Qur’an 24:2: “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.”
Cruel and unusual punishment, and orders to suppress a natural aversion to human suffering — straight out of the mouth of Allah. These are the consequences.
“Cleric held after Bangladesh teen whipped to death,” from Agence France-Presse, February 2 (thanks to all who sent this in):
BANGLADESHI police arrested four people including a Muslim cleric today after a teenage girl, who was accused of having an extra-marital affair with her cousin, was whipped to death.
Allah said “flog each of them with a hundred stripes.” No word on the man, but they got right to work on the teenage girl. The poor and marginalized consistently bear the brunt of Sharia’s brutality.
Fifteen-year-old Hena Begum died in hospital on Monday after a village court in the southern Bangladesh district of Shariatpur sentenced her to 100 lashes, said local police chief A.K.M Shahidur Rahman.
“We have arrested one of the clerics (who sat on the village court) and three villagers including the wife of the man who Hena Begum had an illicit relationship with,” Mr Rahman told AFP.
“Let not compassion move you,” said the supposed creator of the universe.
According to Mr Rahman, the teenage girl was “beaten mercilessly” by the family of the married man, who was also Hena’s cousin, after the affair was discovered.
“Let not compassion move you,” said the allegedly “compassionate and merciful.”
The teenager was then handed to the village court, which publicly whipped her until she passed out and was taken to hospital, where she died seven days later, he said.
“Let not compassion move you,” says the being whom Muhammad said ordered him to establish this law — Sharia law — over the entire world.
In conservative rural parts of Muslim-majority Bangladesh, rights groups say it is common for women to be publicly whipped for “crimes” such as adultery despite a ban on such religious punishments…..