But remember: any criticism of Sharia out of you will immediately show you to be a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”
“Terrified Indonesian woman is escorted by police before being caned in public for having sex outside marriage in violation of Sharia law,” by Sophie Law, Daily Mail, March 2, 2020:
A terrified woman was today dragged by police before she was publicly caned in Indonesia’s Aceh province for having sex outside of marriage, a crime punishable under strict local Islamic law.
Dozens gathered to watch as the humiliated woman was whipped along with seven other people outside a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.
A masked sharia officer known as an ‘algojo’ rained down between five to 45 lashes from a rattan cane on their backs after they were caught with members of the opposite sex.
The men and women were rounded up by religious officers after they reportedly had intercourse outside marriage – which violates Aceh province’s strict Sharia laws.
Despite widespread criticism, public whipping is a common punishment for a range of offences in the deeply conservative region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
Aceh is the only region in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law.
Authorities gave few details, but couples have been whipped in the past for cuddling or holding hands in public.
About 98 per cent of Aceh’s five million residents are Muslims subject to religious law, known locally as Qanun.
While it’s relatively rare, non-Muslims who have committed an offence can choose to be prosecuted under Islamic law, sometimes to avoid a prison sentence….
Steve Edelman says
Never, ever voluntarily commit to obeying Islamic law.
nicu says
Seems they need another Tsunami
revereridesagain says
Further inland this time.
Steven Edelman says
Read books written by Robert Spencer. He has done accurate research, and is the best source for learning what to do about the Muslim problem.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Serves her right. Uh, that is to say serves her right if you think Islam (i.e., Allah) is right. Only a Moslem Man is permitted to engage in adultery. It’s a pecking order thing.
revereridesagain says
Same the world over. If some articles by “good Christian conservatives” I’ve read lately are anything to go by, there could be clown shows on the floor of Congress pressing for similar legislation in a few years. Predictably, only the “loose women” would end up being penalized but then that’s already in the works, isn’t it?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Well, you have a point. The media attempted to drag President Trump through the mud pit for his Stormy Daniels tryst (and no doubt others) while married to Melania, but the public yawned. A skirt chaser is ok, whether JFK or DJT. No harm no foul.
But all this is complicated my the #MeToo movement, which is targeted at skirt chasers. Thus my disappointment that the media didn’t publicize what Amy Klobuchar did while DA for Hennepin County MN. A hockey player with the Boston Bruins was in town, and was delighted to be approached by two good looking young women to visit his hotel room, which they did for a threesome. Then the two had Amy file charges of forcible rape again him. Trouible was, two *other* girls had overheard in a bar a few hours before the hockey game the two false accusers plotting to do a fake rape charge and make some money. Amy quietly dropped the charges without explanation, but did not file felony charges against the two “raped” young women for their crime. The MSM, or Fox, ftm, never brought it up. So Amy was let alone to run her campaign for president.
gravenimage says
What Christians are calling for flogging women?
Ray Jarman says
++++++++++1 The first thing that comes to mind is the story in John where a woman was sentenced to death by the Pharisees for prostitution and Jesus says to them let the one who is perfect throw the first stone and later Jesus told her to go and sin no more where as the god of Islam, Allah, shows no mercy. Jesus came to earth to cleanse us sinners through the atonement whereas there is no such forgiveness to found in the unholy Qur’an.
dhans says
Ray I hope you understand that the particular verse about the adulterous women you quoted is widely considered to be an addition to the Bible not found in early texts. It is rightfully placed in the footnotes of any modern Bible. Where, when, and by whom it was added is unknown. The bottom line is that the Bible is hardly without flaw, and selective quoting of passages is to be avoided, especially questionable ones. The particular topic of salvation through faith or acts is a little more complicated in Christianity. Let’s just say that you are given salvation through faith, but that acts are done in confirmation of your faith. Done out of love and gratitude, not blind servitude, as in Islam. This is a major difference in the two faiths and why the two are totally incompatible. The later elevates man to a position of moral arbitration that he cannot ever reasonably occupy, due to his imperfect nature.
gravenimage says
The idea that John 7:53–8:11 has been rejected by Christianity is mistaken. While some scholars do indeed question the later sources of these verses, no mainstream Christian denomination has rejected them.
b.a. freeman says
revereridesagain, Jesus didn’t say to pay God what is HIs and caesar what is his with the intent of imposing laws enforcing God’s law; if U can, please let me know what part of the new testament says that’s what christians should do. there have *ALWAYS* been boobs who think that God needs help, but christians who know the meaning of their scriptures won’t be found among them. no christian is perfect, so some will always think that way (as do some believers of *any* religion).
islam is another animal, however; pervert muhammed may have only done things that everybody else was doing back in the day, but he is considered the al-insan al-kamil (perfect man), and therefore the uswa hasana (model of conduct) for every muslim (the men, anyway; women and children are property), so every muslim is *required* to do as muhammed did … for *ALL* *TIME*. if muhammed was wrong about anything, then allah made a mistake choosing him (and saying that he was the dude to emulate about 90+ times), because the perfect man wasn’t perfect, and therefore, neither was he. needless to say, “defaming” muhammed by telling the truth about his actions (to non-muslims) is considered blasphemy because it reflects badly on pervert muhammed (and his sock-puppet, allah) *and* destroys the entire foundation of the cult, so this particular aspect of islam will *N*E*V*E*R* change. this means that slavery, sex slavery, rape, murder, chile molestation, theft, and mass murder will *never* fail to be part of islam.
