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Somali woman stoned for adultery 
 
A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people.

A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.

He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes.

It is thought to be the second time a woman has been stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.

The group controls large swathes of southern Somalia where they have imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law which has been unpopular with many Somalis.

'Lenient'

According to reports from a small village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to her waist.



The Islamists want to impose a strict version of Sharia on Somalia
She was then stoned to death in front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.

The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue.

Under al-Shabab's interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married - even a divorcee - who has an affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning to death.

An unmarried person who has sex before marriage is liable to be given 100 lashes.

BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says the stoning is at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over the last year.

Earlier this month, a man was stoned to death for adultery in the port town of Merka, south of Mogadishu.

His pregnant girlfriend was spared, until she gives birth.

Last month, two men were stoned to death in Merka after being accused of spying.

President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January.

Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law would be too lenient.

The country has not had a functioning national government for 18 years.

olabowale:

a person who is married is a person who has a spouse. either wife or husband, depending on the gender.

a person who is divorced does not have a spouse until remarried to the former or a new spouse.

the punishment for illegal sex therefore for divorced person is the same for an unmarried person, being fornicator are lashed 100 stripes, and banished for one year from the community.

the punishment for a married person is stoning to death, unless such a person renounces the confession, the stoning must stop, even if the punishment is already on the way being carried out. such a person must not be partially buried before the stoning begins, there are examples that they are free, capable of running because of the pain and shielding to cover!

unfortunately most muslims dont understand islam, coupled with foolish emotion brought about by pure ignorance, the mob mentality of trying to cover up their faults and suffer somebody else for their poor conditions, they do not go back to Allah as in checking everything against His Words, the Quran, and His Messenger as in looking up everything that they see in the Quran for its actualization from the hadith and sunnah.

this people who killed the divorced woman had done evil thing, because she was neither married and she was not allow to move about, since it is not permissable to use a big stone that will just kill the person in one shot, it is not permissable to half bury the guilty in order to carry out the the punishment, while you must listen at all time for the one who is being punished crying out as to take back the guilty pronouncement, whereby the punishment must stop!

that should have been the mercy, an outlet muslims must be looking for in every way, and not killing, vengeance, and hard heartedness.