Remember Du’a public seminar in London — “On the 7th of April 2007 Du’a Khalil Aswad was brutally stoned to death in front of 2000 men, the killers included her uncle and some of her closest relatives in the Town of Bashiqa.”
— Somali Man Stoned to Death by Extremists for Adultery
— Bloomberg reports: “Somalia’s rebel Hisb-ul-Islam group had a man stoned to death for adultery in front of hundreds of people and a woman flogged for her relationship with him, Sheikh Osman Fidow, a security official for the group, said in an interview.”
— Somalia: Extremists Excute Two Men in Afgoye District
— RBC Radio: Mohammed Abubakar Ibrahim stoned to death for adultery, Sheik Osman Hassan Fidow said stoning based on “Islamic sharia law”
— “Adan Ahmed who was at the scene told RBC Radio that he was looking one of the excuted men (Abu Bakr Mohammed Ibrahim) screaming, with blood pouring from his head and chest.. he added ‘He died quickly after being hit by large pieces of rubble.’ ”
— “Ibrahim’s partner, a 15-year-old girl who did nor revealed her name, was punished with 100 lashes on her body because she is not married.”
On December 1, 2009, as groups concerned about the AIDS disease sought public awareness and prevention, the anti-freedom, extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir held its own protests in Indonesia rejecting condoms and AIDS prevention measures and demanding the creation of an extremist caliphate . AFP reports that “700 members from the Muslim Women of Hizbut Tahrir” were involved in the Indonesia protests. As AIDS continues to grow in Indonesia, Hizb ut-Tahrir is promoting an anti-condom campaign as part of its efforts to promote religious extremism in Indonesia and globally.
Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goals including ending democracy and freedom, and the promotion of an extremist caliphate, including calling for the “death penalty” for those “traitors” who leave Islam. U.S. President Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs Dalia Mogahed has joined Hizb ut-Tahrir in a public interview conducted by a supporter of the British Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.
World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Demonstrates Against Homosexuals, Calls for Global Supremacist Caliphate (AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
While AFP, MySinChew/AFP, and the Jakarta Globe have focused on Hizb ut-Tahrir’s (HT) rallies and comments regarding ending the use of condoms and enforcing Sharia law as a way to control AIDS risks, none of the mainstream media have noticed Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia’s web site report quoting Dr. Muhammad Usman and others at a Hizb ut-Tahrir event calling for “stoning to death” and “whip a hundred times” individuals as part of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s answers to the AIDS problems. The HT report also states condoms are ineffective because “whereas the pores of condoms was only able to hold the sperm, not the size of the HIV virus is much smaller.”
The Jakarta Globe reported that “Ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, members of the group Hizbut Tahrir took to the streets in several major cities, including Jakarta, Solo, Yogyakarta and Makassar in South Sulawesi. ‘We urge everybody to support the application of Shariah in an Islamic caliphate so that, God willing, all of us will be free from the threat of HIV/AIDS,’ Hizbut Tahrir spokeswoman Febrianti Abassuni said in a statement.” Calling “homosexuals the agents of immorality,” Hizb ut-Tahrir called for an end to programs providing condoms in Indonesia.
BBC reports that “AIDS activists say promoting condom use is a huge challenge in Indonesia as there is strong resistance from religious and conservative groups.” While AIDS in Indonesia grew predominantly from drug use, increasing growth is reportedly sexual based. BBC reports that “[r]ecent data shows over 18,000 people have the disease – and that number has jumped from last year.”
While Hizb ut-Tahrir and other groups seek to prevent condom distribution and use, AIDS has spread dramatically throughout Indonesia. AFP reports that “around 270,000 Indonesians are estimated to be infected with HIV, and AIDS has claimed about 8,700 lives in the Muslim-majority nation of 228 million people, according to the UNAIDS agency.”
In a separate report, BBC reports that in the United Kingdom, 60 percent of new AIDS cases are appearing among Muslims. In the BBC report, “According to Dr Shima Tariq, who has studied the transmission of HIV, more than half of newly diagnosed patients caught HIV through heterosexual sex, and two-thirds of them are of black African origin or descent. But most of this group are not Christian: six out of 10 are Muslim.”
A woman walks past by a sign advising people to wear Muslim attire at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh. A local lawmaker says a controverisial bill allowing Shariah-style stoning and caning has gone into effect in the province. (Photo: Heri Juanda, AP)
Yet another stoning in Somalia with a crowd of 200 watching – this is the second stoning in Somalia this month. This latest stoning of a woman on November 17, 2009 was done by the extremist group al-Shabab. BBC and other news services conflict over the age of the woman who was stoned to death (see reports below).
— BBC reports: “Somali woman stoned for adultery” — “A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people.”
— “A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.”
— “He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes.”
— “It is thought to be the second time a woman has been stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.”
— “The group controls large swathes of southern Somalia where they have imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law which has been unpopular with many Somalis.”
— “According to reports from a small village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to her waist.”
— “She was then stoned to death in front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.”
— “The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue.”
— “Under al-Shabab’s interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married – even a divorcee – who has an affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning to death.”
— “An unmarried person who has sex before marriage is liable to be given 100 lashes.”
— “BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says the stoning is at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over the last year.”
— “Earlier this month, a man was stoned to death for adultery in the port town of Merka, south of Mogadishu.”
— “His pregnant girlfriend was spared, until she gives birth.”
— “Last month, two men were stoned to death in Merka after being accused of spying.”
— “President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January.”
— “Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law would be too lenient.”
— “The country has not had a functioning national government for 18 years.”
— South Africa News 24/DPA reports: “Somali woman stoned to death” — “Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a 29-year-old married woman to death for adultery, the second such execution this month, officials said.”
