Child stoned to death in Somalia

[Garpal Gumnut]

From the SMH and the Guardian.


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Rape victim, 13, stoned to death in stadium

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* Stoned to death for adultery after court ruling

AN ISLAMIST rebel administration in Somalia ordered that a girl, 13, be stoned to death for adultery after the child's father reported that she was raped by three men.

Amnesty International said the al-Shabab militia, which controls the city of Kismayo, arranged for 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow in front of about 1000 spectators. A truck laden with stones was brought to the stadium for the killing. Amnesty said the girl struggled with her captors and had to be forcibly carried into the stadium. Amnesty said: "Inside the stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to the killing attempted to save her life, and shot dead a boy who was a bystander."

The girl's father told Amnesty that when he tried to report her rape to the militia the child was accused by the administration of adultery and detained.

None of the men accused of the rape was arrested. The girl was earlier reported by witnesses as being 23 years old.

Guardian News & Media

 

[MrBurns]

Re: godbotherers murder a child

Fithy animals.

If you knew what really goes on around the world you'd lock yourself away.

Send in the troops kill the lot except the young who can be retrained to be human beings.

P/S I believe she was buried up to her neck.

 

[albaloushi]

This is the real story Garpal Gumnut
Please check your sources next time

Woman stoned to death for adultery after Somali court ruling
Oct 27, 2008

MOGADISHU (AFP) ”” Thousands of people gathered Monday to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in the southern port of Kismayo found her guilty of adultery, witnesses said.

Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, who had been found guilty of extra-marital intercourse was buried in the ground up to her neck while the men pelted her head with rocks.

"Our sister Aisha asked the Islamic Sharia court in Kismayo to be charged and punished for the crime she committed," local Islamist leader Sheikh Hayakallah told the crowd.

"She admitted in front of the court to engaging in adulterous sexual intercourse," he added.

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

The execution was carried in one of the city's main squares.

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

Turki is listed as a terrorist financier by Washington.

The new administration formed there began implementing a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law).

"This afternoon we are telling the people of Kismayo that we are practising a punishment that is rare in this region and was carried out in Kismayo for the first time," Sheikh Hayakallah said.

Cameras were banned from the public stoning but print and radio journalists were allowed to attend.

 

[MrBurns]

This is the real story Garpal Gumnut
Please check your sources next time

Woman stoned to death for adultery after Somali court ruling
Oct 27, 2008

MOGADISHU (AFP) ”” Thousands of people gathered Monday to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in the southern port of Kismayo found her guilty of adultery, witnesses said.

Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, who had been found guilty of extra-marital intercourse was buried in the ground up to her neck while the men pelted her head with rocks.

"Our sister Aisha asked the Islamic Sharia court in Kismayo to be charged and punished for the crime she committed," local Islamist leader Sheikh Hayakallah told the crowd.

"She admitted in front of the court to engaging in adulterous sexual intercourse," he added.

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

The execution was carried in one of the city's main squares.

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

Turki is listed as a terrorist financier by Washington.

The new administration formed there began implementing a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law).

"This afternoon we are telling the people of Kismayo that we are practising a punishment that is rare in this region and was carried out in Kismayo for the first time," Sheikh Hayakallah said.

Cameras were banned from the public stoning but print and radio journalists were allowed to attend.

Ohhh I understand now thats ok then fine no problems, just a little stoning between friends.

The whole thing is inhuman carried out by those who are less than human.

 

[albaloushi]

Ohhh I understand now thats ok then fine no problems, just a little stoning between friends.

The whole thing is inhuman carried out by those who are less than human.

And you think torturing people in jails in Iraq, bomping villeges by F-16 and killing women and children is human.....Have you had any objection on that?

 

[MrBurns]

And you think torturing people in jails in Iraq, bomping villeges by F-16 and killing women and children is human.....Have you had any objection on that?

What's that got to do with 50 men murdering a defenseless girl ?

 

[albaloushi]

What's that got to do with 50 men murdering a defenseless girl ?

Sorry for confusing, but the point I am trying to make here that some people close their eyes on horrible big things and open their eyes on tinny events. Before expressing your opinion –and you might think its right- you should have background on the issue –its Islamic Shareaa here-then you can make a reasonable judgment. This part of the world is NOT as bad as you think people.

