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HutuKing01 wrote:I dont get this from muslim people,why do stonings and killings have to happen in public?
black velvet wrote:It's - Aniga aa isbare
Al Shabaab puts Mogadishu’s rapists and robbers on notice
By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO (email the author)
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Posted Monday, July 6 2009 at 00:00
A few days ago Somalia’s radical al Shabaab insurgents, who control large parts of the country and might well overrun the fragile government in Mogadishu, made an example of four teenage thieves.
The rebels, who follow a strict form of Islamic law, cut a hand and a leg each off the teenagers as punishment for robbery. Earlier, they stoned a rapist to death.
To the human rights community, and to the East African middle class, this is barbarism.
But, I suspect, in the crime-riddled slums, working class quarters, and countrysides in many parts of the region, not to mention Africa, these bloody measures are winning al Shabaab many brownie points.
Abhorrable as al Shabaab’s extreme actions might be, and their alleged links to al-Qaeda notwithstanding, they would probably win elections against many sitting governments in several African countries if the contest was based on the single issue of crime.
In Kenya, in parts of the country like central Kenya where citizens are besieged by criminals and extortion gangs, highly lethal vigilantes have been formed to fight back.
The methods they are using against suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect, for example, make al Shabaab’s amputations look like a sweet scent-filled massage.
In South Africa, another country whose towns have been all but taken over by vicious criminals and rapists, not too long ago a popular people’s vigilante group, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), emerged to clean up the streets.
The reason vigilantism is finding appeal, is that people know that rogue elements in the security services are keepers of the law by day, but at night they are leaders of criminal gangs.
The appeal of citizen action against crime can thus only grow.
For example, though I am a pacifist and oppose the death penalty, I am extremely conflicted where rapists and mass murderers are involved because I think the level of these and other crimes in Africa has reached levels that could destroy our societies.
If al Shabaab had asked me whether the rapist who was stoned to death should be spared and given a life sentence instead, I probably would have offered an ambiguous answer that gave them the impression that I favoured the stoning.
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/ ... /amqqyc/-/
Didn't you read what he did to the little boy? He raped and cut his body into pieces... 
Acuudu Bilaah..
