The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.” (Qur’an 7:80-84)
Muhammad specifies the punishment for this in a hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
Also, 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)
“Gay couple are flogged more than 80 times for having sex before a woman is caned for selling alcohol in Indonesia’s Sharia law province as crowd shouts ‘hit them harder,'” by Sara Malm, MailOnline, July 13, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
A gay couple have been publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province, after a local Islamic court found them ‘guilty’ of having had sexual intercourse.
The pair were whipped more than 80 times each in front of a 1,000-strong jeering crowd, after having been apprehended by a homophobic vigilante mob earlier this year.
They were among 15 people whipped outside a mosque in the fundamentalist Muslim province’s capital Banda Aceh on Friday, which also saw a young woman caned for selling alcohol.
Both the young woman and the gay couple were led up to a platform dressed in white, while a masked ‘executioner’ rained down lashes from a rattan cane on their backs.
The crowd, which included tourists from neighbouring Malaysia, snapped pictures and shouted ‘flog them harder’ as they were beaten.
The unidentified men were the second gay couple whipped in public this year in Aceh, underscoring the increasing discrimination faced by Indonesia’s small LGBT community.
The men had been apprehended by a vigilante mob at a Banda Aceh beauty salon earlier this year and handed over to police, authorities said.
The men were reportedly found guilty of homosexual intercourse after a court established that they were in a relationship.
Gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia, but there has been a backlash against the community in recent years.
Aceh is the only region in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, that imposes Islamic law.
Public flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
‘Hopefully the flogging we’re witnessing today will serve as a lesson for people not to violate sharia (Islamic law),’ said Banda Aceh official Tarmizi Yahya.
Few in the crowd appeared to have much sympathy.
‘I don’t think they’re being serious about the flogging – it looks like they are just playing around,’ said Bukhari, a fisherman who came to watch with his wife.
‘The sharia officer should have flogged them as hard as he could.’…