Posted on 01/31/2019 1:46:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A young couple in Indonesia’s Aceh province were whipped on Thursday after they were caught cuddling in public – a crime under the conservative region’s Islamic law.
Hundreds of spectators watched as an 18-year-old university student and her boyfriend, also 18, were whipped 17 times each outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital.
Flogging is used as punishment for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
A 35-year-old man was also flogged with a rattan cane for being intimate with a woman, aged 40, in a local grocery store.
All four had served several months in prison before the punishment.
On Thursday, the 40-year-old woman pleaded to be caned in an apparent attempt to get out of jail immediately, but a medical team postponed her flogging after they deemed her physically unfit.
Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that imposes Islamic law.
“People outside of Aceh who think Islamic sharia (law) is cruel can now see that it is actually very tolerant and humane,” said Banda Aceh deputy mayor Zainal Arifin.
In December, two men caught having sex with underage girls were whipped 100 times each.
Rights groups condemn public caning as cruel, and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has called for it to end.
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1. Bali has lots of Hindus and caters to tourism, so it is much more tolerant than most of Muslim-dominated Indonesia
2. Shiit Law (as I call it) .. is HORRIBLE!
Yes, it tries to uphold some (very very very very very very very) strict moral standards
we could possibly discuss some of those standards,
BUT its enorcement/punishment is frequently SAVAGE, CRUEL, HORRID! sickening...
2.
I was in Bali too a few years ago. I loved it but Bali isn’t Indonesia. Well not really. You just have to look Bali’s Muslim population vs the rest of Indonesia’s.
I avoid any Islamic country as a destination.
I would avoid it just on general principles.
Odd how democrats seem to want to bring it here.
Dont let muslims into your country.
Get the muslims in your county, out of your country.
>>As the English used to say, “Bloody hell!”<<
Not uncommon even today in some areas.
9. Always remember that “he who is without sin, cast the first stone” is not a Muslim principle. All those who caused this couple to be caned for sexual “sin” are probably guilty of the same action or worse.
I thought about that when I looked at the crowd gathered to watch them caned.
SICK! SICK! SICK! And, notice not a single woman in the crowd as the men take photos. SICK!
I'm still trying to rationalize how Islamists can be so cruel. Yeah, I know, it's the dedication to their god. I can't seem to understand what they do with emotions like compassion, empathy, sympathy, etc. How does a person bury those natural tendencies?
Bali is mostly Hindu, not Moslem. So it’d be okay.
Bali is mostly Hindu, not Moslem.
Considering the Muslim proclivity for child brides,one can't help but wonder what they consider, "underage"...
Or -- was it for "getting caught"?
Yes but the nuns volunteered and chose the life. And lived that life among the common culture. And gave their lives to others.
The women are in the stairwell at the back of the crowd of men. They seem to be enjoying it just as much as the creepers in the front. Sick! is right.
Libs spent decades shaming nuns into ditching
the habit
They bullied Aunt Jemima into dumping her
shmatta
Now they want womyn to disrespect themselves and
wear hijabs
Buncha dopes
The Handmaidens tale is true. She just got the religion wrong.
Yes.
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