Women's marriage baffles Islamic police in Indonesia's Aceh

[rug]

(Reuters) - Islamic religious police in Indonesia's Aceh province are stumped about how to handle a case of two women who married at the urging of neighbors concerned that one of the roomates was a man and therefore a couple living in sin.

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The women, Nuraini and Rohani, came under pressure as neighbors assumed Rohani was a man because of her appearance and male nickname, Ranto. But after the marriage, suspicions grew that Rohani was actually a woman and local residents turned them in to the police on Sunday.

"In the Prophet's book, people committing such a thing should be beheaded or thrown into the sea, but we don't have that in our regulations," Muddasir, the head of Aceh's religious police, told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Muddasir said his office had leafed through books of bylaws but failed to find any article regulating same-sex marriages.


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[Warpy]

1. Since they can't find any sort of barbaric law covering it

and since the neighbors were easily more guilty than the participants, "leave them alone" comes to mind as the highest possible solution.

It wasn't a problem until nosy bullies tried to force the issue. Throw them into the sea.

[TygrBright]

2. Nonsense! Throw them into the sea!

Just pick a nice warm beach on a sunny day and make sure there are plenty of towels and a fresh cover-up handy for when they come out.

The Law of the Prophet is the Law of God and all that. Wouldn't wanna offend Mr. Nasty in the Sky.

dismissively,
Bright