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Indonesia: Teen girl and her boyfriend are caned for hugging in public

Feb 3, 2019 5:08 pm By Robert Spencer

Sharia morality doesn’t strive to inculcate virtue, that is, the desire to do what is good because it is good. Rather, it seeks to make believers so afraid of harsh punishments that they fear to transgress the law. Sharia establishes an empire of fear.

“Teenagers are thrashed for having a cuddle: Woman, 18, and her boyfriend are whipped with bamboo cane in public for breaching Indonesia’s strict Sharia law,” AFP, January 31, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Two teenagers have been whipped 17 times each after spending months in jail because they were caught hugging in Indonesia’s Aceh province.

A female university student and her boyfriend, both 18, were handed the sentence under strict Sharia law in the province, which forbids intimate displays in public.

The pair were marched on to a stage in front of a mosque in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh before being struck across the back with a bamboo cane.

Aceh is the only province in Indonesia which follows a strict code of Sharia Law, which includes punishments such as caning for public acts which are deemed to be indecent

Afterward, Banda Aceh deputy mayor Zainal Arifin said: ‘People outside of Aceh who think Islamic Sharia is cruel can now see that it is actually very tolerant and humane.’

Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch the punishment being carried out.

A 35-year-old man was also flogged with a rattan cane for being intimate with a woman – aged 40 – in a local grocery store.

On Thursday, the 40-year-old woman pleaded to be caned in order to get out of jail, but a medical team postponed her flogging after they deemed her physically unfit.

All four had served several months in prison.

Aceh is the only province in the world’s biggest Muslim majority country that imposes Islamic law.

Rights groups slam public caning as cruel, and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has called for it to end.

But the practice has wide support among Aceh’s mostly Muslim population – around 98 percent of its five million residents practise Islam….

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    Isn’t this where our ex-Prez Barack Hussein grew up?

    • christianblood says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 10:39 pm

      Not just Indonesia and the Islamic world. THE ANTICHRIST WEST SUPPORTS ISLAM!

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 3, 2019 at 10:42 pm

        Of course, it is not the free West flogging lovers for hugging.

        • revereridesagain says

          Feb 3, 2019 at 10:46 pm

          Funny how often it’s the religiously motivated tyrants who want to cane young people just for showing affection in public.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 4, 2019 at 2:29 pm

          This happens all the time in Dar-al-Islam, revereridesagain. A married couple was arrested for kissing in one of the Gulf states recently.

  2. David M says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    Can we cane Linda Sarsour next time she hugs someone? She’s a big sharia law supporter, I say she should put up or shut up.

    • william says

      Feb 4, 2019 at 5:23 am

      OE put down!!

      • william says

        Feb 4, 2019 at 5:24 am

        or put down

  3. Westman says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    Amazingly, this is much in the image of the sadist god, Allah, who relishes in the suffering of others.

    “Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.” – Quran 4:56.

    “…they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting Allah.” – ibid 6:70

    This is wisdom? Torturing? What a guy…an absolute sadist with 20% of humanity in tow.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    Good point from Robert Spencer: SHARIA establishes a society of FEAR.

    Under Sharia, anyone can be denounced at anytime for innocent behaviors and the since it is ‘blasphemy’, many people will believe the accusations. The rules of evidence are of no interest to a mob of fanatical people who are righteously defending the supremacism of Islam. The mob has a cult mentality.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Feb 4, 2019 at 3:42 am

      Indeed. There is a reason Adolf Hitler was envious of Islam.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    Indonesia: Teen girl and her boyfriend are caned for hugging in public
    ………………..

    Appalling. There is no love in Islam.

  6. Henry says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    you can only screw little boys and cut off little girls parts and rape females, beat your wives, whenever you feel like it but don’t you dare hug someone in public. A gesture millions of us do all the time, in countries free of islam/sharia stupidity that is.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 11:51 pm

      *Spot on*, Henry. There is no morality in Islam.

    • Richard Holroyd says

      Feb 5, 2019 at 8:51 am

      There are very few countries without muslims these days thanks to PCleftist pollution

  7. Marigold says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 4:27 am

    The caning took place in front of a mosque with a crowd watching.The local Iman would have to agree to the punishment being carried out in public.I suppose it was televised as well and shown on local TV to discourage ”immoral” behaviour.

    Imagine the public outcry if canings took place outside OUR Christian churches agreed to by OUR pastors and priests.

    OUR hypocritical,sensationalist MSM would have a ball considering how ” Christian”. they are.They quite rightly cover cruelty to animals including the live sheep transports going to the Middle East to be slaughtered ”properly” in order to feed these merciless barbarians.

    If they were consistent and covered the torture and suffering of unborn babies torn from their mother’s wombs because of abortion ” rights ” I could believe they were genuine..However, they are deathly silent about this so to me that makes them as merciless as Muslims who support Sharia law. .

    • Richard Holroyd says

      Feb 5, 2019 at 9:01 am

      True believers pray constantly that this abortion mass murder would cease and press for alternatives to be given to women who think abortion is the only way …but are often prevented from talking to troubled women by “rights” activists intent that abortions take place….these are the evil ones.

  8. William Shackelford says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 10:56 pm

    Does President Trump know of this site? He should.

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