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Indonesia: Aceh government approves new law saying every citizen, Muslim and non-Muslim, must obey Sharia

Feb 7, 2014 12:40 pm By Robert Spencer

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Women in Aceh must always wear headscarves when out in public — which must thrill Robert George and Michael Potemra. Islamic spokesmen in the West constantly insist that Sharia applies only to Muslims, and so non-Muslims need not be concerned about it. The government of Aceh seems to have missed that memo.

“Indonesia: Aceh Province Enforces Sharia for non-Muslims,” by Ludovica Iaccino for the International Business Times, February 7 (thanks to Twostellas):

The government of Indonesia’s Aceh province has approved a new law obliging every citizen to follow the sharia Islamic legal code regardless of their religion.

Councillor Abdulah Saleh told the Jakarta Post that the new behaviour law, or qanun jinayat, “does indeed oblige everyone in Aceh to follow sharia without exception.”

Saleh said that the qanun stipulated that all those found to have violated sharia would be tried under Islamic law regardless of their religion.

Non-Muslim violators of Indonesia’s national ciminal code (KUHP) will be given the option to choose between a sharia court or a regular court – but both courts will adhere to islamic legislation.

“If the violation committed by a non-Muslim is not regulated in the KUHP then the violator will automatically be tried in a sharia court, without exception” Saleh continued.

Violations of sharia that are not mentioned in the KUHP include drinking liquor, khalwat (affectionate contact between an unmarried couple), not wearing a headscarf or wearing tight pants for women.

Anyone found drinking alcohol or breaching the codes on moral behaviour, whether residents or visitors to Aceh, could face between six and nine lashes of the cane. Three violations of the dress code could lead to nine lashes.

The qanun jinayat was approved by the legislative council on 13 December and signed by Governor Zaini Abdullah. It was a revision of the controversial 2009 Qanun Jinayat that introduced the punishment of stoning to death.

According to Saleh, the application of sharia is based on the principle of justice for all, as Muslims would feel they were being treated unfairly if non-Muslim violators were not tried under the same law for the same violations.

“It would be unfair if Muslims were punished while non-Muslims were not, just because sharia violations are not stipulated in the Criminal Code,” Saleh said.

Key articles in the Qanun Jinayat

The sharia authorities will have the power to arrest suspected violators, and confiscate and conduct raids on their property, based on preliminary evidence.

Non-Muslim or military suspects will be tried in a sharia court unless the violation is covered by the Criminal Code (KUHP) or by the Military Code respectively.

Even if the sharia court acquits a defendant, he or she will be required to undergo rehabilitation.

Only one appeal may be filed with the sharia court.

Prison terms are for up to a maximum of 40 months.

Caning up to a maximum to 40 lashes.

Fines up to a maximum of 800 grams of gold.

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  1. john spielman says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    and to think I was stupid enough to send money to these people when the tsunami hit and destroyed Aceh province!

    • twostellas@yahoo.com says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 3:02 pm

      Me too. And with that money they rebuilt and installed sharia. Smh. And thanked Allah while cursing us.

    • cochise says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 7:47 am

      i feel the same. places and people like this suck as much of the life out of the united states and infidels and then pull this kind of stunt. we failed miserably by helping them after the tsunami. they should have been left to fend for themselves with the help of their imaginary god, allah

  2. boakai ngombu says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    this is an example of the social justice associates of POTUS prefer. let all nags of NOW pay attention; let all the academics who prefer the mystical side of Islam take note.

    there isn’t a world leader alive with gonads enough to stop such utter negation of what Almighty God desires for women and men

    the Allah god (unknowable; best of all deceivers) has limitless blood lust. its intentions are to invoke fear and bring destruction. it does not bless the land, even with the wonderful ones who abide by it’s will.

    • john spielman says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 1:46 pm

      amen brother.

  3. duh_swami says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    NUTS, completely NUTS…How far are they going to push that? Are kuffar going to pray five times a day, or kill a few apostates and blasphemers, or wipe their butts with pebbles? There are so many sharia requirements listed in ‘Reliance of the Traveler’, that not even a hyper pious Mahoundian can do them all. That makes everyone subjected to this insanity already guilty including the idiots who wrote the law…

  4. eddy jacobsen says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    SCUM !!!

  5. Champ says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    This is insane! …and mohammedans bring nothing but HELL on earth; now indonesia is just another islamic hellhole.

    • Champ says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 3:27 pm

      islam + sharia = slavery

      “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” — Galatians 5:1

  6. Peter says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    THIS WILL SOON HAPPEN IN WESTERN COUNTRIES IF WE DO NOT ERADICATE ISLAM SOON.

    • Thoughtwrite says

      Feb 7, 2014 at 11:02 pm

      Aceh’s economy will tank soon. they rely on tourism…..no? I would venture to say that no westerner in their right mind will go to Aceh for a vacation.. those caliber and class of people that usually go there at any rate.

