Brunei is declared fundamentalist by its all-powerful sultan Henceforward thieves will be de-handed, drunkards lashed, and adulterers stoned to death By Link Byfield Oct 28, 2013
Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei, flanked by both his wives. Far, far away, in a small kingdom in an oil-rich region of the South China Sea, lived the aging, unhappy, fabulously wealthy Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. His people were misbehaving, and something had to be done.
One day – Oct. 22, 2013 – the great sultan announced that, for its own good, the kingdom would soon return to the pure laws of Islam: adulterers would be stoned to death, thieves’ hands amputated, and anyone caught drinking alcohol lashed.
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, built in 1958 with a gold roof.Brunei is an independent coastal nation of 400,000 people, two-thirds of whom are Sunni Muslims. Seafarers and traders since ancient times, they were Islamized in about the 1400s, fought over by European colonial powers for several centuries, and were granted independence by Britain in 1984. Though nominally a parliamentary democracy, Brunei is in fact an Islamic absolute monarchy like Saudi Arabia. So whether or not the people want a strict application of Sunni Shafi law – the harshest in all Islam – that is what they will get. -
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Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei, flanked by both his wives. Far, far away, in a small kingdom in an oil-rich region of the South China Sea, lived the aging, unhappy, fabulously wealthy Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. His people were misbehaving, and something had to be done. One day – Oct. 22, 2013 – the great sultan announced that, for its own good, the kingdom would soon return to the pure laws of Islam: adulterers would be stoned to death, thieves’ hands amputated, and anyone caught drinking alcohol lashed. Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, built in 1958 with a gold roof.Brunei is an independent coastal nation of 400,000 people, two-thirds of whom are Sunni Muslims. Seafarers and traders since ancient times, they were Islamized in about the 1400s, fought over by European colonial powers for several centuries, and were granted independence by Britain in 1984. Though nominally a parliamentary democracy, Brunei is in fact an Islamic absolute monarchy like Saudi Arabia. So whether or not the people want a strict application of Sunni Shafi law – the harshest in all Islam – that is what they will get. -
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