Somalia: Islamist courts flog teens (40 lashes for potsmoking, other crimes)

News 24 (South Africa) ^ | July 8, 2006

[Stoat]

Islamist courts flog teens
08/07/2006 21:03  - (SA)  

 

Jowhar - Somali Islamic courts punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes in public each on Saturday, after they confessed to "un-Islamic behaviour", including smoking marijuana, pretending to be Islamic militia, violence and looting.

The youths were lined up on open ground in the town of Jowhar, about 90km northwest of the capital, and whipped under the supervision of Islamic courts officials, which have begun to implement Sharia law.

The event was witnessed by an AFP correspondent.

The court, chaired by a hard-line panel of sheikhs, said the teenagers were convicted after four confessed to smoking marijuana, four admitted to looting and destroying government buildings, and three acknowledged violence and that they had pretended to be Islamic court officials to extort the public.

"This is the start of a new era and we will continue to carry out the Sharia in Jowhar town and all parts of the Middle Shabelle region. We do not have any reverse gear.

"It is our responsibility to make sure Sharia laws are respected," said Sheikh Mohamoud Jiliale, an official of the Jowhar Islamic tribunal.

Wedding party raided

Officials said the tribunals, which have vowed to restore law and order in the shattered country, would ensure Sharia law prevails.

Islamists imposed Sharia law in Jowhar on June 19, after they routed United States-backed warlords from the capital and large swathes of southern Somalia.

On Friday, around 20 Islamic militiamen raided a wedding party in Mogadishu, flogged a woman and confiscated musical instruments as they enforced a ban on band music in public ceremonies.

On Wednesday, a senior cleric announced that any Somali Muslim who failed to perform daily prayers would be killed.

Gunmen shot and killed two people in central Somalia early this week while quelling a protest against a ban on watching the soccer World Cup at a local cinema.

[Stoat]

Islamists imposed Sharia law in Jowhar on June 19, after they routed United States-backed warlords from the capital and large swathes of southern Somalia.

HUH????  The USA was backing the Somali warlords?  This is news to me.

On Wednesday, a senior cleric announced that any Somali Muslim who failed to perform daily prayers would be killed.

The Religion Of Peace strikes again.

[Cinnamon]

"un-Islamic behaviour", including smoking marijuana, pretending to be Islamic militia, violence and looting."

could this be a precendent to condemining Islamic militants as un-islamic? *puts down bong* and looks up at the starred sky..

[TomGuy]

punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes

They are lucky. Had they been watching the World Cup game on a television, they might have been executed.

2 Somalis killed for watching World Cup (nightmare of Taliban regime revives in Somalia)

Posted by Wiz On News/Activism 07/05/2006 12:53:06 PM CDT · 36 replies · 992+ views Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2006 Jul 6 | Salad Duhul MOGADISHU, Somalia - Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday. The hard-line Muslim fighters, who have banned watching television, opened fire after a crowd of teenagers defied their orders to leave a hall where a businessman was showing Tuesday's Germany-Italy match on satellite television, according to Shabelle Radio, an independent local station. It said the businessman and a teenage girl were killed. Hard-line Muslim fighters, who wrested control of the Somali capital from warlords in June, have forbidden people from watching television...

[Stoat]

Agreed, they got off easy. Perhaps it was because they were teenagers, although if my fuzzy recollection serves, wasn't 50 lashes regarded as a death sentence for a man in the Old British Navy?

[Calusa]

punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes in public

Muffled-sigh-.

[Sender]

It depends on the definition of lashes. Could be a stinging pain, could be a bleeding wound. Of course, we put pot smokers in prison for years.

[VRWC For Truth]

Better call the ACLU.

[MissouriConservative]

For the life of me I can't understand how people can still be living in the 12th century. Or more questioning....how can the people they "rule" allow it to happen?

[Stoat]

Or more questioning....how can the people they "rule" allow it to happen?

Not having a Second Amendment is part of the reason.

[Stoat]

It depends on the definition of lashes

Very true.  I remember a few years ago there was a HUGE collective hissy-fit throughout the MSM about this runt-twit who perpetrated some fairly minor crime in Singapore and was sentenced to just a few "lashes".....he was on Oprah and everything....all of the liberals were moaning and crying over this horribly unjust and barbaric sentence being handed down to this "sweet young boy".   It turns out that in Singapore, "lashes" are administered by hitting the criminal with a small, short bamboo stick....only a few minor welts were left on the child and it turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Truly a far cry from a punishment in the old British sailing Navy, where lashes were administered via a true bullwhip and a single lash would lay your back open down to the muscle.

[Khepera]

I guess the same way you would if you had to go up against a large organized armed force.

You wouldnt know who you could trust as most all of your neighbors could be too scared or (in trying to find favor) may turn you in. It would be very difficult to organize a reactionary force to combat the better equiped and organized opressive forces.

You would nave to go it pretty much alone against them. Just like trying to fight our army and police forces. Wo do you think would win?

[cpdiii]

For the life of me I can't understand how people can still be living in the 12th century. Or more questioning....how can the people they "rule" allow it to happen?

They do not have the second amendment!

[Dead Dog]

Ban Kat, I triple deaddog dare them!

[BunnySlippers]

Be careful what you wish for ...

[Dallas59]

Well....I can understand flogging for Pot smoking....

[NinoFan]

Given the Islamofascists' record, I would put my money on the most painful and brutal of the methods.

[Stoat]

Well....I can understand flogging for Pot smoking....

<< "Handing Dallas59 a stylish and fashionable flame-resistant suit and quietly moving over to the other side of the room"

[Texasforever]

They are only allowed to smoke pot before blowing up a bus.

[NinoFan]

On Wednesday, a senior cleric announced that any Somali Muslim who failed to perform daily prayers would be killed.

Any religion that mandates this kind of thing is pure evil.

[Stoat]

Ban Kat, I triple deaddog dare them!
 

Huh?  "scratching furry stoat head in befuddlement"

Are the Islamofascists against chocolate as well?