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Crowd cheers as woman is brutally caned for being seen near man who wasn't her husband
Crowd cheers as woman is brutally caned for being seen near man who wasn't her husband
Nur Elita, 20, had to be taken away in an ambulance after being beaten in public outside her mosque under Sharia law
Horror: Nur Elita was brutally and publicly beating for daring to be see with a man who wasn't her husband
A crowd cheered as a young woman screamed in agony as she was repeatedly canedin punishment for being in 'close proximity' to a man she wasn't married to.
Nur Elita, 20, had to be removed from Baiturrahumim Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in an ambulance after she was brutally punished for allegedly showing affection towards another university student.
Under Sharia law, men and women who are unmarried and unrelated are not allowed to get too close.
Brutally: The student was beaten outside Baiturrahim Mosque
After being brought to the stage as the crowd cheered, the woman was forced to kneel down while a masked man repeatedly whipped her with the cane.
She received five lashes and at the end of the punishment could be seen lying on the floor doubled over in pain.
Also being caned was Wahyudi Saputra, 23, the man she was accused of getting too close to.
He was forced to stand while being whipped.
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Brutal: Her friend was also beaten for being in 'close proximity' with her
Four other men were also forced to endure the punishment for gambling, which is also outlawed under Sharia law.
According to the Jakarta Post , the caning ceremony was carried out in front of the deputy mayor of Banda Aceh Zainal Arifin.
Collapsed: The young woman was so badly injured she was taken to hospital
Mayor Zainal explained to the crowd these punishments were not merely for show but were to be taken as a lesson by everyone.
He said: “Take these punishments as a lesson. What has been done by these convicts should not be taken as an example. And, I hope their canings in Meuraxa district today will be the last ever."
Sadistic: Other people were caned for gambling offences
Banda Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to implement Sharia Law, which was first introduced in 2003 following the province’s awarding of special autonomy status.
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A crowd cheered as a young woman screamed in agony as she was repeatedly canedin punishment for being in 'close proximity' to a man she wasn't married to.
Nur Elita, 20, had to be removed from Baiturrahumim Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in an ambulance after she was brutally punished for allegedly showing affection towards another university student.
Under Sharia law, men and women who are unmarried and unrelated are not allowed to get too close.
Brutally: The student was beaten outside Baiturrahim Mosque
After being brought to the stage as the crowd cheered, the woman was forced to kneel down while a masked man repeatedly whipped her with the cane.
She received five lashes and at the end of the punishment could be seen lying on the floor doubled over in pain.
Also being caned was Wahyudi Saputra, 23, the man she was accused of getting too close to.
He was forced to stand while being whipped.
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Sharia Law is alive and well in the UK as investigation uncovers shocking details
When one woman asked for help with her abusive husband, one judge allegedly laughed and said: "Why did you marry such a person?"
Muslim man arrives at Birmingham Central Mosque
An Islamic judge "laughed" at a domestic violence victim who had gone to him seeking help and asked her "Why did you marry such a man?", it has been claimed.
The shocking allegations have been revealed in a report into the use of sharia councils in the UK which also claims men only need to say "I divorce you" three times to separate from their wives while women need the sanction of clerics.
Dutch scholar Machteld Zee managed to get unparalleled access to a number of the religious courts currently operating in the UK - thought to number around 30.
Her report, entitled Choosing Sharia? Multiculturalism, Islamic Fundamentalism and British Sharia Councils which has been seen by the Independent newspaper, also claims one judge, known as a qadi at a sharia council also said UK law did not matter in cases of divorce.
In one court in east London, it is claimed the qadi told a couple who had already obtained a civil divorce that the paper counted for nothing.
According to the report, when asked by the husband about Muslims abiding by the laws of the land when living in a non-Muslim country, the judge replied: "Secular judge does not do religious divorces.
Fears: The report made a series of shocking claims"We have Islam. Secular courts do not have Islamic laws. Can a kaffir [non-Muslim] come in and judge Islamic matters?"
Ms Zee was granted access to two 'courts' - one at the Islamic Council in Leyton, east London, and another at the Birmingham Central Mosque.
Attending around 15 hours of hearings the researcher was able to examine more than a dozen cases and got to interview nine Islamic judges.
In one case the Independent reported the council in east London, Ms Zee claims to have witnesses a woman asking a qadi if he could intervene to stop her husband physically and verbally abusing her.
Ms Zee said: "She says: ‘He oppressed me to the maximum, he is violent, [and] physically treats me like a dog’. She wears a headscarf on his request.
"With ‘every little thing’ he threatens to divorce her. He is abusive both verbally and physically.
"She says he might have 10 wives for all she knows. He is currently in Tunisia. [The qadi] laughs a bit: ‘Why did you marry such a person?’."
According to the report, one qadi told Ms Zee that the council in east London deals with around 600 to 800 cases each year of women seeking divorce who are on the receiving end of "violence or maltreatment".
The qadi said: "As long as marriage is sacred, reconciliation is our job."
Protest: The subject of Sharia law is a divisive on in the UK
The findings from the report are due to go before Parliament in the new year.
In her report, seen by the Independent, Ms Zee claims judges at the religious courts “uphold the theory and practice of the strong hold men have over women”.
She also claims the courts do little more than set out to frustrate the wives of men who do not want them to leave - keeping the woman in an unhappy marriage.
In another incident, Ms Zee claims she saw another woman ask for a religious divorce from a husband she had not seen for four years.
The woman had allegedly already handed back an £8,000 dowry and £30,000 on top.
It is claimed the qadi responded: "Debt is not a cause for divorce. You should help him. Why don’t you pay him more?”.
In her report, Ms Zee tells of having a completely different experience in Birmingham and when she recounts her time there to the qadis in the Midlands, they reacted with horror.
She said: "I told them about the Islamic Sharia Council case where the qadi told a couple that kaffirs cannot rule on Islamic matters and that the woman’s civil divorce means nothing under Islam.
Claims: Ms Zee alleges one judge laughed when a woman asked for help
"They seemed to be appalled. ‘We totally disagree. We cannot have two laws. This is totally wrong. We live as British citizens and accept the law of the land'."
According to the Independent, the Islamic Sharia Council in London strongly disputes the findings in the report.
Mirror Online has contacted them for comment.
Khola Hasan, a scholar at the council who has worked there for six years, said: “We are there for a reason, and people come to us.
"We show them sympathy, we certainly don’t condone domestic violence or force women to go back: we are there to get women out of religious marriages.”
The council also prominently displays anti-domestic violence messages and links to support networks on its website.
Writing in the report, Ms Zee claims Sharia councils do little more than support men.
Help: Many Muslims seek Sharia courts to help with matters
She said: "In a toxic mix of religious fundamentalism, culture and tight-knit communities, sharia councils uphold the theory and practice of the strong hold men have over women.
“Sharia councils may ‘help’ women who want a divorce, but it is a solution to a problem that they fuel and one that they seek to preserve.
"Moreover, that religious divorces are sharia councils’ ‘core business’ does not in the least bit mean that they are actually willing to help women obtain one.
"In fact, they are known to frustrate women in their requests, especially if the husband is unwilling to co-operate.
She concludes: "There are, in fact, two separate legal orders functioning [in the UK], of which one currently operates in the ‘shadow of the law’."
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