A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to death for adultery, the first known case in the country for almost ten years. Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, is appealing against the decision. The majority of stoning sentences are overturned in the high court, though one consequence of the military coup, last October, may be to re-introduce some of the more draconian aspects of sharia law. Death by stoning, prescribed in the Quran for adultery, is predominantly used to punish women, though, since the ‘crime’ of adultery requires two people, we may wonder where the man was. Apologists for this hateful religion should examine their consciences.
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