From Katarina Hoije, For CNNupdated 10:09 AM EDT, Thu August 2, 2012
Islamists: Two stoned to death for committing adultery in Mali
Bamako, Mali (CNN) -- Islamists in control of northern Mali said they forced a man and a woman into two holes and stoned them to death for committing adultery in the lawless region.
Witnesses watched quietly as Islamists executed the two by pelting them with rocks in the remote Aguelhok town, according to a local resident.
"I don't know how many rocks they threw or for how long it went on before they were both dead," said Haman Maiga, a resident of Aguelhok who witnessed the stoning. "No one dared to try and stop the Islamists."
The woman had two small children, a boy and a girl, according to Maiga.
A leader of a radical Islamic group in the region said Sharia law condemns relationships outside marriage.
"The man and the woman, who were both married (to other people), were having an affair," said Aliou Toure, the Islamist commissioner in Gao. "They were stoned to death, the punishment for infidelity, according to Sharia, Islamic law."
The stoning Sunday is the first reported Sharia killing since al Qaeda-linked Islamists took control of the north.
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Mali has been in a state of Chaos since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
The coup leader stepped down in May and transferred power to a civilian transitional government, but uncertainty looms.
Ethnic Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants have taken advantage of the chaos to seize control of the northern portion of the country.
Mali becoming bitterly divided
Aguelhok was among the first to fall when Tuareg rebels aided by Islamist groups occupied the region this year.
Months later, two groups with ties to al Qaeda hijacked the separatist uprising by the local Tuareg movement. The two groups now control two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of Texas that includes the towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.
Islamists have since imposed a harsh form of Sharia law that bans drinking, music and sports on television. Most residents in the area are Muslims, but have protested against the strict form of Sharia as Islamists remain determined to apply it.
"We don't have to answer to anyone over the application of Sharia. This is the form of Islam practiced for thousands of years," Toure said. "The fact that we are building a new country on the base of Sharia is just something the people living here will have to accept."
In addition to the killing, Islamist militants have gone on a rampage for months, destroying sacred tombs in the region and vowing to target more.
Read more: International outrage grows over destruction of Mali shrines
In July, they ordered residents to leave the area and razed two tombs in Timbuktu. Two months prior, elderly men kept watch over the main library after Islamists burned a different tomb in another attack in the same town.
Islamist militants regard such shrines as idolatrous and thus prohibited in their religion. They especially target Sufi shrines, which they believe are sacrilegious. Sufism is a mystical dimension of Islam considered offbeat and frowned upon by Islamic hardliners.
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Barbaric, Uncivilized and Inhumane Act of Stoning Two to Death
Radical Islamist in Mali, stoned two people for allegedly being charged with "Adultery".
Think about that for a second, a man and a woman, were placed in a hole, and people threw rocks at them until the rocks struck the two people enough times to kill them, which means, there had to have been many head shots that indented the two skulls, which would have split the skull, allowing tissue and even brain matter to be displayed.
There can't be a more barbaric torture known to man, and we aren't talking about a punishment that took place when the "Vikings" were roaming the earth, pillaging, raping and burning towns.
This Inhuman act of "Stoning" is taking place today, by these radical Islamist, who claim that they are acting on the behalf of their religion.
Based on this act of stoning a couple who have been accused of a human act of having sex, even if they were not married and or were committing adultery, stoning is not the correct type of punishment, in fact, stoning a human being isn't approvable in any type of human act or crime, to include Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo, Norway.
It's Time to take the offense on Radical Islamist
Ok, I think that the world have seen quite enough of these radical islamist and their philosophy of practicing religion that authorizes killing any and all human beings for any reason that these individuals would choose to place as a reason for killing a person or a group of people.
If ever, the world ought to join as one, to seek out a specific nation or a specific group of people, its now and The radical islamist is the group, and once capturing anyone of these groups of people, punish them with "death or life long prison sentencing" somewhere on earth where they can never leave again, a alcatraz island for islamist if you will.
The Radical Islamist murder with no degree of consciousness, no compassion, no empathy and no thresholds or restrictions of age or gender.
Based on the past 20 years worth of evidence of radical islamist methods of destruction and murders around the world the United Nations must take a position on the radical islamist, one that every nation on earth, simply have to concur with,
No Nation is exempt from the radical's focus, especially the nations that these radicals call home, where they rule the citizens based on horror and mass murders.
The United Nations, for the first time since it's inception, have a common foe for all nations that participate as a United Nations Member of any type.
The Radical Islamist is a enemy of all nations on earth, and they have proven that to anyone who hasn't been living under a rock.
A United Nation Military is required to be formed, and with this U.N. Military, their first mission would be to hunt down and kill or capture any "radical islamist" by means that are to be developed by the U.N.'s recommendations for any challenge that could be construed equivalent to a war.
It's time for the world to stop these radical islamist, because it is abundantly clear that the nations that these individuals reside in, are not capable of controlling, or capturing these radical islamist.
The Stoning of two people for allegations of adultery is the last straw, and for any human being who would disagree with the fact that two people were stoned to death for adultery, isn't barbaric, there is something definitely wrong with your thought processes.
Barbaric & Inhuman Behavior cannot be allowed on this earth any longer by any nation, any group or any individual.
In My Opinion
ASKFMB
8/2/2012
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