  7. SDLakeshore says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    Qur’an – 2:256. “Let there be no compulsion in religion.” Right. Sure.

  8. prman says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    In the U.S., start by getting rid of Hussain Obama and the idiot Democrats that support him.

  9. JimJFox says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    How far will they push? What possible response would deter them?

    How long til the first mushroom cloud blossoms over some islamic hellhole?

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    There are Christians in Aceh. Quite a few – surprisingly many, all things considered. Pray for them! Pray hard!

    Aceh has always been the most Islamic and Islamised part of the East Indies. C S Hurgronje, the Dutch scholar of Islam, wrote a classic work called “The Acehnese”.

    REv Dr Mark Durie, the Australian scholar, author of the excellent book “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”, first began to get an inkling of what Islam was all about, when – as a young linguist – he went to Aceh to study the language/s (this was way back in the 1980s, twenty years before September 11 2001, and long before he became aware of his vocation to be a Christian priest, and before he felt the call to look into Islam and..subsequently…to warn people about it).

    http://markdurie.blogspot.com/2010/09/third-choice-interview-of-mark-durie-by.html

    Monday, September 20, 2010

    ‘The Third Choice — Interview of Mark Durie by Mark Tapson for FrontPage Magazine’

    QUOTE:
    ‘MT: Dr. Durie, I’d like to begin talking about ‘The Third Choice’ by asking what inspired you, as an Anglican priest, to write a study of Islam and dhimmitude?

    ‘MD: I first became interested in Islam when doing linguistic field work in Aceh, Indonesia, in the early 1980’s.

    ‘The Acehnese people are proud of their Islamic identity, but despite enjoying countless discussions about religion with them, I made no attempt to study Islam formally; my whole focus was on linguistic research.

    ‘But I couldn’t escape learning about jihad, because it played such a large role in the historical consciousness of the people. An amazingly large number of works of Acehnese literature are jihad epics.

    ‘**Another aspect of my experience was contact with local Christians; this is how I came to know of the difficult circumstances of non-Muslims living in an Islamic society.** {my emphasis – dda: so things were already bad for non-Muslims in Aceh, 30-odd years ago}

    ‘When I left academia to become an Anglican minister, around 1998, I thought I was leaving Islamic jihad well behind me.

    ‘I had no idea of the depth and breadth of the global Islamic movement.

    ‘Then as I watched the burning World Trade Center towers collapse in the New York morning sunshine, I knew there was no ideology on this earth other than Islamic jihad which could have inspired such an attack.

    ‘It was no surprise when verses from the Koran reportedly found in the backpacks of the terrorists were exactly the same verses which had figured so prominently in Acehnese jihad epic poems from over a century ago.

    ‘At that point I knew I had to try to understand Islam properly..”.

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    And here’s a piece by Dr Durie that includes some discussion of Aceh under the Dutch, and C S Hurgronje.

    http://markdurie.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/insider-killings-in-afghanistan.html

    FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
    ‘Insider Killings’ in Afghanistan

    And at this person’s blog there’s some interesting stuff:

    http://www.worldtruthsummit.com/mark-durie.html

    “Mark Durie has experienced many different faces of Islam, sometimes almost simultaneously.

    “For instance, **he’s lived in the home of a welcoming and friendly older Muslim woman, who turned out to be the mother of the man who had headed a local massacre of Christians** {my emphasis – dda}.”

    And here:

    http://lorenzo-thinkingoutaloud.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/talk-by-rev-dr-mark-durie.html

    And here

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/40329

    Tuesday, 31 January 2012
    Imperialist Islam Unveiled: A wide ranging interview with Dr. Mark Durie

    (reference to the fact that to contain the jihad in Aceh, the Dutch had to specifically target the gang bosses – the ‘clerics’, the imams and sheikhs; exactly as Israel did when they blew away the so-called “blind sheik”)

    “Some of Snouck Hurgronje’s key points were that the Dutch had to finally grasp that they were fighting a religious war.

    “This meant that the power and influence of the ulamas had been raised to new heights by jihad conditions.

    “They [the Dutch] had to support traditional non-Islamic authority structures in Acehnese culture, specifically the traditional rulers whose interests balanced (or, for that matter, collided with – dda) those of religious leaders.

    ‘They had to stop brutalizing and punishing the general population, and **they needed to pursue and eliminate hostile religious leaders** [my emphasis – dda] who were stoking the jihad dogma among the people.

    ‘Snouck Hurgronje argued that key Islamic leaders who were driving the insurgency could never be ‘converted’ to the Dutch cause.

    ‘To implement this policy the Dutch used lightly armed groups of soldiers to pursue the Islamic teachers through the jungles. After a decade of following this policy the jihad insurgency war was essentially won.”

