The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock

“At Sankore Square in Timbuktu, a man and a women got 100 lashes for having had a child outside of marriage,” said local official Mohamed Ould Baby.

“People were watching it was like a show. I was there, I saw the youths arriving at the square, I saw them being whipped, it is the first time I have seen something like that.” 

The official said Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) carried out the punishment.

Ansar Dine, which seized control of the north of Mali flanked by other rebel groups, has been implementing strict Islamic law, sharia, since late March, but this is the first time a couple has been punished in this fashion.

They have asked women to wear veils, whipped smokers and destroyed cartons of cigarettes while banning the sale of alcohol.

According to sharia, or Islamic law, 100 lashes of a whip is the punishment for “fornicators” or those who have sex outside of marriage.

A hospital source in Timbuktu said the couple had sought treatment at the hospital after the beating.

An Islamic police official in the town said six other women who had had children outside of marriage would soon be “punished by Islamic law”. 

The age of the children was not mentioned, however with Ansar Dine only in charge for about three months, they would have been conceived before the group seized the city.

While majority Muslim, Mali has long been a secular and moderate culture, with the ancient city of Timbuktu a meeting point for various tribes and religions.

The vast north of Mali, larger than France, was seized by Islamist and Tuareg rebels in a lightning advance which took advantage of a coup in Bamako in the south on March 22.

The two groups have different objectives: The secular Tuareg want independence for their traditional homeland, and the Islamists want sharia.

The northern desert has long been plagued by drug trafficking and other criminal activities and in recent years has become the base of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which has kidnapped many westerners in neighbouring Sahel countries.

Ansar Dine has openly allied with AQIM, sparking fears a breakaway state could become a hive of terrorist activity.

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Jun 21, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock
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Phew! In mzansi half the population would have had thier a$$es whipped, me included................


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Jun 21, 2012

Bumboklaat

This is utter madness. extremists are mad!
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Jun 21, 2012

Msiphos00

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock
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Phew! In mzansi half the population would have had thier a$$es whipped, me included................
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I like this comment
Myself included yeahhhhh
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Jun 21, 2012

Ubufebe

@MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
Not too late to whip you, you want me to pay you a visit hehehehehe
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Jun 21, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@Msiphos00

All nine provinces the clinics and hospitals would have been "overflooding" with people seeking bum treatment..........
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Jun 21, 2012

Candyboy

@The Kinky One

one delicious whip cuming up......*winks*
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Jun 21, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@Ubufebe and Candyboy

Naughty.......
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Jun 21, 2012

Ubufebe

@MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
Actually they dont get whipped on their b.ums hehehehe
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Jun 21, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

A discussion between an angry dad and his pregnant daughter:

Dad: O re mpa ena ke accident?
Lerato: Eya papa
Dad: O mpolella gore o fumane P!P! e eme tseleng wa e thula ka KU.KU? Nonsense maan!
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Jun 21, 2012

thathakonke

It is clear that they are judging them and carrying on as if their are perfect. Remember what Jesus said to the crowd that wanted to stone that woman>>>He said anyone who has not sinned or has no sin they can throw a stone upon her, but the crowd left
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