Brickbat: Painfully Ironic

An Indonesian man named Mukhlis was recently caned in public in Aceh province, receiving 28 strikes after being caught having sex with a married woman. Mukhlis (many Indonesians use just one name) is a member of the Aceh Ulema Council, which lobbied the provincial government to enact Islamic sharia law and advises it in implementing that law. That law mandates public caning for adultery.
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Adultery? What about childery?
Religion of peace strikes again, and again, and again.
Thank you Mohamed, may I have another?
The married woman he was caught having sex with was of course beheaded.
*Insert 'goat jokes' here*
Under sharia law it'd be stoned to death, I think?
He thought Indonesia needed an object lesson.
Is it OK to have Islamic sex with with a married woman, if you are married to her? Are thinking of getting married to her? Would like to get married to her?
Also, is it OK to have balsamic sex with with a married woman? And what ***IS*** balsamic sex, anyway? And why did I cut my hair?!?! It makes me look like a squirrel!
Is that supposed to be read in a Seinfeld voice?
Balsamic sex is tastier.
Yes it is!
Reminds me of this old joke:
A woman tells her doctor she’s having an issue with her Italian husband. He insists on going down on her every single time they have sex. The doctor suggests she rub some fresh garlic on herself down there to put him off.
At her next appointment, the doctor asks if the garlic trick worked. “Not at all,” the woman says. “Now he brings a bottle of olive oil, a bottle of balsamic vinegar and some mixed herbs with him when he comes to bed!”
This doctor should also warn this lady about what the dangerous things that they're doing, here, as her husband gets older! Else, some day she may be forced to face the dreaded surgical procedure, technically known as a "vaginopseudodentectomy" (the removal of false teeth from a vagina)! Government Almighty knows what THAT operation would cost! (I wonder if it is "on the books" yet, and taught in med school).
Oh shut up. You're not funny.
Oh, as if your response is a knee-slapper! If you don't like my stuff, you have my permission to not read it. And-or shove it up your ass!
Too bad it wasn't an eye for an eye.
That married woman would have had to sex with the whipped dude.
How is this a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result? He got exactly what he would expect for adultery.
Prohibitionists never expect the law to apply to _them_.
Is this the Sharia version of sado-masochism?
I see no problem with this. Call it contract enforcement.
Better contract enforcement.
A third wife.
"I sentence you to six months hard marriage."