Middle East Focus: Shari’a Laws, Elections, Prince of Rub’a el-Khali, Homecoming King. Queen of ………..

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Shari’a Laws, Elections, Prince of Rub’a el-Khali, Homecoming King. Queen of ………..

“ Indonesia's Aceh passes stoning law: Legislators in Indonesia's Aceh province have unanimously approved a law allowing adulterers to be stoned to death. The regional parliament for the devoutly Muslim province on Monday passed the "qanun jinayat", or sharia law for crimes, also allowing for homosexuality to be punishable by long prison terms and people caught having pre-marital sex to receive 100 strokes with a cane. Aceh's parliament is the only legislature in Indonesia - the most populous Muslim nation in the world - to employ sharia (Islamic law)……..
“All members of the 69-seat house voted for the bill…..….”(How come Obama can’t even get all members of his own party’s senators to vote for his bills?)

It would be tempting to say that ‘elections’ and ‘democracy’ lead to such cruel things. One can site Gaza and Iran as well, although the latter has degenerated into a one party system. But then again, most Arab states are shifting to harsher Islamic laws, and they are nor democratic by any measure. In Saudi Arabia they have had much harsher laws than anyone else anywhere, and they have had them forever; and they have never ever had any elections for anything: not for camel-herder, custodian, mufti, royal sidekick, Prince of the Sophomore Class (I have a personal emotional attachment to this one), Prince of Rub’a el-Khali, King of Homecoming, or Queen of the..…
Cheers and Ramadan Kareem
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