Re: Couple stoned to death in Fata
a) is stoning an islamic punishement? please provide proof.
b) are these tribal jirga people even qualified in islamic terms to even sit on such tribunals? the accuracy of investigations comes after that.
from my limited knowledge there is nothing in Quran that mentions stoning as a punishment, it mentions flogging, there is however a different book that talks about stoning as a punishment for adultery.
You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You shall stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt out of the land of slavery.—Deuteronomy(13:9-10)Quran has this to say on the topic.
24:2 The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.