Islamic apologists in the West like to compare Sharia to Jewish law and Catholic Canon Law. When was the last time you heard of anyone being whipped for violating either one of those?
Sharia forbids not just the consumption of alcohol, but its sale as well. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Verily Allah, the Exalted, has forbidden wine. So who hears this verse and he has anything of it with him, he should neither drink it nor sell it.” (Sahih Muslim 3835)
“Christian man whipped 36 times for selling alcohol and violating Sharia law,” by Lloyd Johnson, Express, January 19, 2018:
A MAN was flogged in a brutal public punishment for selling alchohol [sic] in violation of Sharia law in Indonesia as he was whipped 36 times.
Jono Simbolon, an Indonesian Christian was sentenced to 36 lashes with a rattan stick.
The punishment was so brutal that a doctor checked his health after 10 stokes, before allowing the flogging to continue.
Simbolon was arrested in October, in the northern Indonesian province of Aceh, for selling alcohol, in violation of Islamic law. He is only the third non-Muslim to suffer a public whipping.
Despite being a part of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Aceh is Indonesia’s only province that implements Islamic law.
Simbolon was one of 10 people, including eight men and two women, convicted after Friday prayers.
He was sentenced alongside people accused of crimes that included pimping, prostitution and gambling.
Chief prosecutor Erwin Desman said Simbolon may have chosen caning in order to avoid lengthy criminal prosecution.
Aceh, located on Sumatra island, is 98 percent Muslim and enforces Islamic law known locally as Qanun….