But remember: anyone who suggests that Sharia and Western secular pluralism are incompatible is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

“Sixty-year-old woman caned in public for selling booze in Aceh,” DPA, April 12, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 60-year-old woman was caned in public in the north-west of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today after a local district court declared her guilty of selling alcoholic beverages.
The local shariah court in Takengon in Aceh province ordered 30 strokes of public caning for Remita Sinaga, news website Kompas.com reported, but the sentence was reduced to 28 strokes due to time she served in detention for 47 days before the court verdict.
“The convict will receive 28 strokes,” the verdict read, which was read out by the court prior to the public caning, according to the report.
Sinaga was among five offenders of Aceh’s strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law who were caned in front of a crowd. The other four convicts were two couples declared guilty of committing adultery.
The first couple – a 19-year-old man and 26-year-old woman – received three strokes each. The second couple – a former village chief in his 40s and a 30-year-old woman – received 100 strokes each….
john spielman says
this and WORSE is coming to all western countries which refuse to acknowledge that islam with its sharia law is the vile fascist antidemocratic movement to subjugate by force, the entire world
Godwin says
It was reported in some Asian Press that old woman was a Christian !
Godwin says
Her customers are non-Muslims.
nicu says
Very true !
Why they did not punish the MEN who bought it ?
Hypocrites , again !
Veritas says
According to the Daily Mail and other news sources, your article appears to have omitted the most salient point.
The woman in question was allegedly a Christian.
Daily Mail – 13th April 2016
An elderly Christian woman has been caned in a conservative Indonesian province for selling alcohol, the first time someone from outside the Islamic faith has been punished there under strict religious laws.
The 60-year was whipped nearly 30 times with a rattan cane before a crowd of hundreds in Aceh province Tuesday, an official said, along with a couple who were subjected to 100 lashes for committing adultery.
Aceh is the only province in the predominantly Muslim country that applies sharia law, and public canings for breaches of Islamic code happen on a regular basis and often attract huge crowds.
Sharia law enforcement officials cane a non-Muslim woman for selling alcohol in Takengon, in Aceh province, the first time someone from outside the Islamic f…
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Sharia law enforcement officials cane a non-Muslim woman for selling alcohol in Takengon, in Aceh province, the first time someone from outside the Islamic faith has been punished there under strict religious laws
Those caught engaging in adultery, same-sex relationships, drinking and even associating with unmarried members of the opposite sex can end up facing the cane.
Though the law once only applied to Muslims, a bylaw that took effect late last year allowed sharia regulations to be applied to non-Muslims in certain situations, Lili Suparli, a senior official at the Central Aceh prosecutor’s office told AFP.
“This is the first case of a non-Muslim being punished under Islamic criminal bylaw,” he said, referring to the punishment of the Christian woman.
mortimer says
Another case of religious persecution of Christians. Will Pope Francis continue to pretend this is not the biggest persecution of Christians in history?
Will the heads of churches…the shepherds…continue to refuse to defend the sheep…continue to be silent…continue to refuse to speak out in defense of the helpless?
Who will speak out for the bishops when they are arrested?
john spielman says
and to think that I SENT MONEY TO ACEH province to rebuild after the tsunami 2004
billybob says
I saw a documentary about this place. It focussed on the morality police that go around hastling girls and young women if a bit of hair is showing past their hijabs. The girls watch out for them and tell each other which routes have the patrols, like speeders warning other drivers where the radar traps are. Many are very upset with this being imposed upon them.
sham says
ALCOHOLISM LEADS TO CRIME/DECEASED TO SOCIETY:
4: 43. O you who believe! Approach not As¬Salât (the prayer) when you are in a drunken state until you know (the meaning) of what you utter, nor when you are in a state of Janâba, (i.e. in a state of sexual impurity and have not yet taken a bath) except when travelling on the road (without enough water, or just passing through a mosque), till you wash your whole body……………….
5: 90. O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, Al¬Ansâb, and Al¬Azlâm (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaitân’s (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful. 91. Shaitân (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allâh and from As-Salât (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?
2: 219. They ask you (O Muhammad SAW) concerning alcoholic drink and gambling. Say: “In them is a great sin, and (some) benefit for men, but the sin of them is greater than their benefit.” And they ask you what they ought to spend. Say: “That which is beyond your needs.” Thus Allâh makes clear to you His Laws in order that you may give thought.”
Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 104 ,105,109
Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah observed: The fornicator who fornicates is not a believer so long as he commits it and no thief who steals is a believer as long as he commits theft, and no drunkard who drinks wine is a believer as long as he drinks it. ‘Abdul-Malik b. Abi Bakr’ narrated this on the authority of Abu Bakr b. Abdur-Rahman b. Harith and then said: Abu Huraira made this addition: No plunderer[looter, robbery] who plunders a valuable thing that attracts the attention of people is a believer so long as he commits this act.
