Somali woman stoned to death for adultery

[Praxius]

The thing I would like to add in regards to this story being brought to attention by those around here and their reactions, the situation now is this:

It apparently happened and this girl is now dead.

Those responsible for order and law in that area are apparently skewing their understanding of the teaching of that religion beyond what most there accept, including here in these forums.

What are You going to do about it?

Are you going to donate more towards charity programs and organizations to help out that area?

Are you going to go and complain to your local politician about this and see if they can do anything about it?

Do you feel some nation should step in and dictate to everybody there how those religious views are to be understood and change their ways of life?

Are you going to get up off your butt, hop on a plane now and try and make a difference over there?

Are ya gonna go all Rambo on their asses?

Or are you just gonna express how you feel about this situation and how you know this will happen again.... and again.... and do nothing besides express yourself?

If you don't like the situation, how do you plan on changing it?

Some here it would seem would just rather do nothing and simply ignore it as some fabricated story made up by the "Big Corporate Media" to make some people look evil..... because it's easier to deal with that way I guess.

Others will take the situation and pull it close to their heart by putting themselves in the shoes of the situation and/or of that person waiting for their painful death in a hole, surrounded by those who can not do anything for you, or they simply don't want to.

So.... the question is, when a situation like this occurs, does it change the path in your life in anyway, or is it just a fact of everyday life that you just have no control over because there's just too much of it happening everyday, so you just try and live your own life so that there is at least some good somewhere on the planet occuring..... yourself and those around you?

Seems fair enough..... then again that mentality and situation isn't much different then sitting at the big dinner table with a big thanksgiving turkey and food, with all your family, joking and laughing it up in warmth and peace under one rood..... all the while, down the street and around the corner there's a homeless guy wrapped up in a tattered blanket on the stairs trying to keep warm and make that slice of toast last in his stomach for as long as he can.... wondering when things will get better.

As the world turns..... These are the days of our lives.

*snickers* Jeez people lighten up, you're getting all depressing in here.

 

[Just the Facts]

It was the girl's father that said she was raped, not Amnesty International. What would you expect the father to say???

Ummm....nothing? That's certainly what a sane caring father would do from now on.

 

[Just the Facts]

When I read this stuff I get a pain in the centre of my chest and become angry.

Therefore you need not be ashamed. You are not like them.

 

[Just the Facts]

Or are you just gonna express how you feel about this situation and how you know this will happen again.... and again.... and do nothing besides express yourself?

That's a start. Bringing attention to the fact that these things are going on can escalate into concrete results, as it apparently did in this case:

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[Praxius]

And Update on Information:

Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'
BBC NEWS | Africa | Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'

A young woman recently stoned to death in Somalia first pleaded for her life, a witness has told the BBC.


"Don't kill me, don't kill me," she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones.

Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.

Initial reports had said she was a 23-year-old woman who had confessed to adultery before a Sharia court.

Numerous eye-witnesses say she was forced into a hole, buried up to her neck then pelted with stones until she died in front of more than 1,000 people last week.
Meanwhile, Islamists in the capital, Mogadishu have carried out a public flogging.

Mogadishu is nominally under the control of government forces and their Ethiopian allies, who face frequent attacks by Islamist and nationalist insurgents.


The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in the city says the flogging was a show of strength.

He says two men accused of helping to kill a man and torture his mother, who they accused of theft, were each given 39 lashes in the north-eastern suburb of Suqa-hola.

The man who actually killed the alleged thief was released, after agreeing to pay his family 100 camels in compensation.

Before the flogging, hundreds of Islamist fighters performed a military parade, our reporter says.

Death threats
Cameras were banned from the stoning in Kismayo, but print and radio journalists who were allowed to attend estimated that the woman, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was 23 years old.

However, Amnesty said it had learned she was 13, and that her father had said she was raped by three men.


When the family tried to report the rape, the girl was accused of adultery and detained, Amnesty said.

Convicting a girl of 13 for adultery would be illegal under Islamic law.

A human rights activist in the town told the BBC on condition of anonymity that he had received death threats from the Islamic militia, who accuse him of spreading false information about the incident.

He denies having anything to with Amnesty's report.

'Crying'
Court authorities have said the woman came to them admitting her guilt.

She was asked several times to review her confession but she stressed that she wanted Sharia law and the deserved punishment to apply, they said.


But a witness who spoke to the BBC's Today programme said she had been crying and had to be forced into a hole before the stoning, reported to have taken place in a football stadium.

"More than 1,000 people arrived there," he said.

"After two hours, the Islamic administration in Kismayo brought the lady to the place and when she came out she said: 'What do you want from me?'"

"They said: 'We will do what Allah has instructed us'. She said: 'I'm not going, I'm not going. Don't kill me, don't kill me.'

"A few minutes later more than 50 men tried to stone her."

'Checked by nurses'

The witness said people crowding round to see the execution said it was "awful".

"People were saying this was not good for Sharia law, this was not good for human rights, this was not good for anything."

But no-one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed, the witness said. He said one boy was shot in the confusion.

According to Amnesty International, nurses were sent to check during the stoning whether the victim was still alive. They removed her from the ground and declared that she was, before she was replaced so the stoning could continue.

The port of Kismayo was seized in August by a coalition of forces loyal to rebel leader Hassan Turki, and al-Shabab, the country's main radical Islamist insurgent organisation.

Mr Turki is on the US list of "financers of terrorism".

It was the first reported execution by stoning in the southern port city since Islamist insurgents captured it.
The BBC had a reporter in the area, but he was shot dead in Kismayo in June.

Sounds pretty screwed up....