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Pregnant Muslim widow to receive 100
lashes at Akyem Tafo
April 20, 2015 15:03 Mon
A twenty-three-year-old widow in
Akyem Tafo in the Eastern region is to
be given 100 lashes in public for defying
a major Islamic principle on widowhood
rites, which is known as Iddah.
Ramatu Alhassan is facing the wrath of
Muslim clerics in her community for
getting pregnant while observing Iddah.
The Iddah rites requires that a widow
abstains from sex. However, Ramatu was
found pregnant two months into the
widowhood rites.
Accra based radio station, Starr FM
reported that the clerics in the
community have been angered by the
development and intend subjecting
Ramatu and her boyfriend to public
flogging as punishment.
Deputy Chief Imam at Akyem Tafo,
Mallam Madhi Ahmed told the radio
station that the punishment must be
applied to the lady and her boyfriend in
line with Islamic principles and
teachings.
“The law says that if something of this
nature happens, both of them, if they
are not married, they have to be caned
100 lashes each. But if they are
married, then, they have to be
executed.”
“So in this case, I can say the boy, he is
not married but the girl is still in the
room of her husband [late] so the law
has to take effect on her.”
“If it’s other country like Saudi Arabia,
she should be executed and the boy too
given 100 lashes. And this happened too
in that same room on the same bed [late
husband's room], so we have to apply
that law on her,” Mallam Ahmed said.
Ramatu’s in-laws are said to have
supported the punishment to be meted
out to her, according to Starr FM.
Human rights activists in the town are
said to have condemned the action of
the Muslim clerics.
Source: Graphic Online
lashes at Akyem Tafo
April 20, 2015 15:03 Mon
A twenty-three-year-old widow in
Akyem Tafo in the Eastern region is to
be given 100 lashes in public for defying
a major Islamic principle on widowhood
rites, which is known as Iddah.
Ramatu Alhassan is facing the wrath of
Muslim clerics in her community for
getting pregnant while observing Iddah.
The Iddah rites requires that a widow
abstains from sex. However, Ramatu was
found pregnant two months into the
widowhood rites.
Accra based radio station, Starr FM
reported that the clerics in the
community have been angered by the
development and intend subjecting
Ramatu and her boyfriend to public
flogging as punishment.
Deputy Chief Imam at Akyem Tafo,
Mallam Madhi Ahmed told the radio
station that the punishment must be
applied to the lady and her boyfriend in
line with Islamic principles and
teachings.
“The law says that if something of this
nature happens, both of them, if they
are not married, they have to be caned
100 lashes each. But if they are
married, then, they have to be
executed.”
“So in this case, I can say the boy, he is
not married but the girl is still in the
room of her husband [late] so the law
has to take effect on her.”
“If it’s other country like Saudi Arabia,
she should be executed and the boy too
given 100 lashes. And this happened too
in that same room on the same bed [late
husband's room], so we have to apply
that law on her,” Mallam Ahmed said.
Ramatu’s in-laws are said to have
supported the punishment to be meted
out to her, according to Starr FM.
Human rights activists in the town are
said to have condemned the action of
the Muslim clerics.
Source: Graphic Online