A question to ponder: if the Sharia is considered to be divine law (as it is in normative Islam), then to strictly follow it should be honorable. But notice what happens when people closely abide by Sharia dictates: they become more intolerant, more rigid and more abusive — from advocating beatings and stoning to beheading and torture in prisons for various violations of the “divine” Sharia.
Let’s just ignore the plight of an incalculable number of victims everywhere in support of “diversity” and “tolerance,” while we slam the freedom of speech and the ability even to discuss these matters, all while enjoying what’s left of the freedoms that many do not realize are disappearing.
“Couples are punished with 20 lashes of the cane for having sex outside marriage in Indonesian region governed under Sharia law,” by Jack Newman, MailOnline, March 8, 2021:
Four couples have been caned with up to 20 lashes for having sex outside of marriage in Indonesia.
The men and women were publicly flogged in the ultra-conservative Aceh province governed by Sharia law on Monday.
Crowds gathered to watch the brutal punishment being handed out despite the coronavirus pandemic, with many taking pictures and videos on their phones.
The couples, wearing face masks, were checked by medical officers before the caning and escorted in handcuffs to the rug where they knelt to receive the lashings.
A hooded cane-wielding enforcer, whose face could not be seen, delivered the punishment to the offenders.
Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law. About 98 per cent of Aceh’s five million residents are Muslims.
The public canings usually attract large crowds of eager spectators but today’s punishments were handed out indoors with only a small circle of observers. …
European pagan says
They watched it and took pictures. Sick people.
mortimer says
Those pictures should be fed to Western audience on every news channel until Western people see what authentic Islam is like. (This is the ideal freedom of expression we need to wake people up.)
Kay says
Make Obama comment on this.
Westman says
Sick indeed. People so miserable that schadenfreude is more real than love.
And what would happen if nobody came to the caning? They would be forced to attend under threat of caning upon themselves.
Aceh is sick from the top down, slaves to a 7th century scam by a warlord.
Donovan Nuera says
Think of all the Western aid that flowed to that province after the Boxing Day Tsunami….given freely by Westerners without any hesitation. Same province where Christian schoolgirls were beheaded on their way to school.
gravenimage says
I know that the Islamic State often mandated that people attend these acts of public savagery on pain of punishment.
Walter Sieruk says
This serves as a harsh reminder that in the Islamic world there is no concept ,at all, of the idea of the separation of State and religion.
David Grisez says
That is true. The ideology of Islam is unlike any other religious system, in that government and religion are combined into a single system. In Islam government and religion are one and the same. Historically in ancient times it was common for religion and government to be combined into a single system in various ancient nations. However Islam appears to be the only ideology that holds onto this ancient practice.
Michael Copeland says
“Separation of religion and state is not an option” – Dr JS Idris, Sudan.
In fact Sudan recently moved to separate religion and state. It remains to be seen if this really will be so.
PRCS says
Democracy and theocracy.
Two systems of governance which are each antithetical to, and incompatible with the other.
The U.S.l is governed as a representative democracy.
Islam is a theocracy.
Hadrian says
Funny how Islamic literalist behaviour is so analogous to the universally decried ‘incel’ behaviour. But muh cis strayt whight menz r entitled incels liwing in mommy’s bayzementz.
Fuck off, the real incels literally get pampered REPEATEDLY
Fred van de Bunt says
Wasn’t it mister Freud that gave attention to frustrations related to suppressed sexual behaviour?
I suppose if you are forced to stare and smell the farting asses of other men in front of you on a daily basis in places they call mosques, you will get sexually pretty frustrated.
Out of that frustration Muslims naturally started to beat the crap out of other people that have healthy sex lives, mister Freud might have explained.
Mike says
So Muslim men can do anything that walks Boys and Girls.
but that’s allowed!
I’ve seen video’s of Muslim men pollinating the tail pipe of a vehicle, Animals
It just boggles the mind
Michael Copeland says
“the ultra-conservative Aceh province governed by Sharia law”. Things are looking up: no mention of “their interpretation” of Sharia. Thank you, Jack Newman, MailOnline, This is refreshingly straightforward.
PRCS says
Note to those who object to the “conservative” label:
Islam is NOT a warm and fuzzy liberal ideology.
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Four couples get 20 lashes for sex outside marriage in Sharia province Aceh
………….
Just appalling. And recall that in Islam “sex outside marriage” can mean nothing more than unrelated couples holding hands or even just speaking to each other.
Note that even thoughonly Aceh imposes full Shari’ah law, that almost three-quarters of Muslims in Indonesia want to see Shari’ah imposed there.
Still, I guess this is “moderate” in that they didn’t stone them to death…
But almost half of Muslims in Indonesia *do* want to see women stoned to death.
https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/
Donovan Nuera says
The irony is not lost when one looks at that sad photograph; poor defenseless lady getting beaten and in pain while troglodytes laugh and smile at her while using infidel-dominant country-produced video-smart phones that their culture could never produce in 1 million centuries… why slavishly worshipping the idiotic cult of an illiterate 7th Cent. Violent child rapist from a far off land!
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling.
OLD GUY and says
And Biden-Harris think bring these Islamic sharia loving people to our neighborhoods will be good for us. Somebody explain it to me.
Donovan Nuera says
But…but he said Islam is “one of the great ‘confessional’ faiths “!!!!
Um….ooookay
Keith O says
If adherence to Sharia is so honorable, then why did the turn whipping these poor bastards find it necessary to hide his identity behind a mask?
A bit like the brave isis thugs wearing masks.