Dawud :: Book 38 : Hadith 4470
Narrated Qabisah ibn Dhuwayb:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone drinks wine, flog him; if he repeats it, flog him, and if he repeats it, flog him. If he does it again a third or a fourth time, kill him. A man who had drunk wine was brought (to him) and he gave him lashes. He was again brought to him, and he flogged him. He was again brought to him and he flogged him. He was again brought to him and he flogged him. The punishment of killing (for drinking) was repealed, and a concession was allowed.
Dawud :: Book 38 : Hadith 4467
Narrated Mu’awiyah ibn AbuSufyan:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If they (the people) drink wine, flog them, again if they drink it, flog them. Again if they drink it, kill them.
Dawud :: Book 26 : Hadith 3666
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah has cursed wine, its drinker, its server, its seller, its buyer, its presser, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who conveys it, and the one to whom it is conveyed.
Muslim :: Book 23 : Hadith 4963
Ibn ‘Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Every intoxicant is Khamr and every intoxicant is forbidden. He who drinks wine in this world and dies while he is addicted to it, not having repented, will not be given a drink in the Hereafter.
No beat punishment for weak person:
Muslim :: Book 17 : Hadith 4224
Abd al-Rahman reported that ‘Ali, while delivering the address said: O people, impose the prescribed punishment upon your slaves, those who are married and those not married, for a slave-woman belonging to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had committed adultery, and he committed me to flog her. But she had recently given birth to a child and I was afraid that if I flogged her I might kill her. So I mentioned that to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and he said: You have done well.
Westman says
Ah, the pretty-pretty lazy boys, that call themselves “men”, beating women, the real workers, with a stick. More IslamoProdigies strutting their stuff. What a scourge Islam is upon the world.
Islam claims that all will be judged and if the good outweighs the bad, it’s Jannah; if not it’s the Hell of Allah’s sadistic torture, forever. Of course when earthly self-determination is robbed by excessive Islamic regulation and the administration of corporal punishments, it makes the final judgement a double-jepardy farce. Also, real scales can balance – what does Allah do then, flip a coin?
Champ says
ISLAM LEADS TO CRIME & A DISEASED SOCIETY
Angemon says
sham posted:
“ALCOHOLISM LEADS TO CRIME/DECEASED TO SOCIETY:”
Not in muslim countries – I don’t see how they can get possibly any worse.
Anyway, quran 16:67:
And from the fruits of the palm trees and grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who reason.
Jay Boo says
High school students wishing to role play a Muslima during Hijab day at might wish to include this flogging ritual along with a FGM in their activity schedule.
Veritas says
Here’s another example of somebody who deserves to be flogged. According to Allah.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.
JMB says
And to this day there is a thriving trade in Cana wine!
In my branch of Christianity we are teetotalers. We also accept that many branches of Christanity are not and even use Cana wine in special services. Hopefully we have never called for these Christians to be publicly flogged.
PRCS says
Now, pay attention!
“Sinaga was among five offenders of Aceh’s strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law”
When a thief’s hand is amputated in the Islamic State, politicians and so-called journalists typically refer to the act as “a perversion of Islam” or some such.
So, why the “strict interpretation” line for these canings?
Ever notice the same double standard when our pals the Sowdies conduct public beheadings in the public square after Friday prayers?
JMB says
President Obama has strong Indonesian connections, perhaps he can give the free non-Islamic world a rational interpretation of all of this.
JMB says
Aceh is a bad place. The Indonesian government has continually turned a blind eye to what has amounted to state sanctioned torching of churches over the years. The louts who are more than happy to do it think it is great fun. Where are the protests from Christian leaders in the West? Sorry, too busy championing the rights of gays.
2, Some years ago the province of Aceh was devastated by a tidal wave. I donated to a Christian aid organisation. I subsequently found out that that the aid was not allowed to be distributed. Why? It would be offensive for Muslims to accept aid from a Christian charity.
Helen says
At the same time that the Indonesian military and militia were raping, raiding, pillaging, torturing and executing Timorese people, they were doing the same thing in ACEH, I remember thinking great we helped Timor be free and re-build, then we will help ACEH, nope, no help for ACEH, every day the native peoples of ACEH were murdered, just like currently in West Papua.
mtrancher303 says
This is the true face of Islam, not that watered down crap that Obama is trying to push. Until they separate sharia from the Islamic “Religion” there will be no co-existence.
steve says
I guess the bitch failed at suicide bombing school…………Her sisters are probably in Muslim heaven….
Baucent says
She is a Christian according to other media.
Baucent says
The sad irony in this story is the woman (who in other media is identified as a Christian) was probably just a convenience store owner who stocked a few cans of Beer in her shop refrigerator. Indonesia may be the worlds largest muslim country but it also produces a nationally available brand of beer. Most of which is consumed by muslims, and since Aceh has such a small population of non-muslims, this woman’s customers were likely to be muslims as well. What is significant is the extending of Sharia law to non- muslims. Muslims pushing for Sharia law always claim it won’t apply to non-muslins, they are lying.
Angemon says
Indeed.