From the BBC:
Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.
An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby....
This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year.
Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court.
"He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving," an eyewitness told the BBC.
The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after.
When men are stoned to death, they're generally buried up to the waist. For women, it's up to the neck: wouldn't want the breasts to be revealed.
In October, 2008, a girl, Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow was buried up to her neck at a football stadium, then stoned to death in front of more than 1,000 people. The stoning occurred after she had allegedly pleaded guilty to adultery in a shari`ah court in Kismayo, a city controlled by Islamist insurgents. According to the insurgents she had stated that she wanted shari`ah law to apply.
However, other sources state that the victim had been crying, that she begged for mercy and had to be forced into the hole before being buried up to her neck in the ground. Amnesty International later learned that the girl was in fact 13 years old and had been arrested by al-Shabab militia after she had reported being gang-raped by three men.
No doubt this is all the fault of George Bush or somebody in the West. It couldn't possibly be the product of a barbaric ideology which has got nothing to do with the West, could it?
Posted by: Bob-B | November 07, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Re the Duhulow case I recall that there were reports of a young child who ran from the crowd being shot dead by one of the guards. When the brown stuff was hitting the proverbial fan we were assured by some spokesman or other that the matter would be investigated and the guard responsible suitably dealt with.
Does anyone know the outcome of one that I wonder.
Posted by: Gwilym Williams | November 08, 2009 at 01:39 PM
oh my fucking days i HATE THE PEOPLE WHO KILL OTHER PEOPLE. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF JAIL AS JUSTICE. YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR.
Posted by: gemma | May 13, 2010 at 05:01 PM