UPDATE: Nigerian Woman May Get Stoned to Death??? Not Anymore!!!

by Funchback 15 Replies latest social current

  • Funchback
    Funchback

    And to think that the Bible condoned stoning on grounds of adultery.

    http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woston0925,0,4884414.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

    Nigerian Lawyers Hopeful in Stoning Case

    Katsina, Nigeria -- Lawyers for a woman ordered stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock were confident Wednesday that a five-judge panel would spare her.

    A decision on the appeal of Amina Lawal, a 32-year-old mother, is expected Thursday in a case that has dragged on for more than a year and sparked international outcry.

    If the sentence stands, Lawal could be the first woman stoned to death since states in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north adopted strict Islamic law, or Shariah, in 1999.

    Yet few believe the brutal punishment -- in which Lawal would be buried up to her neck in sand and then stoned to death -- will ever be carried out.

    An Islamic court convicted her in March 2002 of having sex outside marriage after her daughter, Wasila, was born two years after Lawal had divorced her husband. The child is now nearly 2.

    "We have very strong grounds for appeal," lead lawyer Aliyu Musa Yawuri told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

    An earlier appeal filed by her team of volunteer lawyers was rejected by another court in August 2002. If her sentence is upheld Thursday, the case will go to an appeals court in the north-central city of Kaduna, and then possibly to Nigeria's Supreme Court, Yawuri said.

    Yawuri has argued Lawal's case should be dropped because no lawyers were present when she first testified she had slept with another man after her divorce. Yawuri said Lawal -- a poor, uneducated woman from a rural family -- also didn't understand the charges against her at the time.

    Lawal identified her sexual partner, Yahaya Mohammed, and said he promised to marry her. Mohammed, who would also have faced a stoning sentence, has denied any impropriety and was acquitted for lack of evidence. (Haven't they heard of DNA testing?!?)
    Lawal's case has drawn sharp criticism from international human rights groups. Ministers in President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and world leaders have called for Lawal to be spared. Last week, Brazil offered her asylum.

    She remains free pending a final decision. Judges have said she would not be executed until she finishes breast-feeding her baby in January.

    Four other people have been sentenced to stoning deaths. Two were acquitted, and two others -- a pair of lovers -- await a decision on their fate.

    Introduction of Islamic law has heightened Muslim-Christian tensions in Nigeria, Africa's most-populous nation. Religious, ethnic and political violence has claimed at least 10,000 lives since Obasanjo's 1999 election ended 15 years of repressive military juntas.

  • Nickey
    Nickey

    It really is a shame. I get upset everytime I read it. Aaaah!

  • Funchback
    Funchback

    Nickey...It's nice to meet you. I don't recall ever seeing your name but, obviously, you've been around because you have almost 300 posts!

    First of all, it's just inhumane. Second of all, a man HAD to be involved. Third of all, they need to re-think their Muslim rules.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Well, jeru likes the ot laws. Eh, jeru?

    SS

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Wouldn't it be nice if stern, clear, unwavering, from-the-top international pressure was focused on Nigeria at this moment in time. As in~ the leaders of all civilised and semi-civilised nations letting Nigeria's leaders know that they will not be considered a legitimate govt. any longer if this thing happens.

    This crime against women is every bit as big a black mark on our beautiful earth as the presence of Saddam Hussein and his boys.

  • Stacy Smith
    Stacy Smith

    I couldn't agree more six.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    If the world rejected this, what would that say about the world of mankind today, as compared to the ot and it's righteous god? The god of aguest, abraham, isaac and jacob, and the jews. What about christianity's founder, paul, who said that the law was good?

    SS

  • Stacy Smith
    Stacy Smith

    They were turds SS. If you can believe that crap.

  • gumby
    gumby

    Gee.....I wonder where in the world someone would get the idea to throw rocks at people until they kill them.............................................oh I remember now! It's in a book I have thats full of dust and never gets read anymore.......................at least by me.

    Here is some more reasons to throw rocks at people till you kill then from the good book.

    being a gluttonous or drunken son (Deuteronomy 21.20,21);

    "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die."

    passing yourself off as a virgin bride when you’re not (Deuteronomy 22.20,21);

    "But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die."

    being a rape victim but not crying out loud enough (Deuteronomy 22.23,24);

    "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city;"

    uttering Jehovahs (secret) name! (Leviticus 24. 13,16).

    "And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him:"

    Wait.....thers one more:

    On the other hand, bringing about a slave’s death by beating with a stick – so long as he lingers ‘for a day or two’ – does not require punishment! (Exodus 21.20,21).

    "And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money."

    Gumby.................* bunch a rock throwin bastards*

  • SanFranciscoJim
    SanFranciscoJim

    Aren't the JWs very strong in Nigeria?

    I wonder how they're reacting to the introduction of fundamentalist Islam there?

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