Somalia: 32 arrested and whipped for Dancing

by Infidelesto on November 15, 2008 · Comments

Ah the glorious humane form of government: Islamic Law

Yahoo News

Islamist insurgents whipped 32 people in Somalia Saturday after arresting them for taking part in a traditional dance in rebel-held territory south of the capital Mogadishu

Fighters enforcing a strict form of sharia law have been slowly advancing on the city, raising the stakes in their two-year rebellion and undermining fragile U.N.-brokered peace talks to end 17 years of chaos in the Horn of Africa nation.

Last month, they stoned to death a young woman accused of adultery in the rebel-controlled southern port of Kismayu.

Islamist spokesman Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Adow said those arrested had been warned several times against dancing.

“We arrested 25 women and seven men who were dancing near Balad (town). We released them after whipping them. We warned them many times, but they wouldn’t listen,” he told Reuters.

“The dancing of men and women together is illegal and totally against Islam. We neither killed them nor injured them, but only whipped them according to the Islamic law,”Adow said.

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  • jennyjen
    I'm flashing back to footloose....maybe Kevin Bacon can save us from Islam :P

    @Jeff- LMAO! Excellent comparison!
  • Tonto
    I saw a video that proves they like donkeys too.  I think they like animals because the animals won't tell on them.  And, when they tire of them, or the critters resist too much, they can sell them or kill them and eat them.
  • How many whip lashes should a nanny goat get for getting raped by a Muslim male?  Should a raped nanny goat be stoned to death as what happened to a 13 year old little girl, recently, that was raped by Muslim male animals?
  • Tonto
    Jeff, do they still make that stuff?  Nasty.  This whipping business must be another fine example of "The Religion Of Peace".  Probably not so much about dancing as dancing but about dancing being part of a non-muz ceremony, and that's what they want to stamp out.  What wonderful aspirations muz have....make the whole world as miserable as they are.  For some, there is little enough joy in this life.
  • Muslim "culture" is like calling maddog 2020 a "Premium Wine."
  • Joan
    Yes, it is their culture, not in tune with the west at all.

    Joan
  • Chris
    But....but....it's their culture....
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