A couple who had s.ex outside marriage has been stoned to death at the weekend by Islamists in the town of Aguelhok in northern Mali, officials say.
The man and woman were buried up to their necks, then pelted with stones until they died.
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The Islamists in Aguelhok stoned the couple to death in front of about 200 people, officials said.
"I was there. The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the centre of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," a local government official told the AFP news agency.
"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said, adding that the man had shouted out once and then fallen silent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19053442
I've heard from reliable sources that in Saudi Arabia, when someone is having their hand or head chopped, the shariah enforcer shouts "Allah is all merciful" as he takes his swing with his sword.
I wonder if that's what the brutal enforcers said when they mercilessly stoned a young couple with children to death: "Allah is all merciful!". How Orwellian.
You have to love the paradoxical beliefs religious crazies have. To try understand their logic would drive one crazier than the crazies.
