Islamists in north Mali stone unwed couple to death
Islamists occupying the northern Mali town of Aguelhok stoned an unmarried couple to death in front of about 200 people on Sunday, two local government officials said.
"I was there. The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the centre of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," said a local government official on condition of anonymity.
"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said, adding that the man had shouted out once and then fallen silent.
A second official confirmed the information, saying the couple had two children, the youngest of which was six months old.
"They were living in the bush, they were brought to town by the Islamists who stoned them to death. People came out to watch, there were witnesses," he said, also not wishing to be identified.
The small town in the region of Kidal near the Algerian border was one of the first to be captured by Tuareg separatist rebels on January 24.
Some 82 civilians and soldiers were summarily executed, France said earlier this year, accusing the rebels of using Al-Qaeda style tactics.
The Tuareg rebellion sparked a coup d'etat in March by angry and overwhelmed soldiers, but the chaos only allowed the desert nomads and Islamists fighting on their flanks to seize the country's north, an area larger than France.
The Islamist groups, which experts say are acting under the aegis of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have since chased out the Tuareg separatists and are firmly in control of the region.
AQIM allies Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) are holding Aguelhok.
In Timbuktu they have also implemented strict Islamic law, and have destroyed ancient World Heritage sites, which they consider idolatrous.
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The stonings are illegal,
Martin Timothy
31 Jul 2012 - 10:43
The stonings are illegal, according to the following translation of the Koran, where similar text appears to endorse death, Jesus tells us to err on the side of mercy
The families of those ppl so unjustly treated have recourse to capital retribution, similarly as per the instruction in the Koran
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful
The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog them each a hundred stripes
The Koran, Surah 24, Verse 2
Slay not the life which Allah hath forbidden save with right
Whoso is slain wrongfully, We have given power unto his heir..
The Koran, Sura 17, Verse 31
Cast truth at falsehood..
The Koran: Chapter 21, verse 18
Moreover the Koran instructs believers to "cast truth at falsehood," the 911 attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden were perpetrated by Zionist Jews, who infiltrated the US social and political hierarchy at every level, and American traitors, the wars like the stonings, are illegal ..
Mossad agents filming the drama amid “evident Jewbilation,” 60,000 or so Jews absent from their workstations at the WTC on the day, says Jews did it .. the wars against the Moslem world in alleged retaliation, are at the behest of the same Jews who perped the attacks .. abortion is genocide
Martin Luther & Coretta King, were in a snipers nest Dallas Texas, 22 November 1963, at the assassination of President Kennedy, whose beautiful wife had so graciously invited them into her home at the White House, just weeks before
False Moslems who fail to "hurl truth at falsehood," are described elsewhere in the Koran as "lower than the beasts of the field," I just call 'em wogs
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