|
|
| October 2, 2010 | Indonesian women caned in public for selling food during Ramadan under sharia law | |
Jakarta: Two Indonesian women were caned in public on Friday for selling food during Muslim festival of Ramadan. According to The Telegraph,
both the women were found guilty of selling food during the fasting hours of Ramadan,
thereby violating Islamic sharia law. Hundreds of people gathered to watch as
22-year-old Rukiah Abdullah and 27-year-old Murni Amris received two and three
lashes respectively at a mosque in the city of Jantho, southeast of the provincial
capital, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. "The two women were found selling rice in a stall
at noon during Ramadan. The sharia forbids selling food during fasting hours at
Ramadan," Marzuki Abdullah, Aceh's sharia police head said. Amris reportedly owned
the food stall where Abdullah was selling the rice. Muslims are supposed to fast
from dawn to dusk during the holy month of Ramadan, and these two women were punished
for violating the rules under the Islamic sharia laws. Aceh, on the northern tip
of Sumatra island, is one of several areas of Muslim-majority Indonesia where
Islamic sharia laws have been adopted. The conservative province passed a law
last year that imposes death by stoning for Muslim adulterers and a law under
which homosexuality is punishable by long prison terms.
|
|
|
|
Visit Indian Travel Sites
Goa,
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh,
Delhi,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh,
Himachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Sikkim,
Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh,
Jammu & Kashmir
Gujarat
Puducherry
|
