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oberliner

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4. Indonesia homosexuality fatwa: Ulema Council issues same-sex punishment
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 05:22 PM
Jun 2016

IT IS known for its conservative rule and harsh punishment for anyone daring to break its laws.

But Indonesia’s most influential Muslim clerical organisation has gone one further and issued a fatwa calling for same-sex acts to be punished by caning and even the death penalty.

The semi-official Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) which issued the religious edict equates homosexuality with a curable disease with related sexual acts “that must be heavily punished”.

The council also called gay and lesbians deviants who are affront to the “dignity of Indonesia” according to Human Rights Watch which has expressed grave concerns about the fatwa.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/indonesia-homosexuality-fatwa-ulema-council-issues-samesex-punishment/news-story/e206a9a53acf0944c4de40c61bef3dab

Indonesia's highest Islamic clerical body issues fatwa proposing death penalty for people caught having gay sex

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) said homosexuality is a 'disease'

Indonesia's most prominent Islamic clerical body has issued a fatwa proposing a host of punishments for "homosexual crimes" - including the death penalty.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesias-highest-islamic-clerical-body-issues-fatwa-proposing-death-penalty-for-people-caught-10111564.html

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