Posted on 05/12/2005 4:16:57 AM PDT by An American Patriot
Within an hour, the entire village would learn that the 25-year-old married woman had been discovered in a darkened nearby hut with her lover.
Within two days, Amina was dead -- killed by her fellow villagers April 20 after the men of the community ruled that she had violated Islamic law by having an affair with a neighbor....
It was a beautiful spot, shaded by an enormous tree and offering a charming view of the village clinging to the mountainside.
It was also an ideal place for a stoning.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
Next to him sat Amina. Her expression was once again blank, Aslam said.
It threw Aslam into a rage.
"I shouted, 'What is she doing here? Give her to me! I will kill her!' " he recounted last week. "I was so shocked, and my Islamic dignity was so offended."
But the other villagers restrained him, Aslam and other witnesses said.
"We told him, 'No, no! This should be handled by sharia now,' " his brother Hashem recalled, referring to the Islamic legal code.
"Fine, I will give her over to sharia then," Aslam said he responded. "Whatever sharia says, I will do it."...
Islam is a disease.
This probably was their view, but my understanding of sharia is that it also requires the execution of the man. His being unmarried is irrelevant. What counts is that she was married.
Under Sharia, the punishment for adultery is death by stoning. But the code requires that there be undeniable proof of the crime -- for instance, multiple witnesses to the sex act, a confession, or other signs such as an inexplicable pregnancy....
But no one involved disputes that the villagers were unanimous in their view that according to the dictates of Islam, the proper resolution of the case would be for Karim, as an unmarried man, to be lashed and Amina, as a married woman, to be stoned to death.
Early that afternoon, one of the mullahs went to fetch a stick with which to whip Karim as Yousaf took his leave of the villagers.
Then they watched Yousaf's turban slowly vanish over a mountain path and, along with it, Amina's last hope.
Punishment
There are two, conflicting accounts of Amina's death.
According to her great-uncle Assan, after the shura reached its verdict, a group of villagers came to the dark storage room and took her away to be stoned.
"She knew what was going to happen to her," Assan said softly. "She was screaming and sobbing."
Amina's paternal uncle, Mohammad Azim, said he watched as the villagers forced Amina down a muddy path toward a patch of soft earth along a riverbank surrounded by stones, a few yards from the edge of the village.
It was a beautiful spot, shaded by an enormous tree and offering a charming view of the village clinging to the mountainside.
It was also an ideal place for a stoning.
"They dug a hole in the ground right here," Azim said, pointing to a spot in the clearing six days later. "Then they buried Amina up to her waist, with her arms pinned by her side."
Azim said Amina's hair was covered in a head scarf, and that she was crying in terror as nearly a hundred men gathered in a circle around her and began throwing small rocks at her head.
"I couldn't watch for more than a few minutes," Azim said. Instead, he said, he walked up to Amina's parents' house and waited with them in silence during the two hours it took to kill her.
Several villagers and Amina's mother said that they, too, believe she was stoned. And a few said they had seen the bloody hole after she was removed from it.
But no one else would admit to witnessing the actual stoning, much less participating in it. And the ground where Amina was allegedly buried to her waist showed little sign of disturbance six days after her death -- possibly because, as Azim and other villagers contend, they had refilled the hole and then the river had flooded over it, or possibly because the stoning never happened.
Several other villagers, including Amina's uncle, Hashem, tell a very different story.
Hashem said the villagers handed Amina over to her uncles, including himself and Azim. Their original intention was to hang her, Hashem said. But as they were leading her away, they became increasingly angry and started to beat her with their fists.
"It was dark," he said. "All of us were striking her, and then she fainted and we saw that she was on the ground and not breathing. Maybe she had a heart attack."
Whatever the means of her death, Amina's parents said her bruised corpse was returned to them sometime between afternoon and evening prayers that day.
Amina's mother, Nessa, said she did not grieve.
"My daughter was a criminal and a sinner who brought dishonor on my name," Nessa said hotly several days later. "And I should be blamed for her death, not anyone else, because I told my tribe they could kill her. I forgave them for spilling her blood."...
