--- "Isatou B. Jallow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It saddened me everytime I read about Sufiyatu. Like
> many others I have been
> wondering about the man who made her pregnant. As
> the saying goes “it takes
> two to tango”. She couldn’t have done it all by
> herself.
>
> Just like brother Habib said, my father used to tell
> me that 3 people has to
> witness the act for it to be to be used in any
> Sharia court. He (my father)
> went on further to tell me that this was done to
> protect women, because then
> for example a husband can’t just accuse his wife of
> committing adultery. He
> has to produce 3 people that have witnessed the act.
> Reading this story, I
> think this is the kind of situation Islam had in
> mind when they wrote this
> law. How can there be justice in this when the three
> witnesses cannot be
> produced?
>
> This makes me wonder what kind of Sharia these
> people are practicing. I have
> always said that Islam is the most misinterpreted
> religion but I think this
> one beats it all. To hear those leaders talk about
> how bad adultery is and to
> know how notorius Nigerian men are when it comes to
> playing around is so
> hypocritical. They are talking as if it’s all the
> fault of the woman. Some are
> saying that it’ll stop others from doing it. I
> wonder how this would stop it
> when it’s just the woman who’s been punished. This
> would just make it ok for
> other men to do it knowing that they can get away
> from it. I have fear and
> pain for my sisters in that part of Nigeria. These
> men are using the religion
> as a controlling mechanism, which puts all that
> women have worked for, many
> years’ back. I shiver when I read about the eplicit
> describtion from one of
> the men on how this stoning would be eventually
> carried.
>
> I pray that the Nigerian Supreme Court would throw
> this case out and therefore
> spare the life of Sufiyatu.
>
> Isatou
>
>
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 Greetings
Well said Isatou.It is sad indeed to stone a human
being to death for committing adultry.This is beyond
the pale and must be eradicated immediatetly.To
paraphrase you,I hope the Nigerian supreme court will
intervene and stop this nonsense.
Weyeh.

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