[Reader-list] Islamic justice

[Aarti Sethi]

Please Aditya. Stop it. This is not Islamic justice, but a perversion
and atrocity of the worst kind. What are you trying to do by posting
this and calling it "Islamic Justice"?  Would you like me to post
new-reports of the sort of caste atrocities that are perpetrated every
other day, the Kairlanji killing, for instance (where incidentally the
two women were raped till they died, and then raped after they died)
and call it "Hindu justice"? It makes as much, or as little sense, at
this...

You are deeply ill Aditya. You really need to get some help.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/03/somalia-rape-amnesty
>
> *Somalian rape victim, 13, stoned to death.*
> Chris McGreal, Africa correspondent The Guardian,
> Monday November 3 2008
>
> An Islamist rebel administration in Somalia has had a 13-year-old
> girl stoned to death for adultery after the child's father reported
> that she was raped by three men.
>
> Amnesty International said al-Shabab militia, which controls the
> southern city of Kismayo, arranged for 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim
> Duhulow in front of about 1,000 spectators. A lorry load of stones
> was brought to the stadium for the killing.
>
> Amnesty said Duhulow struggled with her captors and had to be
> forcibly carried into the stadium.
>
> "At one point during the stoning, Amnesty International has been told
> by numerous eyewitnesses that nurses were instructed to check whether
> Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was still alive when buried in the ground. They
> removed her from the ground, declared that she was, and she was
> replaced in the hole where she had been buried for the stoning to
> continue," the human rights group said. It continued: "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."
>
> Amnesty said Duhulow was originally reported by witnesses as being 23
> years old, based on her appearance, but established from her father
> that she was a child. He told Amnesty that when they tried to report
> her rape to the militia, the child was accused of adultery and
> detained. None of the men accused was arrested.
>
> "This was not justice, nor was it an execution," said Amnesty's
> Somalia campaigner, David Copeman. "This killing is yet another human
> rights abuse committed by the combatants to the conflict in Somalia,
> and again demonstrates the importance of international action to
> investigate and document such abuses, through an international
> commission of inquiry."
>
>
>
> --
> Aditya Raj Kaul
>
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>
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