'LOVE CHEAT' GIRL STONED TO DEATH; Boyfriend gets 11 lashes.Byline: STEPHEN MOYES A WOMAN has been stoned to death for adultery in front of a jeering crowd of 200. The 20-year-old divorce was buried up to her waist in a public space before rocks were hurled at her. Her unmarried 29-year-old boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue. Judge Ibrahim Abdirahman, working for the militant group
The Militant Group was an early British Trotskyist group, formed in 1935 by Denzil Dean Harber, former leader of the Marxist Group, as an entrist group al-Shabab, said the woman had given birth to a still-born baby after the affair. Under al-Shabab's interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married - even if they are divorced - can be stoned to death for adultery. An unmarried person who has sex before marriage is liable to 100 lashes. The killing was in a small Somali village near Wajid, 250 miles north-west of the capital, Mogadishu. It is thought to be the second time al-Shabab has had a woman stoned to death for adultery. The group controls large areas of southern Somalia which has been without central government for 18 years. Earlier this month a man was stoned to death for adultery south of Mogadishu. His pregnant girlfriend was spared until she gives birth. Last month two men accused of spying were stoned to death in Merka. President Sheikh sheikh or shaykh Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Ahmed (b. October 26, 1973 in Islington, London) - not to be confused with Al-Jazeera editor-in-chief Ahmed Sheikh - is a British web developer, music blogger and DJ. , a moderate Islamist, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January. Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law Noun 1. Islamic law - the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed; "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state" sharia, sharia law, shariah, shariah law would be too lenient. |
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