Somali woman stoned for adultery

Janesy B · 18 Nov 2009 at 16:52

Robbie G said:
May I ask why you quoted me...?

What's Sharon's Law?

I think you mean Sharia Law

G-MAN2004 · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:00

How is it adultery when she was divorced? Or am I being stupid?

Are they saying that she can never have another partner again, just because she's already been married?

Robbie G said:
May I ask why you quoted me...?

Sharon's Law? Who's she and why has she got her own law?

antijoke · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:01

G-MAN2004 said:
How is it adultery when she was divorced? Or am I being stupid?

Are they saying that she can never have another partner again, just because she's already been married?

Pretty much. It's pretty

mollymoo · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:01

G-MAN2004 said:
How is it adultery when she was divorced? Or am I being stupid?

Are they saying that she can never have another partner again, just because she's already been married?

Pretty much yeah. It's considered adultery to have an affair even as a divorcee. It's a strange world they live in.

Participant · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:03

Sharon's Law was not a typo, it's just what I call it! I thought it was common slang?! Everyone round these har parts calls it that!

mollymoo · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:03

RDM said:
Possibly because the idea of a wife as "property" isn't really something I would like to go back to. What benefit would there be to criminalising adultry?

Plus how many hypocrites would there be in law enforcement?

G-MAN2004 · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:03

Wow, that's pretty crazy.

Just thinking about it, is there actually anything good that has come out of that backward, barbaric place?

Participant · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:04

G-MAN2004 said:
Wow, that's pretty crazy.

Just thinking about it, is there actually anything good that has come out of that backward, barbaric place?

Black Hawk Down?

Uriel · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:04

Regarding the actual stoning bit - I'm with Jesus on this one

antijoke · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:06

Robbie G said:
Sharon's Law was not a typo, it's just what I call it! I thought it was common slang?! Everyone round these har parts calls it that!

IIRC you are not a million miles from me, I have never heard it called that here. Probably your backwater village.

GingerNinja1989 · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:09

"His pregnant girlfriend was spared, until she gives birth."

And I suppose they have super-babies who can fend for themselves immediately?

They really don't seem to consider the consequences of these so-called punishments.

Deific · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:10

bledd. said:
"pregnant single teenage mother getting stoned every day" doesn't count mate

rofl

mollymoo · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:11

GingerNinja1989 said:
"His pregnant girlfriend was spared, until she gives birth."

And I suppose they have super-babies who can fend for themselves immediately?

They really don't seem to consider the consequences of these so-called punishments.

They were saving her for a lashing not a stoning, for sex before marriage, the other woman got stoned for adultery.

markweatherill · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:18

QUOTE=anticonscience
Frankly awful form of justice, I say justice it isn't justice at all, I wouldn't even know what to call this.

'Warlordism'?

dangerstat · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:18

The thing that angers me about this, is that the West and all those countries that insist they want to help those that cannot help themselves won't touch Somalia with a barge pole, and it's these types of places where boots on the ground would actually be protecting people. The the UN, US and UK etc want to talk about "making the world a better place" they need to be reacting to things like this. Sometimes foreign policy really ****es me off.

mollymoo · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:20

dangerstat said:
The thing that angers me about this, is that the West and all those countries that insist they want to help those that cannot help themselves won't touch Somalia with a barge pole, and it's these types of places where boots on the ground would actually be protecting people. The the UN, US and UK etc want to talk about "making the world a better place" they need to be reacting to things like this. Sometimes foreign policy really ****es me off.

Do what though?

antijoke · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:20

dangerstat said:
The thing that angers me about this, is that the West and all those countries that insist they want to help those that cannot help themselves won't touch Somalia with a barge pole, and it's these types of places where boots on the ground would actually be protecting people. The the UN, US and UK etc want to talk about "making the world a better place" they need to be reacting to things like this. Sometimes foreign policy really ****es me off.

Remember the last time they tried to help in Somalia? Might explain why they are reluctant to get involved again.

See Black Hawk Down.

GingerNinja1989 · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:21

mollymoo said:
They were saving her for a lashing not a stoning, for sex before marriage, the other woman got stoned for adultery.

Ahh right, I stand corrected

Tefal · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:24

dangerstat said:
The thing that angers me about this, is that the West and all those countries that insist they want to help those that cannot help themselves won't touch Somalia with a barge pole, and it's these types of places where boots on the ground would actually be protecting people. The the UN, US and UK etc want to talk about "making the world a better place" they need to be reacting to things like this. Sometimes foreign policy really ****es me off.

Umm didn't the un/us try to help there get loads of their people killed an in the end gave up?

dangerstat · 18 Nov 2009 at 17:27

mollymoo said:
Do what though?

Whatever it takes to stop this type of cruelty to the innocent people of Somali. Haven't "the west" got about 30 ships off their cost to stop those pirates? Sure we could mount some sort of offensive, even if it's soley using air power. The point is we have to show "You will not go unpunished for this"

anticonscience said:
Remember the last time they tried to help in Somalia? Might explain why they are reluctant to get involved again.

Sure and what lesson does that send to the world eh? If you down a few American helicopters and kill a few marines you've got carte blanche to commit terrible crimes against your own people.