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  • Indonesia's Aceh whips amorous couples (sharia law, liberals have no idea what is in store for them)

    03/20/2019 9:24:35 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 11 replies
    Yahoo.com ^ | 3/20/2019
    A group of unmarried couples were whipped in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday after they were caught behaving amorously -- a crime under the conservative region's Islamic law. Flogging is common for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol and having gay sex. It is the only province in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law. The five couples flogged Thursday received between four and 22 strokes from a rattan cane outside a mosque in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, after they served several months in prison. Religious...