https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/unmarried-couple-stoned-to-death-mali-islamic-law

Unmarried couple stoned to death in Mali for ‘violating Islamic law’

The man and woman were put in two holes dug by ringleaders before four people attacked them, local official says


A man walks down a street in the Kidal region of Mali. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
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AFP in Bamako
Thursday 18 May 2017 05.02 AEST Last modified on Thursday 18 May 2017 05.15 AEST
An unmarried couple have been stoned to death in public in north-east Mali, in the first such incident since jihadi groups were driven out of the region.

Jihadis seized key northern cities in Mali in March 2012, and though they were driven out by a French-led military intervention in 2013, Islamist groups continue to make their presence felt with frequent attacks on domestic and foreign forces.

“The Islamists dug two holes where they put the man and the woman who lived maritally without being married,” said a local official. “They were stoned to death.”


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The execution happened in Taghlit, close to Aguelhok in the Kidal region, on Tuesday. The same source told AFP that members of the public were invited to take part.

“Four people threw stones at them until they died,” they said.

Another local official said the ringleaders had accused the unmarried couple of violating “Islamic law”, which requires punishment by stoning.

During their brief control of key towns in the north, jihadist groups imposed a version of Sharia law which forced women to wear veils and set whipping and stoning as punishment for transgressions.

In July 2012, the Al-Qaida-linked Ansar Dine group stoned a couple in public in Aguelhok they had accused of having children outside marriage.

The Malian Association for the Defence of Human Rights described Tuesday’s stoning as “cowardly murder”.

“This is barbaric. The people who did this should be arrested and put on trial,” said Oumar Diakite, an AMDH official.

The opposition Parena party meanwhile noted that 309 people had been killed since the beginning of the year by armed groups, describing “alarm at the deterioration of the security situation” two years after the signature of a peace deal.

That accord was aimed at ending successive uprisings by Tuareg rebels, who signed the deal along with the government and pro-Bamako militias in the hope of bringing stability to the north.

The last Tuareg rebellion in 2012 was hijacked by the Islamists, throwing the country into chaos.

The stoning comes on the eve of an expected visit to Mali by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who is due to meet French troops stationed there on Thursday or Friday.

A UN mission known by its acronym Minusma has also been stationed in the west African country since 2013 and is considered the world body’s most dangerous active peacekeeping deployment.

Fck these fvcking Islamist psychopaths man. Mali is smack bang right next to Naija this is happening right next to the Northern States. Hell it is probably happening IN the Northern States. The salafist Islam is growing like a weed!

Isl** is truly a religion of peace-loving murderers

And dis z d kind of tin d wnt 2 impose on nigerians,who made human judge in dis matter,anybody planning such tin sharia or sheriff law thunder 4rm above dt has being gymin should scatter nd totally destroy both d plan nd d people makin such plan.

NwaObinkita:
Isl** is truly a religion of peace-loving murderers

The whole religion of peace thing is so pathetic, I don't see how muslims can't see it. The word selam ("peace" in Fus'ha Arabic is ontologically related to the word Islam ("submission". The muslim definition of "peace" is different to other cultures' and religions' definitions of peace.

When Muhammad and later Islamic caliphates invaded and pillaged other nations, they would send a message stating "Aslim Teslam" which means "Submit and have peace", or "submit to us and have peace".

This is what muslims mean when they say 'religion of peace'. Not peace as in "non-violent, calm and filled with clarity".

No, what they mean by peace is "Submit to us and submit to our religion Islam, or we will kill you." The artificial "peace" of murderers and conquerors.


Some people in recent years have made up a response to this phrase: "lan astaslem" "لن استسلم" which means I will never submit/ I will never surrender/ I will never be a muslim in Arabic.

Madness, madness, nothing but madness

The Islamic curse