Many thnakx

 

[MrBurns]

Sorry for confusing, but the point I am trying to make here that some people close their eyes on horrible big things and open their eyes on tinny events. Before expressing your opinion –and you might think its right- you should have background on the issue –its Islamic Shareaa here-then you can make a reasonable judgment. This part of the world is NOT as bad as you think people.

Many thnakx

I know it's your religion and all that but it's the vilest form of human rights abuse to perpetrate a crime like that.

If your religion supports this barbaric behavior someone among you should be doing something about it.

 

[nick2fish]

From the SMH and the Guardian.


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AN ISLAMIST rebel administration in Somalia ordered that a girl, 13, be stoned to death for adultery after the child's father reported that she was raped by three men.


Guardian News & Media

Thats the version of events that I read as well via The Australian online. I'm not in the habit of validating news reports , I'll leave that to others and the court system

 

[gav]

This is the real story Garpal Gumnut
Please check your sources next time

Woman stoned to death for adultery after Somali court ruling
Oct 27, 2008

MOGADISHU (AFP) ”” Thousands of people gathered Monday to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in the southern port of Kismayo found her guilty of adultery, witnesses said.

Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, who had been found guilty of extra-marital intercourse was buried in the ground up to her neck while the men pelted her head with rocks.

"Our sister Aisha asked the Islamic Sharia court in Kismayo to be charged and punished for the crime she committed," local Islamist leader Sheikh Hayakallah told the crowd.

"She admitted in front of the court to engaging in adulterous sexual intercourse," he added.

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

The execution was carried in one of the city's main squares.

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

Turki is listed as a terrorist financier by Washington.

The new administration formed there began implementing a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law).

"This afternoon we are telling the people of Kismayo that we are practising a punishment that is rare in this region and was carried out in Kismayo for the first time," Sheikh Hayakallah said.

Cameras were banned from the public stoning but print and radio journalists were allowed to attend.

So after committing adultery, she asked to be stoned to death?

 

[fimmwolf]

lol, yeah.

What good Muslim wouldn't ask to be stoned to death?

The word Islam has two meanings:

* peace

* submission

I guess she knew the submission bit, better than the courts knew the peace bit.

 

[classer]

This is the real story Garpal Gumnut
Please check your sources next time

ok my sources have a very different story to tell

By David Williams (Daily Mail)

A girl of 13 begged for mercy moments before a mob buried her up to her shoulders and stoned her to death, it was claimed yesterday.

The Somalian youngster is said to have pleaded 'Don't kill me, don't kill me' before her horrific execution in front of a 1,000-strong crowd.

A boy is thought to have been shot dead amid the appalling scenes inside a football stadium in Kismayu, a rebel-held port.

According to Amnesty International, the girl was 13 and had been raped by three men.

Officials say she was 23 and had confessed adultery before an Islamic court.

The stoning, which took place on October 28, is the first public killing in war-torn Somalia for two years.

Convicting a girl of 13 for adultery would be illegal under sharia law but the authorities said she had lied about her age. Print and radio journalists who were allowed to attend the execution put her age at 23.

Amnesty and Unicef, the UN children's agency, said that the girl, identified as Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was raped while travelling to see a relative in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital.

Her family is said to have tried to report the crime to the militia who control Kismayu, only for Aisha to be arrested and accused of adultery. None of the men she accused of rape was detained.

David Copeman, Amnesty's Somalia campaigner, said: 'This was not justice, nor was it an execution. This child suffered an horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayu.

'This killing is yet another human rights abuse committed by the combatants in Somalia and again demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses, through an international commission of inquiry.'

Amnesty said partway through the stoning nurses checked whether Aisha was still alive. They pulled her body out of the ground to ascertain she was still breathing before the stoning continued.

A Unicef statement said: 'She sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death.

'A child was victimised twice - first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice.'

The agency said the incident highlighted the vulnerability of girls and women in Somalia, which has suffered civil conflict for the past 17 years.

In the latest cycle, Islamist rebels are fighting the government and their backers in the Ethiopian military.

A witness told the BBC the woman had begged for her life and had been crying as she was forced into the hole in the ground.

He said the girl had asked the Islamic administration in Kismayo: 'What do you want from me?'

They replied : '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.'

The witness added: 'A few minutes later more than 50 men tried to stone her.'

