That’s nearly one every day. These people were lashed for gambling, adultery, and the like — the usual Sharia transgressions. We’re constantly told in the West that Sharia is multiform and that there are numerous humane and benign interpretations. This is belied by the fact that wherever Sharia has been implemented and is implemented now, it looks essentially the same.
“Indonesia’s Aceh Authorities Lash Hundreds Under Sharia Statutes,” by Phelim Kine, Human Rights Watch, February 8, 2017:
Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province imposed the Sharia, or Islamic law, punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016, the first full-year of implementation of Aceh’s Sharia’s Criminal Code since it went into effect in September 2015.
The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, an Indonesian nongovernmental organization that compiled the statistics, warned the abusive practice will “continue to rise” in 2017.
Those punished with caning last year included 37 women for violations of Sharia including gambling.
Aceh is the only one of Indonesia’s 34 provinces that can legally adopt bylaws derived from Sharia. Since those bylaws began to go into effect in 2001, Human Rights Watch has documented human rights abuses linked to enforcement of Sharia bylaws prohibiting adultery and imposing public dress requirements on Muslims. The khalwat (“close proximity”) law makes association by unmarried individuals of the opposite sex a criminal offense in some circumstances. While the dress requirement is gender-neutral on its face, in practice it imposes far more onerous restrictions on women with the mandatory hijab, or veil, and long skirts. These “offenses” are not banned elsewhere in Indonesia.
Aceh’s so-called Sharia police have interpreted the broadly worded Sharia-inspired adultery law to prohibit merely sitting and talking in a “quiet” space with a member of the opposite sex to whom one is not married or related – even without any evidence of intimacy. Human Rights Watch has documented such abuses as aggressive interrogation, conditioning the release of suspects upon their agreement to marry, and, in one case, the Sharia police’s rape of a woman during her detention.
Aceh’s Sharia bylaws have proliferated. On September 27, 2014, Aceh’s provincial parliament approved bylaws that extend Sharia to non-Muslims, criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts as well as all zina (sexual relations outside of marriage). The criminal code permits up to 100 lashes and up to 100 months in prison for consensual same-sex sexual acts, while zina violations carry a penalty of 100 lashes. Those bylaws were implemented as part of Sharia Criminal Code in September 2015….

Nigel GFF says
http://www.thenational.ae/world/southeast-asia/how-indonesian-mosques-survived-the-tsunami
Just one example, suggesting why Aceh province is more accepting of Sharia & those derived ‘bylaws’. I am not convinced that the remaining 33 provinces would be any more welcoming to folks like me.
Angemon says
Aceh has a long history of islamic insurrection. They fought to impose sharia even before the tsunami.
maghan says
All stupid proxies for the degenerate Mohammedan Arabs of Arabia. Their slavish aping of primitive Arab customs just certifies them of being more degenerate and very stupid to boot.
Angemon says
But according to the likes of Linda Sarsour, sharia law is all about “interest free loans and credit cards”. Do you mean she lied?!?!?!
maghan says
Mohammedans are such miserable cultural poachers. They stole from Judaism and Christianity to establish their phony so-called religion. Now they are waxing all hot and sweaty about interest free loans. Well, the idea of interest-free loans goes all the way back to Aristotle. Then Augustine, Aquinas and Luther all railed against what they called usury.
But modern economics understood that economic progress could not take place unless there were incentives to provide capital for business.
The stupid Mohammedans are just hypocritically behind the times. Yet the Saudis hold billions of dollars in bonds which carry interest payments.
Sarsour should wear a burqa. QED.
DFD says
Send a copy of it to Theresa May (Sharia May) – nahhh. You only get into trouble…
What the hell is Trump thinking?
tgusa says
i am against islan because i really enjoy looking at the female persuasions beautiful hair. And I’m not apologizing!
So there.
Islam the religion of killers says
“Sharia-inspired adultery law to prohibit merely sitting and talking in a “quiet” space with a member of the opposite sex to whom one is not married or related – even without any evidence of intimacy.”
You get lashed for talking to the opposite sex but you don’t get anything for rape,,,, Oh… the religion of peace
Do you get lashed for Homosexual BDSM ??