Posted on 02/27/2025 3:49:23 AM PST by Morgana
Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.
While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation -, it is outlawed in the conservative Aceh province, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code.
The flogging began before midday on Thursday at a park in provincial capital Banda Aceh, with one man accused of instigating the relationship lashed 82 times and the second man 77 times.
Both were caned with a rattan stick as dozens watched on, according to witnesses.
The men's sentences were reduced by three lashes for three months spent in detention.
In November, locals raided a rented room in Banda Aceh and found the two men - both students at a local university - together.
They were taken to sharia police for the alleged crime of sexual relations.
Rights advocates slammed the punishment as part of a wider trend of discrimination against LGBTQ people in the country.
'The intimidation, discrimination and abuses against LGBTQ individuals in Aceh are like a bottomless well,' Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said.
'The Aceh government should learn from these mistakes and review their Islamic criminal code.'
Amnesty International called the punishment a 'horrifying act of discrimination' against the two men.
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Soon to be Britain.
I was thing ...... and get the stick.🤣🤣🤣
That’s too bad.
Do gays know the left wants to mass import Muslims?
Starmer should be worried. He sets off gaydar around the world.
In San Francisco, you got to pay good money for such treatment!
In that country it’s well known about the sharia laws in affect. Why these two would risk getting caught makes me think they are not just gay, but stupid as well. In any case, the punishment is barbaric. Sharia law and similar ones are stone age cruel, what they do to young women is just sick.
“Put another faggot on the fire!” ( from movie Rustler’s Rhapsody)
Gay = a depraved, degenerate pedophile.
/spit
Count your blessings.
They were not tossed off the top of a tall building, nor where they hung from a construction crane.
It seems that muslims need a very strict government to maintain a peaceful civilization.
Dictatorships with severe punishments is the norm for muslims.
Biden voters that fled the country with TDS?
They probably enjoyed it
Ha ha.
The religion of hate.
All hate.
All the time.
Hate at a rate.
Women are hated even more.
Music? Hate it.
Art? Hate it.
Progress? Hate it.
No wonder leftists love it, since they also embrace hate.
I have to say, when officials are raiding rooms to find people hooking up.......that’s when things go a little to far. I’m somewhat curious how they knew to raid the room.
I will wait for the Squad to go on TV can call this out.
There are aspects of Muslims I rather like.
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