Somalia’s Islamists to stone rapists to death - Here we go again

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MOGADISHU - Somalia’s newly powerful Islamists on Monday said they will stone to death five rapists, in what some fear is the latest sign of a plan to install a hardline Islamic regime like Afghanistan’s Taleban.

The punishments, like others carried out by the Islamists in their sharia courts in the capital Mogadishu and elsewhere, follow the naming of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys -- on a UN list of Al Qaeda associates -- to a top post over the weekend.

Aweys, a former army colonel who in the 1990s led militant Islamists in failed campaigns in Somalia but has denied any Al Qaeda links, was named head of the Council of Islamic Courts.

The council is a parliament for the Islamists, whose well-trained militias seized Mogadishu from US-backed warlords on June 5 after months of fighting that killed at least 350.

I was going to make a post about how stoning rapists was something plenty of DUers would advocate...

King James Bible

There's simply no contemporay Christian counterpart to certain current functioning interpretations of Sharia.

Their rapists get the easier death of beheading.

They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when youre there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin long the street.
They'll stone ya when youre tryin to keep your seat.
They'll stone ya when youre walkin on the floor.
They'll stone ya when youre walkin to the door.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.
They'll stone ya when you are young and able.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin to make a buck.
They'll stone ya and then they'll say, good luck.
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you and say that its the end.
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you and then say you are brave.
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.