The punishment was in accordance with the Sharia law, which forbids having sex outside of wedlock and punishes all offenders publicly. The abuses that are sanctioned in Islamic law are numerous. Yet these abuses, albeit committed in the name of Islam, are routinely deemed by both Muslim and non-Muslim spokesmen in the West to be […]
Indonesia: Sharia vigilantes beat gay couple, then turn them over to religious police
Indonesia’s Aceh province has been caning people at the rate of nearly one per day for Sharia violations; this is punishment for “crimes” that range from adultery to gambling and to a young woman merely standing too close to her boyfriend. The gay couple was beaten by spying vigilantes and turned over to religious police […]
Sharia Indonesia: Woman gets 100 lashes for sex outside marriage
In the West, we’re sold this bill of goods: “Islamic law is not primarily about harsh criminal punishments, such as stoning and hand-chopping — which, in any case, demanded such high standards of proof that historically they were hardly ever carried out.” In reality, in Sharia states today they’re quite frequently carried out, as they […]
Indonesia’s Aceh province lashes 339 people with cane in 2016 for violations of Sharia
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, […]
Sharia in Indonesia: Woman savagely beaten for standing too close to her boyfriend
The woman was seen crying in agony as she was lashed in front of a baying crowd for breaking Sharia law. She was just one of 13 women who was punished in the orthodox Indonesian province of Aceh. The young woman was brutalized under Islamic law in the province of Aceh in Indonesia – the […]
Sharia Indonesia: 60-year-old woman caned for selling alcohol in Aceh
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 […]
Raymond Ibrahim: The Indonesian Jihad on Christian Churches
Gatestone Institute In compliance with Islamic demands, Indonesian authorities in the Aceh region have started to tear down Christian churches. Their move comes after Muslim mobs rampaged and attacked churches. At least one person was killed; thousands of Christians were displaced. On Friday, October 9, after being fired up during mosque sermons, hundreds of Muslims […]
Indonesia: Muslims call for closure of churches in Sharia province
Aceh is not “conservative,” as the opening sentence of this Reuters piece has it; it is Sharia-adherent. In the mainstream media, you’re both conservative if you oppose Sharia and conservative you implement it. Sharia forbids Christians to build new churches or repair old ones. So while Sharia-adherent Muslims demand the closure of churches in Indonesia, […]
Indonesia: Muslim mobs attack churches, one dead, four wounded
Shhh! Do not speak of this! Remember: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims and possibly generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam.” — Bishop […]
Indonesian province to expand Sharia law
What could possibly go wrong? “In the latest of public whippings in Aceh, a prosecutor on December 5 took a cane to six family members who each received five to eight lashes for playing poker for money at a coffee shop. Such floggings have significantly increased recently in Aceh province, not only for gambling, but […]