“Adultery should not be classified as a criminal offense” says UN expert

Thalif Deen – WNN Justice (WNN/IPS) UNITED NATIONS, New York, N.Y.: When one of the Asian countries embraced Islamic Sharia law back in the 1990s, the rigidly conservative government threatened to enforce a provision that called for convicted adulterers to be stoned to death. “If this law is enforced,” a weekly magazine cynically pronounced at [...]