— “Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, an al-Shabaab judge, also ordered the woman’s sexual partner, and unmarried man, to receive one hundred lashes.”
— “Hundreds of spectators watched the stoning late on Tuesday in the village of Eelbon, southern Somalia.”
— “Al-Shabaab and its ally Hizbul Islam are battling the weak central government and control much of south and central Somalia. They have been implementing strict sharia, or Islamic law, in the areas they control, ordering floggings and executions. They have also banned musical ringtones and dancing at weddings. An estimated 19 000 civilians have died since early 2007 in Somalia’s bloody insurgency…”
— Daily Nation reports “Somalia: Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery”:
— “Mogadishu — An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she was found guilty of adultery.”
— “The woman was taken to a square, her body half buried and then stoned.”
— “A crowd was present as well as officials of al-Shabaab, an Islamist movement that opposes the Transitional Federal Government and controls a large territory in Southern and Central Somalia.”
— “A young man, who was also caught in the same adulterous act, received 100 strokes of the cane.”
— “According to Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdurahman, a judge of the Islamic court who sentenced the woman to death and the man to whipping said the cases differed.”
— ” ‘The woman was had been married before and under Sharia (Islamic law) she is to be stoned to death upon proof,’ said Sheikh Abdurahman.”
— ” ‘The young man with no previous marriage experience is to receive 100 whips under the same law,’ he added.”
— “Last Friday, another Islamic court that falls under the control of al-Shabaab sentenced a young man to death by stoning in Marka town, 110 kilometres south of Mogadishu. He was found guilty of committing adultery following a case of alleged rape.”
— “At a football stadium facing the Indian Ocean, the condemned man was taken to a corner of the playground, his body half buried in dirt before youngsters started hitting him with stones.”
— “Before the execution, the clergymen who rule Marka town and surrounding areas announced that a woman who had also been sentenced for committing adultery was in custody, to be stoned.”
— “The woman is said to be pregnant.”
— “Al-Shabaab and Hizbu Islam, the Islamist groups that strongly oppose the TFG, generally enforce the severe punishments.”
— “In 2008, a teenage girl was accused of adultery in Kismayu, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu, sentenced by a court and stoned to death.”
— BBC: “Somali adulterer stoned to death” — “Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.”
— “Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.”
— “An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.”
— “Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital.”
— “This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year.”
— “Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court.”
— ” ‘He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving,’ an eyewitness told the BBC.”
— “The BBC’s Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after.”
— Jakarta Globe: “Stoning, Caning Are Now the Law in Aceh, Local Legislator Says”
— Jakarta Globe reports: “A controversial bill that includes a provision for the stoning to death of adulterers is now officially law, even without the signature of the Aceh governor, a local councilor said on Thursday.”
— “The draft of the Qanun Jinayat Code, a set of bylaws that replaces elements of the Criminal Code with Shariah provisions for Muslims, was endorsed by the Aceh Legislative Council on Sept. 14.”
— “The measures call for the stoning of adulterers and 100 lashes for anyone caught engaging in premarital sex, among its other punishments.”
A woman walks past by a sign advising people to wear Muslim attire at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh. A local lawmaker says a controverisial bill allowing Shariah-style stoning and caning has gone into effect in the province. (Photo: Heri Juanda, AP)
— Indonesia’s Aceh passes law on stoning to death
— AP reports: “Adulterers can be stoned to death and homosexuality is punishable by steep prison terms under a new law passed unanimously by lawmakers in Indonesia’s devoutly Muslim Aceh province Monday.”
— “The law, which reinforces the province’s already strict Islamic laws, is to go into effect within 30 days. Its passage comes two weeks before a new assembly led by the moderate Aceh Party is sworn in following a heavy defeat of conservative Muslim parties in local elections.”
— “Aceh, where Islam first arrived in Indonesia from Saudi Arabia centuries ago, enjoys semiautonomy from the central government. A long-running Islamic insurgency in the province ended in 2005 in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 130,000 there.”
— “A version of Islamic law, or Shariah, that had been introduced in Aceh in 2001 already bans gambling, drinking alcohol and makes it compulsory for women to wear headscarves. Dozens of public canings have been carried out by the local Shariah police against violators of that law”
— “… the most hotly disputed article was on adultery and states that offending married couples can be punished by a minimum of 100 lashings and a maximum of stoning to death.”
— “‘The stoning to death is the toughest punishment included in the (new) Shariah law,’ said Bahrom Rasjid, one of the drafters and a member of the United Development Party, after its passage.”
— “It also imposes severe prison terms for other behavior considered morally unacceptable, including homosexuality, which will be punishable by public lashings and more than eight years in prison.”
— “Aceh Vice Governor Muhamad Nazar said that even though his office opposed the clause on stoning to death it has no legal power to block it. “Whatever law is passed we have to enforce it,’ he said.”
— AFP report – Indonesia: Adulterers face stoning — “The law replaces elements of the civil code with sharia or Islamic law. It stipulates punishments of up to 100 lashes of the cane for an unmarried person who commits adultery and death by stoning for a married person.”
— AFP: “The Islamic code was introduced under a broad autonomy package granted by Indonesia’s central Government in 2001 to pacify the hardline Muslim region’s demand for independence.”
Iranian man to be stoned to death despite moratorium — Daily Telegraph reports:
— “An Iranian man convicted of adultery is to be stoned to death despite a moratorium being agreed by the judiciary last year.”
— “Naghi Ahmadi was sentenced to death by stoning in June last year in the northern city of Sari, after he visited a married woman’s home in the night while her husband was away working in another city, the Sarmayeh newspaper reported”
— “A year ago the judiciary said it would scrap the punishment in Iran’s new Islamic penal code”
