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Indonesian religious police said on Thursday they had forced a lesbian couple to separate and placed them under surveillance, even though homosexuality is legal in the mainly Muslim country.
The Islamic police force unique to Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra, warned the couple before they were forcibly separated that under Islamic law they could be beheaded.
“We told them that they must be beheaded and burned and their ashes must be thrown away to the sea. We are actually allowed by our religion to kill them,” Southwest Aceh district religious police chief Muddatsir said.
Ranto, 26, and Nuraini, 18, now live in separate villages 36 kilometres apart, he said.
“We're monitoring them closely,” he added.
A village chief has issued the couple an unofficial religious marriage contract in the mistaken belief that Ranto was a man, Muddatsir said.
“It's disgraceful what they've done. Even animals search for the opposite sex,” the district religious police chief said.
The provincial parliament passed Islamic laws authorising the stoning to death of adulterers and the flogging of homosexuals in 2009 but the governor has not signed them into effect.
Liberals in the country of 240 million people say Aceh's sharia laws nevertheless encourage vigilantism and intolerance and are a flagrant breach the constitution. -Sapa-AFP
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Anonymous, wrote
Islam in its pure form is not compatible with the future of human society, it needs to adapt or it will be forever in conflict with anyone who value's freedom and liberty.
Interloper, wrote
So much effort just to keep two people apart. This really is disgusting. Anf the crux of the problem as per usual: "We are actually allowed by our religion to kill them".
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