Some things are best left a mystery.
Posted on 09/03/2018 8:35:56 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Two Malaysian Muslim women convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sex were caned Monday in a rare public whipping that was slammed by lawmakers and rights activists as a form of torture.
Lawyers and activists said the women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers. More than 100 people witnessed the caning in a Shariah courtroom in northeast Terengganu state, they said.
Muslim Lawyers' Association deputy president Abdul Rahim Sinwan said unlike caning under civil laws, the punishment under Islamic laws isn't painful or harsh and was meant to educate the women so they will repent. The women, dressed in white headscarves and clothing, didn't cry or scream but "showed remorse," he said.
"Repentance is the ultimate aim for their sin," he said.
Human rights groups slammed the punishment as a setback for human rights and said it could worsen discrimination against people in Malaysia's lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community.
"Caning is a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and may amount to torture," Amnesty International Malaysia said in a statement. "People should not live in fear because they are attracted to people of the same sex. The Malaysian authorities must immediately repeal repressive laws, outlaw torturous punishments and ratify the U.N. Convention Against Torture."
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Can’t wait for all these groups to ultimately discover that Muslims are now at the top of the ideologcial pecking order they have stupidly created.
And how that endangers all their silly lifestyle choices.
Not to mention their very lives!
Stupid, stupid liberals.
They should feel lucky to not be Iraq and thrown off a building rooftop.
Is there video?
Some things are best left a mystery.
And... You are correct. People are living in that world.
Love the uniform on the police-Jawa...
“”Who doesn’t like girl-on-girl porn??”
Some things are best left a mystery.”
Seriously? You had to go there? Some FReepers haven’t even finished their coffee and this is what they see?
You should see what the rest of the 49ers offensive line looks like.
Is it bad that I smiled a little when I read the headline?
6 Paragraphs and Trump not named once.
ABC is slipping
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