SumSam
November 4th, 2008, 11:26 AM
BBC News: Stoning victim 'begged for mercy' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm)
Warning - disturbing (to put it mildly! :ohno)
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.
The witness says 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.
Cameras were banned from the public stoning, 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.
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.
Oh Lord, what a savage society! What bloodthirsty "justice"! :twitch :(
Folks, here's what disturbed me the most. This news report immediately reminded me of the woman in Jesus's time who was going to be stoned for adultery till Jesus challenged the crowd that "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
Could it be possible that Israeli society 2000 years ago resembled present day Islamic societies in some ways? Remember this was an Israel that had been roundly and soundly condemned by generations of prophets and then Lord Jesus Himself.
If ithe Israel of those long ago days was anything like present day Islamic societies I can readily see why. :ohno
Warning - disturbing (to put it mildly! :ohno)
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.
The witness says 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.
Cameras were banned from the public stoning, 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.
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.
Oh Lord, what a savage society! What bloodthirsty "justice"! :twitch :(
Folks, here's what disturbed me the most. This news report immediately reminded me of the woman in Jesus's time who was going to be stoned for adultery till Jesus challenged the crowd that "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
Could it be possible that Israeli society 2000 years ago resembled present day Islamic societies in some ways? Remember this was an Israel that had been roundly and soundly condemned by generations of prophets and then Lord Jesus Himself.
If ithe Israel of those long ago days was anything like present day Islamic societies I can readily see why. :ohno