[ April 19, 2024 ]
We are constantly admonished that Indonesia is an example of how a Muslim country can be modern, moderate, pluralistic, tolerant, and democratic. But the Indonesian government has implemented sharia in an entire province, Aceh, and it is just as brutal, draconian, and inhumane there as it has been everywhere else it has been implemented. The non-Muslims are violently oppressed and made to conform to sharia norms, as we see here. Note also that over a thousand people gathered to watch and jeer at the victims as they were whipped. Savages.
“Amorous couples, sex workers whipped for breaking Islamic [sic],” Vanguard, April 20, 2018:
A group of amorous couples and accused sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia’s Aceh Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors.
Story continues below advertisementMore than a thousand people, including dozens of tourists from neighbouring Malaysia, jeered and screamed abuse at the group of three men and five women as they were flogged on a stage outside a mosque in the capital Banda Aceh.
Some snapped pictures as a hooded figure rained down lashes from a rattan cane on their backs, with each getting between 11 and 22 strokes.
The couples were whipped for showing affection in public, while two of the women were suspected sex workers, officials said.
Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law.
Flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences — from gambling, to drinking alcohol to having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
The conservative region on the northern tip of Sumatra island passed a regulation a week ago that would see criminals whipped only behind prison walls.
It was not clear when the new rule would come into effect.
The move was in response to a wave of international criticism over the practice, which has included flogging members of the vulnerable LGBT community and, in some cases, non-Muslims.
Non-Muslims can usually choose whether or not to be punished under religious law and sometimes opt for a painful flogging to avoid a long court process and jail term.
Rights groups have derided the punishment as cruel and last year Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo called for an end to public whippings in Aceh.
Around 98 percent of the province’s five million residents are Muslims, subject to religious law, including the public whippings which came into practice around 2005.
Under the new rules, caning cannot be recorded anymore and only journalists and adults can witness the punishment inside prisons. Children have often been present at public canings.
Some conservative groups are protesting against the end of public whippings, saying it has a strong deterrent effect on crime.
“Today’s flogging is evidence that (the government) and our people are still committed to implementing Islamic law,” said Banda Aceh’s deputy mayor Zainal Arifin.“
This is not only about physical punishment for violators, but also to set an example for members of the public who witness the flogging directly or watch it on social media.”…
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11 Comments
D
5 years ago
Hearts of Darkness.
5 years ago
The Indonesians will brutally whip someone for being “amorous”. What is that –
holding hands or canoodling? In my mind – where’s the harm in that – especially
now that Spring is starting to burst all over the USA.
And yet, under Sharia Law, rape – a terrible thing to do to someone – is okay.
So there are no rapists being flogged. Only “amorous couples” and sex
workers. And no customers of the sex workers being flogged either.
Male dick-whipping of all females and humiliating dhimmitude of all non-
Muslims is the heart of Islam.
5 years ago
To paraphrase George Orwell: Islum the boot heel stamping down on the face of humanity forever.
5 years ago
….from gambling, to drinking alcohol to having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
I was going to laugh because I thought it said “having gassy sex” but I see it says GAY sex. Hey, come to think about it, wouldn’t that be the same thing?? 😉
5 years ago
way better than stoned to death- moderates all
5 years ago
How brutal and primitive, Islam’s laws mean the regression of all human civilization!
5 years ago
Public floggings are entertainment for the “moderate” muslums of Indonesiastain.
5 years ago
This is islam, this is the democrat concept of what America should be like.
5 years ago
From the early beginnings of the United States we had corporal punishment and was still done upto around world war 2 in prisons. . So it was not an uncommon thing. . I don’t like sharia law .
I think if I were going to have a choice between jail time and a flogging I would take the flogging. Or I think I would as I might wish I had not after the flogging. .
5 years ago
unmarried couples are not allowed to get to know each other or have sex as it reduces chance for the old from getting young virgin girls as “wife” under forced marriage.
They are equal opportunity killers. They don’t even spare christian aid workers in America who help settle them http://bit.ly/2rr9tGh
No other immigrant groups are so ungrateful as jihadis.
5 years ago
Moderate muslims found in the wild at last
