In accord with Qur’an 5:38: “As to the thief, male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power.”
Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of Woman Drivers: “Uganda: Pilgrim Arrested in Mecca,” by Madinah Tebajjukira for New Vision of Kampala via AllAfrica.com (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair):
A UGANDAN pilgrim to Mecca is being detained in Saudi Arabia for alleged theft, the Uganda Hajj Mission has revealed. Under the Islamic law, or Sharia, he faces amputation of the left hand.
Hajji Suudi Nsereko was arrested on December 19 during the climax of the Hajj rites, according to the mission’s chairman, Sheikh Ibrahim Kirya.
The Uganda Hajj Mission is one of the organisations that facilitate Muslims to travel to Mecca for the pilgrimage.
Nsereko was among over 1,000 Ugandans who left for Mecca last month to perform the annual pilgrimage. Kirya said it took them two days to discover that Nsereko was missing.
“We managed to trace him after four days at Mecca police station and we helped him record a statement because he could neither speak English nor Arabic.”