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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Different worlds



Here in California we are currently waging a heated debate over Prop 8 and things get pretty ugly by our standards. The effort to preserve the standard of heterosexual marriage is considered hateful, bigoted, and discriminatory. Both sides of the issue feel the other side is trying to deteriorate our society.
I came across the story below and couldn`t help but contrast the two situations. If Sharia law demands this penalty for adultery I don`t even want to know what they would have to say about gay marriage.



Stoned woman 'screamed for her life'," from Reuters, October 29:
Kismayu - Relatives of a Somali woman who was publicly stoned to death by Islamists have reacted with fury.
Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, 23, was stoned to death after being accused of adultery, witnesses said. It was the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.
"The stoning was totally irreligious and illogical," said Dhuhulow's sister, who asked not to be named.
"Islam does not execute a woman for adultery unless four witnesses and the man with whom she committed sex are brought forward publicly," she said.
Dhuhulow was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in a square of this southern port, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.
"A woman in a green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning," one resident, Abdullahi Aden, said.
"We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcibly bound, legs and hands. A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child."
Stones were hurled at Dhuhulow's head, and the woman was brought out of the hole three times to see if she had died.

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