Amnesty: Rape girl, 13, killed for adultery
Stoning a gang rape victim, Amnesty International Report
November 1, 2008 - MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.
It hard to come to senses after news like this knowing that it was Islam that introduced righteousness to a then pagan community. For thousands of years stoning to death and nailing on a cross (in Palestine) were the most common ways of death penalty, I suppose since Stone Age.
Jesus, who is also a Prophet for Muslims like all the other Prophets of Christianity said: “If any of you have not committed a sin you can throw the first stone at her.” (Bible, John 8:1-3)
(Painting: Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery, by Vasiliy Polenov )(
The Story in the Bible- The Adulterous Woman. (John 8:1-3)It was about a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and had to stand in front of the teachers of the law and Pharisees and also Jesus, and they said that “In our law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death,” and then they put all the pressure on Jesus by saying what do you think, and then said to Jesus, so that they could accuse him, but they didn’t trap Jesus. Jesus then said “If any of you have not committed a sin you can throw the first stone at her.” The older people left first and eventually everybody had gone, and there was just Jesus and the woman left. Jesus said to her “Where are they all, there is no one left to condemn you,” and then said ” I don’t condemn you either, go, but do not sin again.”
As true Muslims believe in ALL the Prophets before Phophet Mohammed in my opinion this is a significant statement from Jesus. And most importantly it does not contradict the Quran.
In the Quran the stoning of an adulterous woman is not advised. “And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death comes close to them or God opens some way for them.” (Quran 4:15)
Some extreme branches of Islam still practice the stoning to death. In their understanding its justification must be based on Hadiths, because in the Quran there is no mentioning of it.
“Surely those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed in this world and hereafter, and they shall have a grievous chastisement.” (Qur’an 24:23)
“And those who speak evil things of the believing men and the believing women without their having earned (it), they are guilty indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin.” (Q. 33:58)
I pray to God, the Allmighty, that all Muslims would finally start realizing the real Teaching of Islam,righteousness and human rights.
Salaam, Mona
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Edit: The complete story on BBC News from Somalia. Her 62-year-old aunt told the BBC that the teenager had in fact been raped by three armed men – and she took Asha to the police station to report it.
“I don’t know what crime she committed other than being raped – and I was not even allowed to see her body.” - Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow’s aunt
“They are wrong if they committed a kidnap. They will have to be punished under Sharia law.”- Hiiran’s al-Shabab Chairman Sheikh Ali Dheere
