Amnesty International describes a public caning as “cruel, inhuman and degrading, and amount to torture.” It’s nevertheless practiced in some Sharia-adherent jurisdictions, including Aceh, Indonesia. Some victims collapse and become unconscious. Yet when any Westerner describes the Sharia as barbaric or savage, he or she is met with raised brows and swift accusations of “Islamophobia” […]
Sharia Indonesia: 60-year-old woman caned for selling alcohol in Aceh
But remember: anyone who suggests that Sharia and Western secular pluralism are incompatible is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Sixty-year-old woman caned in public for selling booze in Aceh,” DPA, April 12, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A 60-year-old woman was caned in public in the north-west of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today after a […]