Islamists in control of northern Mali said they forced a man and a woman into two holes and stoned them to death for committing adultery in the lawless region.
Witnesses watched quietly as Islamists executed the two by pelting them with rocks in the remote Aguelhok town, according to a local resident.
“I don’t know how many rocks they threw or for how long it went on before they were both dead,” said Haman Maiga, a resident of Aguelhok who witnessed the stoning. “No one dared to try and stop the Islamists.”
The woman had two small children, a boy and a girl, according to Maiga.
A leader of a radical Islamic group in the region said Sharia law condemns relationships outside marriage.
“The man and the woman, who were both married (to other people), were having an affair,” said Aliou Toure, the Islamist commissioner in Gao. “They were stoned to death, the punishment for infidelity, according to Sharia, Islamic law.”
The stoning Sunday is the first reported Sharia killing since al Qaeda-linked Islamists took control of the north.
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Mali has been in a state of Chaos since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.
The coup leader stepped down in May and transferred power to a civilian transitional government, but uncertainty looms.
Ethnic Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants have taken advantage of the chaos to seize control of the northern portion of the country.
Aguelhok was among the first to fall when Tuareg rebels aided by Islamist groups occupied the region this year.
Months later, two groups with ties to al Qaeda hijacked the separatist uprising by the local Tuareg movement. The two groups now control two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of Texas that includes the towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.
Islamists have since imposed a harsh form of Sharia law that bans drinking, music and sports on television. Most residents in the area are Muslims, but have protested against the strict form of Sharia as Islamists remain determined to apply it.
“We don’t have to answer to anyone over the application of Sharia. This is the form of Islam practiced for thousands of years,” Toure said. “The fact that we are building a new country on the base of Sharia is just something the people living here will have to accept.”
The stonings are illegal, according to the following translation of the Koran .. where similar text appears to endorse death, Jesus tells us to err on the side of mercy, the families of those ppl so unjustly treated have recourse to capital retribution, similarly as per the instruction in the Koran
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful
The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog them each a hundred stripes
The Koran, Surah 24, Verse 2
Slay not the life which Allah hath forbidden save with right
Whoso is slain wrongfully, We have given power unto his heir
The Koran, Sura 17, Verse 31
Cast truth at falsehood
The Koran, Chapter 21, verse 18
Moreover the Koran instructs believers to “cast truth at falsehood,” the 911 attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden, were perpetrated by Zionist Jews, who infiltrated the US social and political hierarchy at every level, and American traitors, the wars like the stonings, are illegal ..
Mossad agents filming the drama amid “evident Jewbilation,” 60,000 or so Jews absent from their workstations at the WTC on the day, says Jews did it .. the wars against the Moslem world in alleged retaliation, are at the behest of the same Jews who perped the attacks .. abortion is genocide
Martin Luther & Coretta King, were in a snipers nest Dallas Texas, 22 November 1963, at the assassination of President Kennedy, whose beautiful wife had so graciously invited them into her home at the White House, just weeks before
False Moslems who fail to “hurl truth at falsehood,” are described elsewhere in the Koran as “lower than the beasts of the field,” I just call ‘em wogs