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Islamic court rejects Nigerian mother's appeal on stoning verdict
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Posted on 08/19/2002 3:25:26 PM PDT by Becwin

Islamic court rejects Nigerian mother's appeal on stoning verdict

A Nigerian Islamic court threw out an appeal by a young woman sentenced to be stoned to death for bearing a child out of wedlock and ordered her to be executed once her child is weaned.

To cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) from the public galleries, the judge ordered 30-year-old Amina Lawal to be taken to a public place, buried up to her neck and put to death by stoning.

The judgement was a slap in the face for a coalition of lawyers, activists and federal officials who had chosen the case to challenge the reintroduction of the strict Islamic legal code, or sharia, in the north of the country.

Amina's legal team announced an immediate appeal. If they fail, their client could become the first Nigerian to be stoned to death since 12 northern states reintroduced sharia.

Her team of Abuja-based lawyers and rights campaigners had argued that her conviction was unfair, that her confession had been retracted and that she had never understood the case against her.

But a four-judge panel meeting at the upper sharia court in Funtua, 300 kilometres (190 miles) north of Abuja, dismissed their arguments.

"We uphold your conviction of death by stoning as prescribed by the sharia. This judgement will be carried out as soon as your baby is weaned," the lead judge told Lawal, who sat before the bench cradling her eight-month-old daughter.

A cry of "Allahu Akbar" resounded around the packed courtroom as Lawal, a shy and slight village woman dressed in a bright red dress and deep purple open-faced veil, burst into tears.

At an earlier hearing in January during which she was not represented, Lawal told reporters she was confident that she would be cleared now that she had high-powered lawyers behind her.

"I feel bad, I'm not happy at all. We thought they were going to discharge her," said Clara Obazele, a spokeswoman for Women's Affairs Minister Aisha Ismail. "We're going to appeal the judgement."

Lawal's defence lawyer Aliyu Musa Yawuri said: "We're not satisfied with this decision, and we're going to appeal."

Lawal, a divorcee, gave birth in January and was denounced by police to the Sharia court in Bakori.

She told the authorities that the father of Wasila, her third child, was Yahaya Mahmud, her boyfriend of 11 months, whom she said had seduced her with an offer of marriage, the court heard.

Mahmud admitted being Lawal's boyfriend, but swore on the Koran that he was not the father. He was discharged. Lawal was tried and convicted based on her confession.

This mirrored Nigeria's previous stoning case, that of 35-year-old Safiya Husseini. Under Sharia's strict rules of proof, witnesses are required to convict a man of adultery, while a woman may be condemned for falling pregnant.

In Husseini's case earlier this year the defence managed to get her acquitted on a series of technicalities.

Before Monday's verdict, Ibrahim had expressed concern that if Lawal were to be stoned to death, it could open the floodgates to dozens of similar cases across northern Nigeria.

The defence had hoped to safeguard her life before mounting an action to challenge the legality of Sharia trials in the higher courts.


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1 posted on 08/19/2002 3:25:26 PM PDT by Becwin
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To: Becwin
ANIMAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
2 posted on 08/19/2002 3:30:32 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Animals is too good a descrption for barbaric Islamists.
3 posted on 08/19/2002 3:32:46 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: Becwin
"A Nigerian Islamic court threw out an appeal by a young woman sentenced to be stoned to death for bearing a child out of wedlock and ordered her to be executed once her child is weaned."

Bunch of pigf*cking muslim savages.

4 posted on 08/19/2002 3:34:44 PM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Becwin
"Liberals" are going to love the sharia when they finally succeed in delivering North America to these Muslim devil-worshippers.

"Allahu Akbar" indeed! The only "god" these pigs worship is Satan--and they serve him well.

5 posted on 08/19/2002 3:36:32 PM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Becwin
Now,now kiddies. As harsh as it sounds, we must respect all aspects of other's culture. We must not be judgemental! </sarcasm>
6 posted on 08/19/2002 4:14:33 PM PDT by leadhead
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To: Becwin
Now,now kiddies. As harsh as it sounds, we must respect all aspects of other's culture. We must not be judgemental! </sarcasm>
7 posted on 08/19/2002 4:14:44 PM PDT by leadhead
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To: Becwin
Now,now kiddies. As harsh as it sounds, we must respect all aspects of other's culture. We must not be judgemental! </sarcasm>
8 posted on 08/19/2002 4:14:44 PM PDT by leadhead
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To: Becwin
Islamic justice means killing the VICTIM of rape.
In extramartial affairs, men go free and the women are conveniently killed.

The Islamic idea of American urban renewal:

Islam - The Religion of Peace(TM)

9 posted on 08/19/2002 4:23:06 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Becwin
Let's see, in the last few weeks we have read about:

1) Palestinian police using torture on a 17 year old homosexual and attempting to force him to seek out other gays and then turn them into the police for further torture.

2) Islamic rape victims being shot, since women cause rape (in their minds).

3) Now 'Murphy Brown's' being stoned to death in the name of Allah.

and, oh, yes:

4) Yassar Arafat has a net worth of over One Billion dollars, and thus makes Jesse Jackson look like a piker.

Would anybody care to attempt to explain why so many on the Left and so many liberal are supporting this religion and peoples of peace?

Note: the above is intended to be a non-rhetorical question.

10 posted on 08/19/2002 4:35:59 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
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To: Becwin
Don't think I'll hold my breath waiting for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Cynthia McKinney to loudly condemn this. To them, African governments can do no wrong.
11 posted on 08/19/2002 4:51:03 PM PDT by NYS_Eric
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To: leadhead
Now,now kiddies. As harsh as it sounds, we must respect all aspects of other's culture. We must not be judgemental!

Yes, teacher.

12 posted on 08/19/2002 5:39:41 PM PDT by BenR2
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To: Savage Beast
"Liberals" are going to love the sharia when they finally succeed in delivering North America to these Muslim devil-worshippers.

"Allahu Akbar" indeed! The only "god" these pigs worship is Satan--and they serve him well.

My nomination for the post of the week.

13 posted on 08/19/2002 5:40:52 PM PDT by BenR2
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To: Becwin
To cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) from the public galleries, the judge ordered 30-year-old Amina Lawal to be taken to a public place, buried up to her neck and put to death by stoning.

Religion of peace. Seems like the San Antonio Express-News has a favorable article about Islam every Sunday.

Wonder if they will put the spotlight on this lovely little cameo of Islam in action.

Question: What turns on an Islamofascist more? Raping a woman? Or executing one?

14 posted on 08/19/2002 5:44:12 PM PDT by BenR2
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To: Becwin
Speaking as a woman, she´s better of dead than living in this culture. I only hope it´s quick. Unfortunately, what I know of stoning (from stories out of... believe it or not... lovely, civilized, cosmopolitan Saudi Arabia) suggest that it´s a hideous way to go and can take up to 2 hours. I wish Cynthia McKinney could be forced to witness this. Actually, I wish Cynthia McKinney were the one who... oh, no, of course I´m not going to say that. Aloud.
15 posted on 08/19/2002 5:51:36 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Becwin
Islamic court rejects Nigerian mother's appeal on stoning verdict

Well, that's a raghead for ya. They'll stone you when your're driving in your car They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar You should not feel so all alone Because they think everybody must be stoned

16 posted on 08/19/2002 6:10:02 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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