He said no one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed.

 

[Panacea]

What a miserable way to treat a human being. Whether it was rape or adultery, or she was 13 or 23, it's still a disgraceful act.

 

[Buddy]

albaloushi, I think you have your head up your bum chum. Amnesty is generally a truthful organisation. Have a read of what they say. Amnesty say that this happened (a 13 year old girl was stoned to death). Anyway, regardless of whether it was a child who was raped or a woman committing adultery, this is a barbaric crime committed by a mob of crazy godbothering subhuman species. No excuses chum, sharia or not. Somalia, is typical of the 6th century barbarians that inhabit that part of the world.

 

[cuttlefish]

And you think torturing people in jails in Iraq, bomping villeges by F-16 and killing women and children is human.....Have you had any objection on that?

The vast majority of people have objected to or condemned these acts, but they do demonstrate that barbaric acts can be perpetrated by all cultures. (which is not news to anyone thats read a bit of history).

This event (the stoning of this young girl) is an abhorrant act and should also be condemned.

 

[spartn]

Hi Guyz

I remember reading this story not long ago on the internet it truly is Fu*king pathetic! people who would even be able to think of doing this should be taken out of society. How could you do this to a middle aged Women let alone a 13yr old girl.

Sadly it is nothing new. My mate who is from Eygpt told me a story how a young girl in Saudi Arabia was raped by one of her friends. She was wearing a thing that muslim women wear on the head and pants, but because she was wearing a tank top the court decided that the friend was provoked into raping her and was let scott free and the prize to the girl for being raped '50 lashes'.

I also remember reading in the Herald Sun last week about a 21yr old boy at University in Afghanistan who passed out pamplets out to other Uni students which was about increasing the rights to Women, and he was lucky to get 20yrs in jail considering he was up for the Death Penalty.

Remember 'Afghanistan' is where ours and our allies have died to try and bring hope to the Country. Taliban, Al Qaeda or the new government in charge the Afghanistan people have no future.

I think the comment Pope Benedict XVI made in 2006 was spot on "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached

Spartn

:viking:

 

[refined silver]

What a miserable way to treat a human being. Whether it was rape or adultery, or she was 13 or 23, it's still a disgraceful act.

I agree its disgraceful, no matter what, but there is actually a difference.

1. If it was for adultery, and it was proven, where was the man? It takes two for adultery doesn't it? If they had both been stoned, still pretty abhorent, but at least you could say they tried to be just, however much we may disagree with the penalties. Since it was just the woman stoned (the girl actually) you can say it was totally injust, sexist, discriminatory, blatant and violent cruelty against a sub-species - women.

2. It wasn't actually for adultery. It was a girl who was gang raped!! Twice betrayed!!

You could call the Islamic court and stoners who did this barbaric animals, bit what animals treat each other this way?

3. Don't pretend all cultures or religions are similar. Without any knowledge of the country or religion involved, if people were told what happened, 99% of people could have guessed the religion responsible. Its pure garbage there's no difference.

 

[fimmwolf]

And you think torturing people in jails in Iraq, bomping villeges by F-16 and killing women and children is human.....Have you had any objection on that?

I think many Australians do condemn such actions. You'll note that such allegations have not been made with regard to the ADF (Australian Defence Force). Who are professional soldiers, and who have very different rules of engagement to the American's.

Before expressing your opinion –and you might think its right- you should have background on the issue –its Islamic Shareaa here-then you can make a reasonable judgment. This part of the world is NOT as bad as you think people.

Many thnakx

Are you saying that because it's sharia law, it's right?

In practice Sharia law has often resulted in women living in fear or disadvantage. In instances of rape Sharia law require for an allegation to be validated, victims must have four Muslim-Male witnesses to the crime or else the victims risk being charged with fornication or adultery making a rejected allegation a potential death sentence for the victim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia

Which is to say Muslim women cant tell the truth without the affirmation of a male. And you are telling me this is right, or is real justice?

 

[agro]

stoning is quiet common within islamic countries

just saying - so this is nothing new..

 

[Green08]

Primative and disgusting. Which ever way you spin the story.

But should she be 13 or 23 in the USA and McCain was in she would have been forced to have that baby and have no assistance to her mental trauma.
Is that a sign of any improved behaviour from the West?