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A killing commanded by Islamic law - (not for the faint hearted)
JIHADWATCH.ORG ^ | MAY 6, 2005 | ROBERT

Posted on 06/01/2005 10:12:48 PM PDT by CHARLITE

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....

Soon Amina's father, the elders and a crowd of villagers had gathered outside. Mohammad unlocked the chain and flung open his front door. At the back of the room sat his son, Karim, on a floor cushion.

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."...

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."


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"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease." --Thomas Jefferson
1 posted on 06/01/2005 10:12:49 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: jan in Colorado; CyberAnt; AmericanArchConservative; Travis McGee; EagleUSA; writer33; Nam Vet; ...
For your interest.

Char

2 posted on 06/01/2005 10:14:07 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Why do we permit seditious, hateful messages to be shouted from muslim pulpits in America?)
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To: Marauder
For your interest.

Char

3 posted on 06/01/2005 10:15:10 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Why do we permit seditious, hateful messages to be shouted from muslim pulpits in America?)
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To: CHARLITE

Diversity and tolerance somewhat antithetical to TJ eh?


4 posted on 06/01/2005 10:17:45 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Taglines often reveal a lot about the inner person...)
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To: CHARLITE

Absolute barbarians.


5 posted on 06/01/2005 10:19:47 PM PDT by headstamp
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To: CHARLITE

ROP bump


6 posted on 06/01/2005 10:21:22 PM PDT by dcwusmc ("The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: CHARLITE

Thanks for the ping!


7 posted on 06/01/2005 10:21:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: CHARLITE
Sickening. Yet I have bumped into more than one Freeper in my time who insists that adultery is a high-ranking crime, just below murder and theft. Many other people think that one party's adultery forfeits their claim to their (otherwise) legitimate share of marital property.

Adultery is clearly wrong, and anyone who consider punishing a cheating spouse with anything more harsh than a stern reprimand and a well deserved abandonment is a nutbag, plain and simple.
8 posted on 06/01/2005 10:21:57 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: CHARLITE

... and, meanwhile: liberals and leftists everywhere are shrieking like hysterical schoolgirls over the possibility that -- somewhere; somehow -- a Koran may end up being "desecrated."


9 posted on 06/01/2005 10:24:28 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
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To: CHARLITE

"There was no option. This is what Islam commands us."


Islam also commands that the infidel be 'smote' on the neck, have his/her arms and legs on opposite sides hacked off, be bound and thrown into the fire, and when the time comes they think they can get away with it in the West (just as they are doing right now in the Sudan,) they will try to do it to you and I, yours and mine.


10 posted on 06/01/2005 10:32:19 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Islam. Understand Evil. Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD link My Page.)
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To: CHARLITE


Islam is a thousand times more evil, than anything these sanctimonious sonovabitches rant against.


11 posted on 06/01/2005 10:33:00 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Sorry George, Hillary and Bill will give up their absolute power, only when it is pried from their)
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To: CHARLITE
Then they watched Yousaf's turban slowly vanish over a mountain path and, along with it, Amina's last hope.

FCUL, I spat my coffee out reading that! As sad as the whole sorry saga is.

12 posted on 06/01/2005 10:38:24 PM PDT by Critical Bill
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To: F.J. Mitchell
"Islam is a thousand times more evil.."

If one believes that there truly is a "devil," then this must be the manifestation of the devil, in millions of human beings who are clearly possessed, in the most evil sense of the term.

Char

13 posted on 06/01/2005 10:39:05 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Why do we permit seditious, hateful messages to be shouted from muslim pulpits in America?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Precisely.

No shortage of outrage over the (alleged) flushing of a Koran or two by U.S. troops, but not a peep about the murder of countless innocents by barbarian cultists.

14 posted on 06/01/2005 10:39:34 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
. and, meanwhile: liberals and leftists everywhere are shrieking like hysterical schoolgirls over the possibility that -- somewhere; somehow -- a Koran may end up being "desecrated."

these idiot gay-loving liberals don't understand that if these wild-eyed islamic fanatics ever control the world, their stupid butts will be FIRST to be minus a head.

15 posted on 06/01/2005 10:39:43 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: CHARLITE

Public Stoning - coming to an American neighborhood near you in the next 30 years.


16 posted on 06/01/2005 10:40:22 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: CHARLITE
Barbaric savages


17 posted on 06/01/2005 10:45:59 PM PDT by Critical Bill
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To: Critical Bill
Stoning video

(From the website "Apostates of Islam")

18 posted on 06/01/2005 10:49:45 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: CHARLITE

A Kodak Moment

20 posted on 06/01/2005 10:55:50 PM PDT by BigFinn
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