I think this is a case of the cure being worse than the disease.BANDA ACEH, Aug 26 (AFP) - An Islamic Sharia court in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim province of Aceh on Friday ordered the public flogging of two couples for drinking alcohol and fondling in a public place.
The Takengon Sharia court in Central Aceh district ordered two married men in their 40s and a widow in her 20s be flogged 40 times with a rattan cane later Friday.
Sharia court chief judge Zainal Bakri told the court the three were guilty of drinking alcohol and fondling in a public place when they were caught in a car in Takengon earlier this month.
The other woman, who is single and in her 20s, received a sentence of only five strokes of the cane for kissing one of the men and not drinking alcohol, Bakri said.
Stern lectures for the logically-challenged. Others have opinions, I have convictions.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Another Example of Justice in Aceh
Here's another example of the newly instituted justice that has come to the Indonesian province of Aceh, after Islamic separatists fought a 30-year insurgency to end the injustice of the secular Indonesian government.
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