    But only so long as the ruling non-Muslim Power was prepared to whack any red-hot jihad gang boss.

    The moment that non-Muslim rule ended, the jihad came roaring back.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    Further observation.
    I, and some other posters and lurkers here, am Australian.

    This sort of news is very, very disturbing.

    If you want to know why, get out an atlas and look at where Muslim-majority, rapidly-going-sharia Indonesia sits, in relation to 1/ majority-Christian and secular Australia.

    Take a look at just how short a distance it is, across the water, from the eastern islands of the Indonesian archipelago, to Australia.

    And while you’re at it, look carefully at where majority-non-Muslim Singapore is, even *more* uncomfortably placed – and then you will not be surprised to learn that 1/ all Singaporeans undergo military training after they graduate high school or university , and 2/ all conversions to Islam, in Singapore, must be officially registered with the government.

    And think about the situation of majority-Christian Papua-New-Guinea, which has a *land* border with territory that was essentially invaded by Indonesia after the Dutch left, and is being steadily – and cruelly – Islamised both by demographic swamping – the hegira – and by every other method including mass killings, killings of priests, burning of churches, etc.

    Think about the situation of tiny little East Timor – look it up on that map, the eastern half of the island of Timor, only a short – very short – boat trip northwest of the north Australian city of Darwin. East Timor – mostly Catholic, or animist – was invaded and occupied and systematically looted by Indonesia, between the 1960s and 1990, and an estimated 300 000 of its people were killed, before – somehow – they were extricated from the claws of the Empire of Isla (and Indonesian Muslims are still gnashing their teeth, and doubtless plotting how to reconquer the place at the first opportunity, and punish it for successfully resisting Jihad).

    Here’s what V S Naipaul heard, when he visited Indonesia in the early 1980s, as recorded in his book, “Among the Believers” (which looked at Iran immediately post-Khomeini, at Pakistan, at Malaysia, and Indonesia; brilliant book, highly recommended).

    From VS NAIPAUL, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, 1981; 2001 paperback edition, p. 311.
    At a Muslim school in Pabelan in Java, Indonesia, sometime during the 1970s, V S Naipaul recorded the following exchange, initiated after someone observed, of one of the students, ‘He’s from Timor’.
    “Prasojo was interested. ‘Which one?’ {i.e., from East or West Timor}.
    ‘Timor’, said Taufiq, and laughed. ‘Our newest colony [the Indonesians had not yet been removed – dda]. Soon we’ll be colonizing Australia.’
    Prasojo said, ‘You mustn’t say those things’.”

    Every Australian non-Muslim, including all Christian, secular, Hindu, Buddhist and other-non-Muslim immigrants, needs to be aware of that; that there are Muslims in Indonesia, and probably not a few of them at that, who dream of and are most likely actively making plans for “colonising Australia”…that is, for conquering Australia and plundering it and forcing everyone in it to submit to Islam, to Muslim despots, to the sharia, just as Muslims within Indonesia, as in Aceh, are forcing everyone, including non-Muslims, to submit to the sharia, today.

  13. Kepha says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    DDA:

    Re Snouck Hurgronje’s observation on the impossibility of converting the mad mullahs, I fear that the free world is currently being led by a gang of nincompoops who are convinced that such mad mullahs will love them if only they make the right noises.

    Cephas, who feels like reading Lamentations out loud in public.

  14. Jay Boo says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    Islam is not completely SHAMELESS

    You cannot tell from the lead-in photo but the guy with the stick is wearing a light colored MASK around his eyes and nose.
    This proves Islam is not completely shameless after all.
    This shamefaced sharia HO is ashamed to be serving his pimp master MO.
    Either that or he is an opportunistic self-righteous coward.

  15. BOOGALOO says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    screw Islam and screw these half witted ass backward apes that follow it

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 12:55 am

      Seconded.

  16. rod sexton says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:34 am

    Send peanuts instead of money.

  17. michael Burd says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:50 am

    and to thin k our government gives these people over $500 Million each year supposedly for Aid ..but in reality insurance to the largest Muslim country in the world not to attack us..

    Burdy
    Australia.

    • Kev says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      Indonesia has minimal chances for the slightest hope, of a successful incursion on Australian soil. We as a Catholic society, aid those in suffering and who are less fortunate then us; because Jesus Christ, The Son of God, taught us this was His way.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 1:56 am

        Islam is quite successfully invading AUS, every day, in every way.

  18. EYESOPEN says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    “Non-Muslim violators of Indonesia’s national ciminal code (KUHP) will be given the option to choose between a sharia court or a regular court – but both courts will adhere to islamic legislation.”

    If that isn’t playing with a double-headed penny I don’t know what is.

  19. Michael says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:05 am

    Kev a catholic.Society ?where do you live kev In the Vatican?

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