Yet another teenage girl has lost her life to brutal acts of inhumanity in the name of a senseless and rabid brand of Islam. 13 year old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was recently stoned to death over an unproven charge of adultery. The execution took place in a packed stadium in the port city of Kismayu in southern Somalia —an area controlled by a radical Islamist militia. Twice a victim, the girl was first raped by three men, and then put to death at the hands of a merciless criminal justice system that is rooted in the most archaic notions of guilt, crime and punishment.
Although Duhulow was a rape victim, the tragic incident nonetheless sheds light on the numerous fallacies existing in Sharia law over adultery and rape as criminal offenses. The two are often treated as one and the same, which is why so many rape victims suffer the same fate as young Duhulow. Rape is deemed "adultery without consent" placing the onus on the rape victim to prove her innocence by providing four Muslim adult male witnesses. Often there is no such "proof" of rape. The victim is then left with an adultery charge.
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