Muslim woman stoned death

Please refresh the page and retry. A n unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by "Islamists", local officials revealed, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region. Jihadists seized key northern cities in March , and though they were driven out by a French-led military intervention in , Islamist groups continue to make their presence felt with frequent attacks on domestic and foreign forces. T he stoning happened in Taghlit on Tuesday, close to Aguelhok in the Kidal region, and the same source told AFP that members of the public were invited to take part. Another local official said the Islamists had accused the unmarried couple of violating "Islamic law", which requires punishment by stoning. I n July , the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine group stoned a couple in public in Aguelhok who they accused of having children outside marriage.

By Zainab Salbi. Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi American author, founder of Women for Women International a humanitarian organization, and the host of The Nida'a Show, a one hour entertainment and current affairs talk show for women in Arab world. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author. CNN The stoning of Rokhsana , an Afghan woman who was in her early twenties, this week in Afghanistan shed more ugly light on the treatment of women by the Taliban and religious extremists in parts of the Muslim world -- but to try to explain this practice in religions terms will only give legitimacy to those who are violating the very spirit and principle of religion itself. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.

A woman accused of having 11 husbands was stoned to death in Somalia by members of the Islamic militant group Al-Shabab. The woman, Shukri Abdullahi Warsame, was buried up to her neck and pelted with stones until she died, according to reports. Local officials told reporters that the woman had been brought to court by a group of men who all claimed that she was his wife, but that she had not legally divorced anyone. The Islamic group in charge of the southern Somali town where she lived imposed the death penalty.

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