings), work that one out.
Mind you I did warn my friends that things like this would happen but they didn't believe me.
I'd like to see them try that on Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson.
DT, you can't buy Muslim alliances. They see it as a smart move to take the infidel's money and wait for another day to destroy them. While the dhimmis in our govt capitals give away our money to the Muslims, the Muslims just laugh at the stupid dhimmis. The West is such easy pickings. You can rob and kill Westerners and the money keeps flowing. Look at our friends in the Muslim world - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia. With friends like these, who needs enemies.
Dear Mr whatsyerfez...you are one screwed up dude. You suppose to tell me that what I saw was not really what I saw, it was something else. You did not see what I saw, to make that kind of screwed up evaluation. I am in the better position to evaluate what I saw than you are.
Maybe Hitler and Jews never really existed and the whole WW2 bit was a hollywood production number, and nobody really got killed. Hitlers speeches in front of thousand of screaming nazi's, was done on a hollywood sound stage. His appearance at the 1936 Olympics was staged and there is no such athelete as Jesse Owens. That was an actor. And did you know, that the whole country of Israel is located on the back lot of MGM studios, no kidding. I could go on and on about hollywood productions...
Jeez you are a fool...not only that, your throwing rocks at the moon...if it were not that your psychosis is pitiful, I would consider you hair-lair-e-us...
BigSleeperCell-
Before your cut 'n paste is erased, let me add:
"A waste is a terrible thing to mind."
Goodbye, chum. (In the sense used by deep sea fishermen, of course.)
I hope Indonesia doesn't get hit by another tsunami any time soon, the donations from Australia will be a bit scarce, I think.
Howard was wrong to give billions of dollars of Australian taxpayers money to Indonesia. These people have always been our enemies and always will be.
Although I realise that Australia needs to keep giving handouts for security reasons, I begrudge every cent that goes to this country.
I believe the title of the original post, i.e. "`Gamblers' to get seven lashes with a cane in Indonesia" is misleading, though technically correct.
It is technically correct because this law has been introduced in Aceh, which is a province of Indonesia.
It is misleading because to casual observer it would appear that this was now the case in all of Indonesia rather than one single province of that country. Moreover, a casual observer might also be unaware that militantly Islamist Aceh's relations with the Indonesian central government have been strained, due to Aceh's bid for independence, i.e. it is not a typical province of Indonesia.