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| Southeast Asia |
| Cop rape case sparks debate |
| 2010-01-21 |
| [Straits Times] THE Islamic police force in Indonesia's Aceh province should be disbanded after three officers were charged with gang-raping a woman in custody, rights activists said Wednesday. Activists said the force did nothing but harass women about their clothes and humiliate young unmarried couples, and had now brought shame on the deeply religious province on the northern tip of Sumatra. 'This very shameful act has tarnished the implementation of sharia law in Aceh,' human rights activist Teuku Achmad Fuad said. 'We urge the Aceh government to disband the sharia police as they have failed to do anything useful.' Women's rights activist Evi Narti Zein said: 'The sharia police's role so far only frightens people, especially women without Muslim headscarves or with tight clothes'. The 20-year-old student was allegedly raped in a police cell in East Aceh earlier this month after being arrested with her boyfriend under local laws designed to enforce Islamic morals. Rights activists said the sharia police were not empowered to detain anyone, and could only issue warnings. Provincial Deputy Governor Mohammad Nazar defended the force and said the rape was an isolated incident. Teungku Faisal Ali of the Aceh Ulemas Association, a top Islamic body, said the alleged rapists should be made an 'example' of how sharia law works in Aceh. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 ...and her seeing eye dog. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-21 21:26 |
| #5 They should import Massachusettes Attorney General Marcia Coakley. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-01-21 21:12 |
| #4 Rape is Sharia compliant. Bad ideas have bad consequences. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-21 11:45 |
| #3 What should have happened is that after this incident, a bunch of these police should have been castrated by relatives of the assailed women. That would punch through their nasty, Islamist, male-pig brains. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-01-21 08:58 |
| #2 Ah, the religion of Peace. What we need in America are more of these fine upstanding moral people in their colorful hats. It isnt their fault, they are just "mis-understood". And whats so awful about Moslem police gang raping some hussy with lipstick and a disgusting tank top and high heels? happens all the time when you have moral upstanding Moslems around. Its the lipstick. Disgusting. I got news for you. The good people of Aceh province arent gonna do a damn thing. Disband? Nah...those cops are standing there laughing at you. Tell it to Allah, chumps. |
| Posted by: Pompey the Great 2010-01-21 08:36 |
| #1 Hey, it's SHARIA! It's how Allah TOLD YOU TO LIVE. What don't you understand about this? And you don't like it? Since when does anyone have any right to question the word of Allah? It's encouraging that everywhere they try to implement Sharia cops, they run into human nature as the scumbags love a little bit of power, and use it to lord over others in society. The worst part of human nature devoid of civilization. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-01-21 00:28 |