Posted on 10/22/2004 6:33:50 AM PDT by Ginifer
Two Nigerian women – one a teenager – have been sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted o adultery.
The sentences, passed down in Nigeria’s Bauchi state, are the first of their kind in over a year in the mainly Muslim north, where 12 states have introduced controversial Islamic Shariah criminal codes since 1999.
One of the two women, 18-year-old Hajara Ibrahim, is due to appeal on Monday, said Bunmi Dipo-Salami of a Baobab, a group of human rights lawyers that is funding lawyers for her defence.
Ibrahim was convicted for having sex outside marriage, but Dipo-Salami said the case was being appealed on the basis that her first marriage had never been consummated. Ibrahim was promised in matrimony to a man while still a minor, and later lived with him for only a short time, she said.
The other woman, 25-year-old Daso Adamu, was convicted to death by stoning in September 15. She says she was made pregnant by one of her two ex-husbands.
Adamu was initially imprisoned along with her baby of less than six months, before being released on bail this week after her first appeal hearing. Her case was adjourned until November 3.
Controversy over the introduction of Shariah criminal law in Nigeria in 1999 and 2000 sparked clashes in which thousands were killed, both in the north and the majority-Christian south.
No men have been convicted of adultery in past death-by-stoning cases, as Shariah courts found there was insufficient evidence to prove they had sex with the women.
Under Shariah law, men can only be convicted on the basis of witness statements, while pregnancy is considered sufficient evidence to convict women.
Grrrrrr...
Okay. Wher are the feminists? Oh. That's right. at their dermatologists getting fruit-acid facials then on to their massage appointment, to help them cope with the exhausting work of stumping for John F'in Kerry.
And the men involved will be.....what? Thought so.
"Stoning" seems like a humane way to die. Just keep drinking Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo until you succumb. Oh, wait a minute...
So much for the religion of peace.
Typical hypocrisy of a dangerous religion
Sounds like Oprah and Cameron Diaz need to get down there quick.
Naturally the men didn't have a clue that anything had happened until it was all over with.
Dylan said it best. (And I would not feel so all alone...)
Amnesty, where are you?
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BETTER GET DOWN THERE FAST!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not a religion. It's a sick cult.
Don't take this wrong, but I actually can't wait until something like this happens up here.
We were nuts enough to allow these people to operate under Sharia law (or whatever the heck you call it) to a certain degree.
I suppose I would be a racist if I suggested that people who want to live under these laws STAY IN THEIR MUSLIM COUNTRIES, LIVE THE WAY YOU WANT AND LEAVE US ALONE.
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The socialists think they can use and control the cult of death. Unfortunately for the socialists, this time they are the SA.
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
Of course, having sex during menses is also penalized by death. See Lev 20:18.
Ah yes -- isn't "multiculturism...." beautiful? NOT!
The notion that all cultures have something positive to offer gives suburban liberals the warm fuzzies, but the problem is liberals are too stupid to understand that some cultures are back in the Stone Age (no pun intended) and should be vigorously protested.
I agree with this one. The reason:
Adulterers break up families...man's first government. It sure would bring back the "sanctity of marriage".
How many people have been killed by a ticked-off spouse because one of them was unfaithful?
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