Thousands of people gathered Monday to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in the southern port of Kismayo found her guilty of adultery.

Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, who had been found guilty of extra-marital intercourse was buried in the ground up to her neck while the men pelted her head with rocks.

The execution was carried in one of the city's main squares.

This afternoon we are telling the people of Kismayo that we are practising a punishment that is rare in this region and was carried out in Kismayo for the first time, Sheikh Hayakallah said.

Cameras were banned from the public stoning but print and radio journalists were allowed to attend.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/3274129/Islamists-stone-adulterous-Somali-woman-to-death.html


Not a religous person myself but;

"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" ring a bell with anyone?

mule wrote:


Not a religous person myself but;

"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" ring a bell with anyone?Yep. Judging others is always inherently risky, as I've found what goes around comes around.

I don't understand it when people take it upon themselves to smite people for wrongdoing in gods name. If their so called, all powerful deity didn't want people doing things he/she would stop them his/herself. These nutcases go against their own teachings.

This is insane. There's something very wrong with the world. I can't get my head round this at all. It shocks me so much.

Truly shocking.. how we can consider ourselves evolved and still carry out such barbaric treatment on others is beyond, makes me ashamed to be human.

how we can consider ourselves evolved and still carry out such barbaric treatment on others is beyond

This is a terrible thing, (thanks for finding it mule) yet somehow I'm not entirely surprised.

It is a classic case of misogyny.

I try not to judge other nations/religions actions by my own western set of "values" and at the end of the day the woman involved must have been aware of the penalties.

However, I can't condone such a vile practice, it is totally unacceptable and twisted, why don't they stone the man as well?

Totally sickening.

Watched a video of a stoning once.
Still haunts me.

The person is bound, then tied in the bag, and buried up to the kneck.
IIRC, they are allowed to go free, if they can escape before they are killed.

Now that's even more sick.
There's psychological torture involved too.

As Hawk & Dove said, it makes you despair of any hope for humanity.

What do you make of "1,000 spectators" turning up though?

That part doesn't surprise me at all. I think such shocking bloodlust is an unfortunate aspect of human nature.

It get's worse.
Now it looks like it was a 13 year old girl who complained that she had been raped;
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/01/amnesty.rape.somalia.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

it's like something out of the dark ages. I can't believe this sort of stuff still goes on.
I have heard of many other similar laws which are absolutely ridiculous.

Nobody is to stone anybody until I blow this whistle — even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say, "Jehovah".

I thought that they have only just reduced the punishement for this law in Pakistan?