The generally witless Daily Mail gets something right for once, correctly noting that Aceh “is the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia to administer Sharia.” Usually establishment media reports about Sharia punishments claim that what is being administered is “Aceh’s strict interpretation of Sharia,” or “the Taliban’s,” or whoever may be applying Sharia in a particular case. No one ever comes up with a moderate version of Sharia, and no one ever seems to notice. Here, however, the Mail inadvertently lets the truth slip. Aceh applies Sharia, and the rest of Indonesia doesn’t. The rest of Indonesia doesn’t implement some benign, tolerant version of Sharia. There is no such version.
“Woman passes out after couple are lashed 100 times for having sex outside marriage under Indonesian province’s Sharia law,” by Perkin Amalaraj, Daily Mail, May 21, 2026:
A woman has passed out after she and her partner were lashed 100 times each for having sex outside of marriage under an Indonesian province’s draconian Sharia laws.
The woman, who was not identified, needed to be carried away after she was publicly caned in Banda Aceh, on the north end of Sumatra island, today.
A figure dressed head-to-toe in an ominous brown garb with a white mask administered the lashes.
The woman’s partner was seen grimacing as he took the punishment.
The couple were two of several people who were punished under Sharia law today.
The Banda Aceh Sharia Court and Prosecutor’s Office was punishing Sharia violators with between 25 and 100 lashes, including those involved in extramarital sex arranged through online apps.
Unmarried couples are not allowed to have sex under the harsh laws in the region of Aceh, which is the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia to administer Sharia law.
Caning is used to punish a wide range of offences, including gambling, drinking alcohol, homosexual acts and having sexual relations outside marriage.
The heaviest punishments under Sharia law in Aceh are given to perpetrators of child rape….
Right. Should have married her first. Then the child rape would be in imitation of Muhammad.
Taffy says
The Bible, Deuteronomy 25:3 (KJV), sets the maximum number of lashes at 40:
“Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”
somehistory says
muzzies find great pleasure in being cruel.
Mo says
Not a fan of Sharia. But, also, stop fornicating. Two things can be wrong at the same time.
gravenimage says
I dated my husband before we married. This is considered normal in the civilized world. But a pios Muslim here when I was first at Jihad Watch told me that I would have to be stoned to death for this.
Do you agree with him?
So forced and child marriages are fine–but dating is not?
Tim gallagher says
7th century arab bullshit still around in 2026, that is what Islam is. Only unevolved knuckle draggers could remain as Muslims. And we let such people into western countries. Dumbest move ever.
abu taleb says
Some Malaysians (muslims of course) went to Aceh as shariah tourists. Very devoted muslims.
Maybe, if Aceh starts beheading people like in Saudi Arabia, there will be more tourists coming to satisfy their blood lust..
lizabee says
Who said Indonesia was a “moderate” Muslim country?
I would never visit a Muslim dominated country and that includes multiple Islamized countries in Europe.
I would never visit a Communist dominated ountry and that includes some Communist occupied zones in the US.
OLD GUY says
Now I know why goats are so popular to islamic men.
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Woman passes out after couple is lashed 100 times for sex outside marriage
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Victims have died from this.