Al-Shabaab Islamists in Somalia stoned to death a mother-of-eight for cheating on her husband.
The woman reportedly married a second husband and was sentenced to death after her crime.
The Independent reported, via Religion of Peace:
Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabaab has publicly stoned a woman to death in a town in the south for cheating on her husband, an official told Reuters.
Al Shabaab, which has been waging a war for years to topple the Horn of Africa country’s western-backed government, seeks to bring in rule based on its strict interpretation of sharia law.
Sheikh Mohamed Abu Abdalla, al-Shabaab’s governor for Somalia’s Jubba regions in the south, said Habiba Ali Isak, a 30-year-old mother of eight children, was killed by stoning in Sakow on Thursday afternoon…
…Isak lived with her legal husband and children in Hagar village in Jubba, but cheated on her husband after she told him she was travelling to Mogadishu to visit her relatives, Abdalla said.
Her legal husband, Ali Ibrahim, subsequently found out his wife did not go to Mogadishu but instead had married again and was living with another husband in Sakow.
“Her legal husband brought the case to the court. She admitted she illegally married a second husband,” Abdalla said.
