Aceh’s Shariah Savagery Shames Indonesia, Again!

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Anyone who cares about Indonesia’s reputation will have shuddered anew at the news from the barbarous province infamous for its shariah iniquities.

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  The Sharia Hell of Aceh!

• Seven men and six women were publicly caned in the front yard of the Al Ikhlas Mosque…

• …Banda Aceh deputy mayor Zainal Arifin and hundreds of residents witnessed the public punishment...

• …the convicts were guilty of inappropriate acts, including khalwat (affectionate contact by an unmarried couple) and ikhtilat (intimacy or mixing) in violation of Islamic bylaws.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/10/17/13-people-caned-for-indecency-in-aceh.html

Which is to say, none of these gals was probably even kissing a guy.

According to Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah laws, unmarried Muslims who meet in private can be charged with “khalwat,” or “close proximity,” which carries fines and prison sentences of several months. Campaign against Cupid targets Malaysia’s Muslims

That’s in Malaysia, but the fanatics there are little different from their fellow-fanatics in Aceh.

Maybe those poor kids weren’t even holding hands, just sitting with a boy-friend, or just a boy who happens to be a friend, all by themselves on a park bench.

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Religious police have traditionally enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places, arresting those that commit the crime of ikhtilat, or “mixing.” Second-Class Citizens

That’s talking about Arabs, but Aceh is in many respects more Arabian than Indonesian.

Yet let’s be fair to the savages. They are not without some tiny tincture of humanity. 

The caning of a 14^th convict was delayed due to her pregnancy and is set to be carried out after she has given birth.

Deputy mayor Zainal asserted that the punishment was meant to teach people a lesson so that they would not violate Islamic law.

May God forgive these cruel creeps, because no civilised mortal should.

I grow weary sometimes of recording the antics of the primitive authorities up there on what they delight in calling the Verandah of Mecca.

But I feel obliged to do so.

Decent Indonesians, I know, share my revulsion, not at the punishments, because a good sound thrashing would be work well done on various thug-gangs all over the archipelago, like the IslamoNazi hoodlums in my fave photo…

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.., but at the absurd ‘offences’ the fanatics use to provide slobbering bigot audiences with the Acehnese equivalent of the ‘circus’ element of the ‘bread and circuses’ policy operated by dissolute Roman emperors two thousand years ago.

And the ‘bread?’  

Well, the quite numerous gross pigs in Aceh convicted of corruption seem never to get whipped. Such welcome scenes could be televised and would probably break all records in terms of nationwide viewing figures.

And the cheers would be deafening!