In Kismayo, in lawless Somalia a group of men who hide behind the beautiful and peaceful religion of Islam stoned young Somali women to death. Why? Because she had sex. That is it. That was the alleged crime. I am sure that some of these fanatics were ex-militia men who raped many innocent women before. They said she confessed to it and but when she was dragged to the spot or the bloody spectacle. She was crying and screaming. They tied her hands and legs and stormed her with stones until she died. One would have to ask?
Even if they want to kill someone and implement their perversion of Islam, can’t they use bullets? We must ask ourselves is this really what our religion dictates or just a misogynistic interpretation of the Shariah by fanatics, by charlatans, by warlords? Why is it women who have to be sacrificed and punished first? how many evil men commit acts of crime daily in that town? countless! These barbaric men are corrupt and hide behind religion. They know no Islam and not representative of the religion. They are thugs, ex-warlords and roadblock bosses. We all know them. They were clan militias who now call themselves Islamic militants. It’s a ploy to usurp power and scare people. Stoning a human being to death in this age is incomprehensible and inhumane. No religion or GOD condones or commands such act of barbarism.Isn’t GOD merciful and compassionate? How could they miss that? isn’t religion supposed to nourish the spirit and purify the soul? these fanatics have no spirit or soul. they are blood-thirsty and cruel.They work for the devil and not Islam or GOD. The men who did this are manifestation of the diabolical cruelty of men. – my two cents.
Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery
KISMAYU, SOMALIA — Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery in the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.
The 23-year-old woman was executed late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August, witnesses said.
Guards opened fire when a relative ran forward, killing a child, they said.
“A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning,” one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.
“We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands. A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child.”
The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006. Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.
As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.
Relatives of the woman executed in Kismayu, whom they named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, said she was unfairly treated.
“The stoning was totally irreligious and illogical,” said her 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.”
Islamist leaders at the execution said the woman had breached Islamic law. They promised to punish the guard who had shot the child in the melee around the execution.
“We apologize for killing the child. And we promise we shall bring the one who opened fire before the courts and deal with him accordingly,” one unnamed Islamist leader told the crowd.