the bottom line is that saying that *any* non-islamic religion is also at fault is a tu quoque fallacy; just because some people of some religion have mistaken (and *bad*) ideas about their own religion does not absolve the cult of islam of its vile, gangsta beliefs. to the best of my knowledge, there is *NO* other religion with the barbarous, uncivilized, monstrously evil beliefs of islam. there may have been such religions in the past, but there appear to be none like it now. islam is a mind disease, and its victims, being so numerous, cannot be handled safely in any other fashion than quarantine in their own s**thole nations. anyone of the ummah who throws over his membership in the cult should be carefully welcomed into the community of civilized human beings; pious muslims need to be sent back to the ummah.
b.a. freeman says
sigh …
“chilE” should be “chilD” in the second paragraph.
sorry.
Paul says
Few if any Christian practices have no place being used to bolster your darkest love for islam! CHRISTIANS dont intentionally cause suffering to anyone! Islam is evil Christianity is not!
sidney penny says
“Despite widespread criticism, public whipping is a common punishment for a range of offences in the deeply conservative region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.”
They should say deeply religious rather than deeply conservative.
Deeply conservative means different things in different places.
By the way smoking and taking illegal drugs is OK in this region. (but not gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.)
DHazard says
Another daily tragedy brought to you by Muhammad. Here’s another more tragic story of how Islam destroys the lives of it’s own followers:
“Iranian law forbids women to be seen in public with men who are not family members. However, not all Iranians comply, and many meet their significant others in public parks.
Now police have decided to put an end to the growing phenomenon and forbid couples to hold hands in public. Ruzbahani said married couples were also called upon to “act modestly” in public.
“They should not act in an inappropriate manner or in a way that will attract attention,” he said.
Other police officials said kissing in public was also strictly forbidden.
Last week it was reported that a young woman committed suicide after being arrested for a “moral offense”. Zuhara Bani, a 27-year-old med student, was caught in a public park with her boyfriend.
She was taken to a detention facility, where she hung herself 48 hours later with a piece of cloth she had found.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3462586,00.html
Wellington says
+1
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder if that piece of cloth she found was actually her hijab.
Wellington says
Coming to a neighborhood near you PRECISELY to the extent that Islam takes over your neighborhood, and more expansively your country.
Best to proceed as though this is a given since underestimating evil (and Islam is surely evil) is invariably worse than overestimating evil.
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Terrified woman publicly caned for violating Sharia by having sex outside of marriage
……………
Gee–they must be “moderate” since they didn’t stone her to death.
And I would take the claim that she “had sex outside of marriage” with a huge grain of salt. Many of these girls have done nothing more than kiss or hold hands. Notice there is no mention of flogging the man in question, either. This is very common.
Westman says
Is a nation that allows different laws in differenct regions actually a nation of laws? What justifies allowing a religion to govern a region autonomousy while the rest of the nation is under a uniform set of laws? Fear of the “religion of peace”? When will the alligators come for the rest of of Indonesia?
tim gallagher says
Complete barbarism, that’s islam for you. It is like some truly horrendous left over from way, way back in mankind’s history. Islam truly does not deserve to exist, most of the human race has progressed way beyond this type of totally disgusting behaviour. Islam is such a loathsome ideology, full of totally inhumane behaviours and rules and punishments. It is such a load of primitive, vicious garbage. As gravenimage often says, God, I hate islam, a sentiment with which I agree. And, as is often mentioned here at Jihad Watch, where are the western feminists raising hell over this type of Islamic garbage? They seem to nearly always give Islam a free pass.
ManchesterLad says
Of course, the reported ‘sex outside marriage’ could just mean they have been raped, and were stupid enough to report it.
As far as I know, under Sharia, unless a woman has four male witnesses to corroborate her rape, she is considered to have had sex outside marriage, a crime under Sharia. So just by reporting her rape, a women is admitting to having sex outside marriage.
They should probably count themselves lucky they were not stoned to death.
The usual silence from the left – and ‘feminists’ – in the west, of course!
gravenimage says
+1
SaveYourSoul says
Too bad the U.S.doesn’t publicly came ALL adulterers.
Starting with my ex-husband.
dhans says
LOL. Forgiveness is divine.
gravenimage says
SYS, Islam would be more likely to go after you than your ex-husband.
OLD GUY says
Where are the women liberation groups? You would think they would be outraged about this kind of treatment towards their gender anywhere in the world. I guess they don’t consider muslim women worth the effort. The muslim MEN believe they are SUPERIOR to everyone in the world, if American MEN made that claim the women would have their pink hats on and march on every state and national capitols in the world.
GO FIGURE.
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights for women and I condemn this savagery. But you are right that most women’s groups are shamefully silent.
Goofy says
This is one of the many paradoxes of Islam which is the only religion which codifies prostitution. Prostitution is a strong word and is quite insulting to the Muslims who prefer to call it contract marriage. You can conclude a contract marriage for as short time as a weekend.
I am not in that business but I believe that you have to conclude the marriage contract in the office of the local imam, which she had obviously not done, and the imam had therefore been cheated out of his cut.
To avoid painful repetition she better get her paperwork in order! The other legal option is in principle to leave Islam, but that might get her killed for apostasy legally or extra legally.