If Amina had been allowed to live, Nessa added, the shame of it would have forced Nessa to leave the only home she had ever known and a valley in which her family had lived for generations.
"But now I can walk everywhere in the village with my head high. . . . I'm happy. Extremely, extremely happy," she shouted. The tone in her voice betrayed no joy.
Then Nessa covered her face with her hands....
Amina's father Aslam, however, was released from police custody in Faizabad after a night of questioning, on grounds that he was not directly responsible.
Just before embarking on the long walk back to Gazon, he sat on a metal chair in a room in the police station, reflecting on all that had happened in the last several days.
Unlike the feelings of his wife Nessa, Aslam's anger at Amina had by now given way to sorrow.
"I feel so sad for her. She was so young," he said, as his eyes grew glassy with tears. "I really miss her now. . . . I will miss her voice, and our conversations in the evenings."
There was much he wished he could go back and change. "If only she had told me that she did not want to go back to her husband," he said. "I would have done something about it. I would have counseled her."
But he said he harbored no doubt that she deserved to die after she admitted to committing adultery.
"There was no option. This is what Islam commands us."
Not so. See my next reply/post
I bet you won't find this story on CAIR's website.
The sad fact is many who read and post here either don't control their children or know of people who don't. And yet, nothing is done about those people. All of you who haven't done so, should subsitute teach in a public school for a few times to see what is happening. At least these people have sex in private places.
Coming soon to a town near you...
It took two hours to stone this poor woman to death.
Islam offends me, Can i Nuke them with multiple missiles for hours? /sarc.
Islam apparently makes no provision for repentance and forgiveness. Apparently Mohammad did not die for their sins, and thereby, offer redemption. Such a shame Muslims believe this rot.
OUT OF LINE? Yes, I guess you could say that (Understatment)!!
If the Islamist ever got control of this (or most other western) country the number of "stonings" for adultery (regardless what the Bible says--and I'm Catholic) would make the Holocaust, pale in comparison.
"The sad fact is many who read and post here either don't control their children or know of people who don't. And yet, nothing is done about those people."
Sorry, my friend, but these two, were NOT children.
The article does not give her paramour's age,but she WAS 25 YEARS OLD.
And whether or not one agrees with her/their conduct, the punishment, does NOT fit the "crime!"
And this is the point most are apt to overlook.
What these two people engaged in was a violation of "religious" principles and teachings and as far as I know, ALL "civilized" cultures, have long-ago, decriminalized such conduct.
The Islamist (who want to take over control of the world) rule, based on the Sharia (a religious principle) and not on any secular legal construct as we (and the Western World) know it.
And that my friends, is VERY scary!!
The cult and ideology of Islam is evil and barbarous and must be destroyed.
Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.
Those who live by the cross....
Let's call them what they are, evil depraved monsters.
I have a hard time understanding a cult so terrible that they do not teach love for their children.
Even the parents of murderers in this country love their child and do not want to see that child killed. Yes we execute murderers after many years of appeals and I myself would pull the plug on some of them gladly.But I understand the feelings of those who love them and respect that feeling. Some people are too dangerous to be allowed to live, serial killers and such. Getting caught having sex doesnt qualify one for such an ugly death as this.
These Islamic people raise their kids to commit horrific acts such as suicide-murder and execute them for gettin a piece of tail. These people raise a girl-child from infancy and then murder them if they get raped.
I dont unbderstand people like this-----and I dont want to.
Should read, 'My oxymoron was so offended'.
If sharia was practiced in the inner-city communities in the United States among all those who allege to be muslim, there would be no muslims and this comment would be pointless.
Azim said Amina's hair was covered in a head scarf, and that she was crying in terror as nearly a hundred men gathered in a circle around her and began throwing small rocks at her head.
"I couldn't watch for more than a few minutes," Azim said. Instead, he said, he walked up to Amina's parents' house and waited with them in silence during the two hours it took to kill her.
The religion of PEACE AND TOLERANCE!
"Islamic dignity" is an oxymoron.
I always thought Shirley Jackson was visionary. Now I know her story "The Lottery" was predicting the future.
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