A young girl in Syria has just been stoned to death – apparently for opening a Facebook account.
According to reports, Fatoum Al-Jaseem, 14 or 15, was sentenced to death by a Sharia court after she was caught operating a Facebook account in Rakka, Syria. The court ruled that having an active account on the social-media platform is a moral crime as sinful as adultery. Something that's also punishable by stoning.
The court was operating under the jurisdiction of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS – an al-Qaeda affiliated group, who made headlines recently when one of its suicide bombing instructors accidentally killed his class of 22 students after unknowingly detonating a belt of live explosives.
The group has also ordered women in Rakka to ‘cover up their beauty’ banned them from leaving home without a male relative. Anyone who voices their opposition is imprisoned without trial.
It's interesting to note too that Sharia law doesn’t condemn men for using the social-networking site unless they’re speaking ill of Islam. In fact, a lot of militant Islamic groups operate Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts in order to recruit members, posting details of attacks as well as videos of training members. But one rule for them; one rule for Syria's young girls, right? Depressing stuff.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.