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Related: About this forumWomen’s marriage baffles Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province
Islamic religious police in Indonesias Aceh province are stumped about how to handle a case of two women who married at the urging of neighbors concerned that one of the roomates was a man and therefore a couple living in sin. Aceh is the only province in the country that applies sharia, or Islamic law.
The women, Nuraini and Rohani, came under pressure as neighbors assumed Rohani was a man because of her appearance and male nickname, Ranto. But after the marriage, suspicions grew that Rohani was actually a woman and local residents turned them in to the police on Sunday.
In the Prophets book, people committing such a thing should be beheaded or thrown into the sea, but we dont have that in our regulations, Muddasir, the head of Acehs religious police, told Reuters on Wednesday. The religious police are responsible for monitoring behavior in the province, often clamping down on skimpy clothing or unmarried couples. Sharia inspired bylaws contain regulations on promiscuity, and adultery can be punished by stoning to death.
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/08/24/womens-marriage-baffles-islamic-police-in-indonesias-aceh-province/
They're just baffled. What to do? This is why we need religion.
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Women’s marriage baffles Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province (Original Post)
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2014
OP
They where released, but required never to see each other again, and will be monitored
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2014
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trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. "Aceh is the only province in the country that applies sharia, or Islamic law."
Surely someone will help us by pointing out that this absolutely had nothing to do with religion?
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)2. O.K. This had absolutely nothing to do with religion.
rug
(82,333 posts)3. Do you have any follow-up since this story was published August 24, 2011?
This is why we need google.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)4. They where released, but required never to see each other again, and will be monitored
By state police to enforce the separation.
rug
(82,333 posts)5. This is the latest news I heard, from August 25, 2011.
http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/sexualminorities/IndonesiaLesbianLovers082511.pdf
Gee, I wonder what prompted him to post this now.
Gee, I wonder what prompted him to post this now.