Nigerian court condemns women to death by stoning

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/10/12/stoning.reut/

"BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Islamic courts in Nigeria sentenced two women to death by stoning for having sex out of wedlock, but two men whom they said they slept with were acquitted for lack of evidence, authorities said Tuesday.

Both sentences, which were passed within the last month in the northern state of Bauchi, have to be confirmed by the state governor before being carried out, and they are open to appeal.

Nobody has been lawfully stoned to death in Nigeria since 12 northern states introduced Islamic Sharia law in 2000, because all such sentences have been overturned on appeal.

Hajara Ibrahim, a 29-year-old woman, was sentenced on October 5 by an Islamic Sharia court in the Tafawa Balewa area of the state, having confessed to having sex with 35-year-old Dauda Sani and becoming pregnant, the court said in a statement.

"The court has however handed the woman convict to her guardian to take care of her until she delivers the baby before the sentence will be executed by stoning her to death according to the provisions of the Sharia penal code," the court said."


Amina Lawal was saved by the outcry of the outside world to this horrible human rights violation. Let's do what we can to help these women!

[quaoar]

1. Nigeria is rapidly becoming a pariah state

Descending into chaos and barbarism.

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Ah yes, religion: the true expression of humanity

We suck. For all our altruism, creativity, empathy and joy, we still suck. Mercifully, there's religion around to remind us of our failings.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Buried up to there neck and ublicky bludgened to death with rocks

very nice

[MrPrax]

4. Stoned for Adultery is way too harsh...

If the US invaded Nigeria, then they could bring them up to the standards of 23 US states like Virginia...

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The Axis of Bedroom Interference
Elisabeth Eaves

Europeans have been having a collective fit of the heebie-jeebies over the prospect of Turkey joining the European Union, the 25-nation club that invented the 35-hour work week and topless sunbathing.
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Sharia may not be getting any traction in Brussels, but it’s alive and well in Virginia and the 23 other states that ban adultery. In August, 66-year-old John Bushey Jr. was tried and found guilty of adultery in Luray, Va. He accepted 20 hours of community service as punishment, as well as much embarrassment in the highly-publicized case. Johnathan Turley’s Washington Post piece sums it up.

In addition to the 24 states that punish adultery, 10 states, including Virginia, have anti-fornication statutes that prohibit sex before marriage. Last year it looked like a great coup had been won in terms of individual liberties, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy statutes in Lawrence v. Texas. In doing so, it also overruled Bowers v. Hardwick, a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that cited moral disapproval as a legitimate reason for states to regulate intimate behavior.

The United States’ theocratic proclivities, obviously, would keep it out of any club made up of secular, capitalist democracies. Not that the current U.S. leadership would care.

http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200442#934

We Envy Your Freedom!!

[saigon68]

5. Certain Churches want the Govt out of their clergy's private affairs