Muslim Indonesian woman caned for standing too close to boyfriend

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A 20-year-old Indonesian woman was caned after being caught standing too close to her boyfriend, a foreign news agency reported.

Under Sharia law in Indonesia, unmarried couples are forbidden from becoming too intimate. And so, after being accused of breaking the rules, the woman was brought to a stage outside a mosque after being escorted by two women and forced to kneel on the ground.

The woman was among 13 people – seven men and six women aged between 21 and 30 – who were caned at a mosque in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, as a baying crowd cheered the spectacle.

Six couples were found guilty of breaking Islamic laws on intimacy, such as touching, hugging and kissing, between unmarried people.

A man was caned for a less serious offence described as spending time with a member of the opposite sex in a hidden location in a fashion that could lead to adultery.

One 22-year-old woman was granted a temporary reprieve as she was pregnant. But Aceh’s deputy mayor, Zainal Arifin, said: “The punishment will be handed down after she gives birth.”

He added that he hoped the canings would serve as a deterrent: “We hope there are no more people in Banda Aceh who break the law in future.”

More and more people are being caned in Aceh. The number of women being flogged has particularly increased in recent times.

The province, on Sumatra island, began implementing sharia law after being granted special autonomy in 2001, an attempt by the government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

Islamic laws have been strengthened since Aceh struck a peace deal with Jakarta in 2005.

More than 90% of Indonesians describe themselves as Muslim, but the vast majority practise a moderate form of the faith.

Courtesy: Guardian

3 COMMENTS

  1. Now we can expect peace and tranquility to prevail in Indonesia too! Amazing culture and spectacular punishment. Seems like I am living in 1416. Thank you Indonesia for transporting me back in a time capsule!

  2. 1 Timothy 2:5
    For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

    Isaiah 44:6
    Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

    John 4:16
    Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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    Proverbs 18:2
    A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

    Proverbs 30:12
    There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

    Those in the world (those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Chris as Jesus said I am not of this world) believe they are okay person to make it to heaven, feel it's okay to commit sin everyday, commit adultery..etc are all fools. Jesus can set you free from all these and turn your life around to live for Him. Why would you take a chance and die to open your eyes in hell. To die without accepting and believing in the Lord Jesus is not something you want to take a chance on but many people do everyday.

    Matthew 7:21
    “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

    1 John 2:15-17
    Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

    The reason why there's so persecution because Christians are the light of those who do sin and are in darkness, they love their own lives, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life and their deeds are exposed when they see/meet a Christian. But Jesus already told us to expect this.

    1 Peter 4:12-14
    Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

    2 Timothy 3:12
    Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

    Matthew 24:11-13
    And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    John 10:28
    I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

    They may kill the flesh, but the eternity is forever 🙂

    1 John 5:13
    I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

    Romans 10:9
    Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

    Believe and confess your sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ today and you will be set free from the bondages of false religions.

  3. Rg Veda 10.129

    “Neither being (sat) nor non-being was as yet. What was concealed? And where? And in whose protection?…Who really knows? Who can declare it? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation? The devas were born later than this world’s creation, so who knows from where it came into existence? None can know from where creation has arisen, and whether he has or has not produced it. He who surveys it in the highest heavens, he alone knows-or perhaps does not know.”

    Rest all cr@p sh!+ nonsense, made out of nothing

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