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| Sep 25th, 2003 01:50 PM | |
| FS |
Pay no attention to him, he's being despicable because a) he enjoys being the antagonist no matter what the cause, 2) he is wholly incapable of considering another person's feelings and mindset unless that mindset is being poured into his ear by someone who blames 'other people' for all of life's vague troubles and d) he's a mook. That being said, I was very happy to hear about this news, though it seems she got off because of a technicality, not because her punishment was seem as needlessly cruel. She got off, but the next person might not be so lucky. |
| Sep 25th, 2003 01:22 PM | |
| Zhukov | I'm pretty sure Vince let that one slip on purpose. :/ |
| Sep 25th, 2003 01:18 PM | |
| mburbank |
Wait! I remeber what Jesus said! "Lets cast stones." |
| Sep 25th, 2003 12:26 PM | |
| Jeanette X |
Woo hoo!
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| Sep 25th, 2003 10:40 AM | |
| mburbank |
So you're pro burrying women up to their necks and throwing rocks at their heads until they die, then? Or are you just tolerant of it? Or maybe I'm just overreacting, and all you mean is that Ilsamic Sharia law has it's points as a moral system, or it would, if it were adminstered by catholics. I could have sworn Jesus had something to say about stoning a woman for adultery, but I can't for the life of me recall what it was. Oh, well, it probably wasn'y very importnat. Jesus said all kinds of weird, pussy shit. I mean, as long as you believe in him, it's hardly important what he said. |
| Sep 25th, 2003 10:36 AM | |
| Daphne |
you think adultery is a bigger sin than MURDER? Stop being dumb on purpose. |
| Sep 25th, 2003 10:32 AM | |
| VinceZeb |
Yeah, because adultery is something that is good for everyone.
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| Sep 25th, 2003 10:30 AM | |
| Zhukov |
Thank Allah that I sent all those e-mails. I am sure that there were a a few more stonings that we didn't hear about since she was sentenced, too. |
| Sep 25th, 2003 10:25 AM | |
| Daphne | it's really upsetting that we live in a world where this still happens. I'm glad she got off, though. |
| Sep 25th, 2003 09:53 AM | |
| mburbank |
Amina Lawal Freed! Victory for anti-stoning-to-death rights! Thought you'd all like to hear this news. Woman sentenced to stoning freed. Thankfully, this woman will not die. Unfortunately, the Nigerian sharia law against adultery and it's punishment of death by stoning still stand. KATSINA, Nigeria (CNN) -- An appeals court has freed a Nigerian mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. The Shariah Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that Amina Lawal's conviction was invalid because she was already pregnant when harsh Islamic Shariah law was implemented in her home province. The 31-year-old, who was in court with her baby, Wassila, has been appealing the death sentence for two years. "It is the view of this court that the judgment of the Upper Shariah Court, Funtua, was very wrong and the appeal of Amina Lawal is hereby discharged and acquitted," judge Ibrahim Maiangwa said. Shariah law, based on the teachings in the Quran, Islam's holy book, is practiced in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states. Lawal's case had become the focus of human rights groups around the world who were outraged at the sentence that Lawal should be buried up to her neck and then have stones thrown at her head until she was dead. Had the court not overturned the verdict, Lawal would still have had two appeals left, one to a Nigerian federal court and a final appeal to Nigeria's Supreme Court. Neither of those courts is governed by Shariah law. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo had said if Lawal's case reached the Supreme Court, he would make sure it was overturned. Lawal was convicted and sentenced in March 2002 after giving birth to a baby girl more than nine months after divorcing. Under the strict Shariah law, pregnancy outside marriage constitutes sufficient evidence for a woman to be convicted of adultery. A court stayed her execution for two years to allow her to care for her baby. "This is all I have to live for right now," Lawal said before the hearing. "My child means everything to me." Lawal lives with her father, his two wives and their numerous children in the tiny village of Kurami, deep in Nigeria's Islamic north. The village is so small that it does not appear on a map. She insists she did nothing wrong and that the man who fathered her child made a promise to marry her. He did not, leaving her pregnant and with no support. The man said he was not the father, and three male witnesses testified he did not have a sexual relationship with Lawal. The witnesses constituted adequate corroboration of his story under Shariah law, and he was freed. Lawal is the second woman to be sentenced to death after bearing a child out of marriage since 2000, when more than a dozen states in the predominantly Islamic northern Nigeria adopted strict Islamic Shariah law. In March 2002, an appeals court reversed a similar sentence on Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu after worldwide pleas for clemency and a warning from Obasanjo that Nigeria faced international isolation over the case. The adoption of Shariah, which includes amputation as a possible punishment for convicted thieves, has stoked violence between Muslims and Christians in Africa's most populous state. More than 3,000 people have been killed. |
