Jumat, 20 April 2012

[inti-net] Yemen: Sharia Supporters Behead 'Sorceress'

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2012/04/yemen-sharia-supporters-behead-sorceress

Yemen: Sharia Supporters Behead 'Sorceress'
by Raymond Ibrahim • Apr 19, 2012 at 4:37 pm

According to the Arabic website Al Shorfa, an al-Qaeda affiliated group in
Yemen, called Ansar al-Sharia (or the "Supporters of Sharia Law") beheaded
a woman on April 11 for "practicing magic and sorcery." Members of the
group broke into the home of Sharifa Amr—a local healer who used natural
herbs to treat sick people—"beheaded her, and then hung her severed head
in front of the home of another popular healer in the region, as a warning
that he might share her fate."

"Supporters of Sharia" wave severed head of "witch."

The remainder of the report notes how several Yemeni officials condemned
the attack—not because it is absurd to murder herbalists-deemed-sorcerers,
but because the "Supporters of Sharia" ironically contradicted Sharia, at
least somewhat.

According to Sheik Jabri Ibrahim, general director of Yemen's Ministry of
Endowments and Guidance, punishing "sorcerers and magicians" can only be
performed after "first summoning the magicians to a council with the ulema
[Sharia scholars], who are obligated to advise and persuade him, showing
him evidence from Sharia that Islam forbids the practice of sorcery and
magic."

But then, if the witchdoctor still refuses to cease and desist practicing
the black arts (also known in the West as "homeopathy"), other legal
(i.e., Sharia-endorsed) actions will be taken against him—including,
evidently, the maximum penalty, execution. In short, al-Qaeda acted
hastily by killing the woman; she should have been given more time and
opportunities to repent before being beheaded.

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