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Indonesian Christians Whipped Over Sharia-banned Child's Play

Two Indonesian Christians were publicly flogged in conservative Aceh province Tuesday for playing a children's entertainment game seen as violating Islamic law, as hundreds of onlookers ridiculed them and took pictures. The pair were among five people -- including a couple whipped two dozen times each for showing affection in public -- who were lashed with a rattan stick. Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes sharia law and...


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