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This image is really disturbing, particularly to my Western sensibility. It makes me wonder if we are going to see stoning next. According to Human Rights Watch, that's a possibility:
The new law calls for married adulterers to be stoned to death and punishes consensual sexual conduct with flogging - 100 lashes each for homosexual conduct and for adulterous conduct between unmarried partners. The law (Law No. 11/2006 of the Government of Aceh) passed on September 14, 2009, and although Aceh's governor, Irwandi Yusuf, has said he will not sign the law, it will take effect in mid-October unless national authorities intervene.
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If this practice is perfectly acceptable, then why has the person doing the whipping covered his face? God still knows who he is, even if we don't.
There is nothing more backward and cowardly than sharia law. It is an abomination.
I was about to say the same thing as javadanny. It's backward and barbaric, at the least. People are going to continue to gamble, commit adultery, have sex before marriage. This doesn't stop anyone from doing what they want to do.
The muslim rebels must have been supported by the locale people to be put in charge of the provence.
So I guess the people only are getting what they wanted.