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A kiss is still a kiss, as the old song goes, but in Indonesia’s Aceh province, it’s going to cost you. Not in terms of money, but in terms of the skin off your back. A young couple in Aceh just found that out after they shared a kiss on a TikTok stream, and found themselves hauled before a Sharia court and charged with violating the rules of modesty and the proper decorum that is to be maintained between an unmarried man and woman.
For that, they were each sentenced to 21 lashes, and the sentence was recently carried out before a gaping crowd of righteously indignant Sharia-adherent Muslims who know now never, ever to livestream a kiss. And so once again we see the true heart and soul of Islam: terror. While Muslim and non-Muslim Islamic apologists in the West continue to insist that the true Islam is benign and cuddly, and that terrorism is only a tiny minority of extremists’ “hijacking” of the religion, in reality, terror is at the very center of Islam. This latest caning in Aceh shows that anew.
The South China Morning Post reported Friday that “as each blow landed on their backs, the unnamed man, 22, and woman, 25, visibly grimaced. The woman later burst into tears, wailing in pain as the public punishment continued.” The Post noted that video of the canings had kicked up the usual firestorm: “It was far from the first such case to gain international attention and the response has become familiar: footage spreads online, rights groups condemn the punishment as inhumane and Aceh’s status as the Muslim-majority country’s sole sharia-enforcing province is thrust back into the spotlight.”
Yes indeed: “In a statement issued the same day as the flogging, Amnesty International said all forms of corporal punishment constituted torture or other ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment,’ while its co-regional director, Montse Ferrer, called the caning of the couple ‘a horrifying act of discrimination.’”
In Aceh, however, they simply don’t care: “Nurjani, a 62-year-old housewife in Banda Aceh, said she supported caning because it ‘was about religion’ and in line with sharia law.” She explained: “If you do not do anything wrong, then there is nothing to fear. I support caning and I believe that if you lead your life in the right way and walk the right path, no one will question you.” Another Aceh resident, Muhammad Nasir, agreed, saying: “If someone is caned, it will be a lesson for them so that they do not do the same thing again. It has a physical element to it, but it is mostly social and designed to make the person ashamed of their crimes.”
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Westman says
“…’was about religion’ and in line with sharia law.”
My BS meter says it’s all about control, a relative of communism, and these people are afraid to say or do anything outside their micro-management. They revel in the beating of others who have something they do not have in the virtual prison of Islamic life.
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”, was answered with “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God is love”
That freedom to love and think independently was mightily resisted yet has finally brought mankind into an economic life where love and ideas can flourish as a choice.
Islam, with its history of parasitism, has contributed very little to the improvement in the quality of life, stuck as it has been in the 7th centurty. The few gleaming cities of the ME only exist because people, free to think for themselves, found uses for oil and built the petroleum business for them.
Desparate in Germany says
I have been very close to muslim families, and i can assure you terror reigns. One egyptian family with parents each doctors with four grown kids. Each child has mental.problems from the abuse they regularly faced, even the grandparents beat them if they thought, or feared they strayed one inch from the quran. The sons were beat for not going to mosque, for looking at a girl, for listening to music, etc. The one girl was likewise beat physically and mentally. This culture knows violence! One can never please allah. I wish the emapthetically suicidal numbskulls in the west would frickin’ wake up.
gravenimage says
+1
Alkflaeda says
Why do people take Islam’s word for it that their evil unaccountable tyrant of a deity is identical with the God of the Bible? Could anyone be more different from Jesus’ description of His Heavenly Father, or from Jesus Himself? And does anyone seriously think that a being like Allah would have made such a wonderful world for us?
Andrew Blackadder says
islam seems to 100% against love, compassion, understanding or tolerance so why do we see useful idiots across the Western World standing up for this obvious Fascist Religious Cult of Death.
Kissing is deemed so evil in islamic teachings that they feel the need to lash somebody, male or female, in public.
These morons are either into S&M practices or they are the devil in a robe and turban.
gravenimage says
A Kiss in Indonesia and Its Aftermath Reveal the Heart and Soul of Islam
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There is no love in Islam.