IN JAMAICA: Whip child killers and rapists, Islamic Council says...."You might want to say that what Islam prescribes is barbaric, but when a man rapes a woman or girl, that is an extremely heinous crime in Islam," said Al Hajj Mekaeel Maknoon

Sunday, April 26, 2015    

AS the heinous murders and attacks against the nation's children continue to escalate, the Islamic Council of Jamaica believes that it is time for the Government to introduce stricter measures in order to clamp down on the brutal crimes.

(L) MAKNOON ... Islam prescribes that such
 persons are beaten. (R) Young Jamelia
Johnson, who was found murdered last week.

One of the suggestions made by the Council is for there to be public beating and humiliation of some of the island's criminals who continue to rape and attack citizens, especially the nation's youth.

"You might want to say that what Islam prescribes is barbaric, but when a man rapes a woman or girl, that is an extremely heinous crime in Islam," said Al Hajj Mekaeel Maknoon, acting president of the Islamic Council of Jamaica, in an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Observer.

"What Islam normally prescribes in those circumstances is that the persons are beaten," he stated.

He said that the Holy Qur'an prescribes 100 lashes in public.

The calls from the Council's heirarchy comes a day after the island was left mourning the death of another of its children, this time a 12-year-old girl in Riversdale, St Catherine.

The child, Jameila Johnson, also known as 'Zella', a student of the Harewood Primary School in St Catherine, was brutally murdered and her body dumped in bushes close to a river near her home in Williamsfield, near Riversdale in the parish, on Friday.

There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that the child was pregnant. more