Hey! At least they weren't hung!
That's gotta hurt...
Posted on 07/30/2006 8:46:28 AM PDT by dolphin_CAGE
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two people in Indonesia's Aceh have been caned for adultery, the latest case of public punishments since courts in the province were allowed to implement Islamic sharia law. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation but only Aceh has the right to adopt sharia law in the judicial system.
Aceh courts received that freedom in 2003 as part of an autonomy package Jakarta offered in an attempt to quell separatist passions in the province, where thousands died in a long-running insurgency.
"Both of them were arrested by sharia police in a kiosk in Sawang district two weeks ago after they were caught in an intimate situation," Tengku Marnus Labsyar, head of the South Aceh Sharia's office, told Reuters by telephone.
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Welcome to Islam. The form of fanatic government, posing as a religion, that still lives in tenth century...
Hey! At least they weren't hung!
That's gotta hurt...
How sick to you have to be to actually get out and go watch something like this?
Seems that only men are allowed to watch the caning.
Males maybe. I can't see a man standing around and watching this happen.
Good point and correction.
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