Portrait of a Stoning

jessicamshannon · #1 ● 01-08-2018, 04:50 PM

13-12-2009

Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, is stoned to death by members of Hizbul Islam, a group of Somali Islamist insurgents in Afgooye, 30 km from the capital Mogadishu, on 13 December. Ibrahim had been found guilty of adultery by a local Sharia court. In February, the president of a transitional government had agreed to the introduction of Sharia law in Somalia, in order to defuse clashes between the government and local clan-based militia.

Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until they die. No individual among the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Often slower than other forms of execution, stoning within the context of contemporary Western culture is considered a form of execution by torture.

Stoning is called rajm (Arabic: رجم) in Islamic literature, and is a practice found in the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, northern Nigeria, Aceh Province of Indonesia, Afghanistan, and tribal parts of Pakistan, like northwest Kurram Valley and the northwest Khwezai-Baezai region. In some countries, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, stoning has been declared illegal by the state, but is practiced extrajudicially. In several others, people have been sentenced to death by stoning, but the sentence has not been carried out. In modern times, allegations of stoning are politically sensitive; the government of Iran, for example, describes allegations of stoning as political propaganda.

Kelseecat65 · #2 ● 01-08-2018, 04:57 PM

Adultry...damn. Not saying cheating is OK, but that is a bit harsh.

Stevieaitch · #3 ● 01-08-2018, 05:19 PM

Thank fuck somebody stoned that twat mo farrah. Annoying prick

philovan · #4 ● 01-08-2018, 06:04 PM

As Bob Dylan famously said: "Everybody must get stoned."

William May · #5 ● 01-08-2018, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Kelseecat65 ↗

Adultry...damn. Not saying cheating is OK, but that is a bit harsh.

On top of being brutal, it's nobody else's business. If I lived over there and someone accused me of a religious crime, I would sneak up on them in the dark and kill them. And whatever mullah was involved.