Mali Islamists stone couple to death for adultery

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Mali Islamists stone couple to death for adultery

BAMAKO | Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:30pm EDT

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked Islamic militant group in control of northern Mali stoned to death a married couple accused of engaging in extramarital affairs, the group's spokesman said.

The couple were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok, near the vast West African nation's northern border with Algeria, on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ansar Dine group told Reuters.

"These two people were married and had extra-conjugal relations. Our men on the ground in Aguelhok applied sharia (Islamic law)," said Sanda Ould Bounama, reached by telephone on Monday.

"They both died right away and even asked for this application. We don't have to answer to anyone over the application of sharia," he said.

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[demosincebirth]

1. ...and they want to rule the world with their sharia law?

[tularetom]

2. Hard to believe that people who live in places where they have telephones still do shit like this

But then I'm guessing there are more than a few religious wack jobs here in the good ol USA that would like to do the same thing to adulterers.

They'd freak if you told them they were advocating practicing sharia however.