Stoned for God

Not that long ago I came across one of those pieces that almost prove the existence of the devil. Almost, but not quite. That is so because the presence of sheer malevolence in itself is never sufficient cause to offset the certain knowledge that the concept of a devil is every bit as ludicrous as its complementary concept of a god.

A young woman of twenty living in Somalia was stoned to death by the merciful men of faith for the heinous crime of having an affair with a man almost ten years her senior. He received 100 lashes. Those of us not brimming with the joyousness of god might fail to understand what was so terrible about that; her crime not the stoning. We need to contemplate a bit more and get in touch with our spiritual selves. Then the spectre of the divine might just lead us to conclude that she did not follow the prophet’s example and marry a child. And for that fall from grace she was showered in the love of Allah as the paradisaical stones rained down upon her in a bid to aid her purification.

What the young woman had already endured must have been traumatic enough. As a result of her relationship with the man she fell pregnant and a still born child was the outcome. The compassionate men of Allah considering this a minor detail stoned her anyway. While the young woman sought her sexual pleasure in a normal human way Allah’s men could only get theirs though bloodletting, each rock hurled an act of sexual prowess. There is I suppose a Marxist explanation for it out there somewhere in the midst of Trot town; Islam, the religion of the poor, found a solution to sexual need that was culturally specific and cheaper than condoms.

No matter how this is twisted the young victim was not butchered out of any sense of love. The cretins of Allah created for themselves a hateful god in order to legitimise their own hate filled behaviour. This is not a creator being worshipped but a creation, manufactured by the hate mob, being utilised to maintain status and social control. Domination theology, no more, no less, in the endless pursuit of submission. As debased and debauched as the mob who made him, the limit of his heavenly intelligence is projected by the type of solution he provides for the non-crime of sex outside marriage. We would imagine that the all knowing, all powerful, all merciful could come up with something much more sophisticated than stoning for those judged as wayward women.

In a country where a leading cleric can call for Muslims to be stoned to death if they fail to pray five times daily, and where only last year a 13 year old girl was reported to have been stoned to death for having been raped, none of this should surprise. The cleric in question probably feared there were not enough adulteresses who could be stoned, so made contingency plans for his thrills.

Whether it is child rape in Ireland or stoning women in Somalia, the thugs of god have struck again.

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