Posted on 08/27/2025 7:34:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.
Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code, but it is not illegal elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim majority country.
The men were part of a group of 10 who were flogged Tuesday at a park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh for a range of alleged crimes.
The pair were flogged separately with a rattan stick as a small crowd watched, according to an AFP journalist present.
Their initial sentences of 80 lashes each were reduced by four for four months spent in detention.
In April local sharia police found the two men together at a public toilet in the same park where they were later flogged, said Roslina A. Djalil, head of Banda Aceh sharia police’s law enforcement.
“A member of the public saw suspicious people and reported it,” Roslina said.
Amnesty International condemned the punishment.
“The criminalisation of same-sex conduct… has no place in a just and humane society,” Amnesty’s regional research director Montse Ferrer said in a statement.
Three women and five men were also flogged Tuesday after being found guilty of sex outside marriage, being in close proximity to members of the opposite sex, and online gambling.
Caning retains strong support among Aceh’s population as a common punishment for offences including drinking alcohol and adultery.
The region started using religious law after it was granted special autonomy in 2001 as Jakarta tried to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.
Oddly I support lashing with canes but not long sentences of which the taxpayer pays for. Not for this crime between consenting adults. What they do in bed is not my business so long as it does not effect me or my family.
76 lashes with a cane is a near death experience and the scars on your back are forever. I think it is more effective than years in prison to prevent a second act. Those 76 lashes should be reserved for those that prey on innocents, and not consenting adults.
They didn’t set them on fire or throw them from a tall building?
Oh. It’s a conservative province, is it? How come we never hear about things that happen in liberal provinces?
“ I wish we could have public floggings for car thieves, shoplifters, graphic “artists” who paint surfaces without permission, and other crimes where currently people don’t even get a slap on the wrist around here”
I’m with you on that 100%!
We are in Edinburgh, Scotland and it breaks my heart seeing all that crap all over the magnificent buildings. It’s a global scourge.
... a suitable response to the activities of many on the left and many in the media ...
As it should be, then make the transition off the top of a building.
Has anyone told the “Queers for Palastine”?
Different island.
Don’t get caught drunk in a whore house eating a ham sandwich either.
Europe has a massive graffiti problem. I saw it everywhere - even in the “nice” countries.
Were they yelling flog me flog me baby.
Surprised it wasn’t killed.
LOLOLOL 🤣🤣😂😃😄🤣🤣😅😜😜
(Amnesty International condemned the punishment.
Oh, look who popped back up to defend sodomy.)
I’m not surprised ...
They didn’t like being JUDGED when
they were actually being WARNED ⚠️⚠️⚠️
too but they wouldn’t repent of their Gay Pride Parade
They’re absolutely committed to their
cause - they will not stop 🛑 (most of them)
The men in the streets of Sodom and
Gomorrah didn’t even think about
repenting - they only said that they
would do WORSE to Lot than what they
had planned for the two angels of God
And they planned to gang-rape them
(as if that would have been allowed
to happen - absolutely wouldn’t)
Genesis 19:4-11
King James Version
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, AND HE WILL NEEDS BE A JUDGE: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019%3A4-11&version=KJV
People who want to further this agenda
are flying in the face of Almighty God
I pray 🙏🛐✝️🙏 that they
Read, Learn and Repent of this Abomination
2nd Peter 2:6-9
New King James Version
6 AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, condemned them to destruction, MAKING THEM AN EXAMPLE to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was OPPRESSED BY THE FILTHY CONDUCT OF THE WICKED
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, TORMENTED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL from day to day BY SEEING AND HEARING THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS)—
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A6-9&version=NKJV
“Clearly we should go to war with them over this. </Neocons>”
Love it, but you’re being to kind to the Neocons - they’ll go to war if you don’t let their Groomers into your country.
That too. They’ll use anything for an excuse.
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