{"id":4065,"date":"2013-11-21T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2013-11-21T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:47:55","slug":"brunei-stricter-sharia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"BRUNEI: Stricter Sharia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Worthy News<\/a>, October 23, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan of Brunei has announced the implementation of severe corporeal punishments as his sultanate shifts towards a stricter interpretation of Sharia law, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com.hk\/news_detail.asp?art_id=138758&amp;con_type=1\" target=\"_blank\">The Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah &#8211; who first instituted Islamic law in 1966 &#8211; said a new Sharia Penal Code would soon be implemented in phases; punishments will now include stoning to death for adultery, severing of limbs for theft, and flogging for the consumption of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Brunei has a dual court system with civil courts based on British law and Sharia courts that were limited to family issues and personal disputes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/12636-brunei-to-intro-stricter-sharia\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2013\/10\/in-brunei-relatively-high-standard-of-living-now-comes-with-death-by-stoning.html\" target=\"_blank\">a related story<\/a> (PBS NewsHour), as well as more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationworld.org\/brun\" target=\"_blank\">information about Brunei<\/a> (Operation World) and <a href=\"http:\/\/win1040.com\/post.php?id=1829&amp;q=brunei\" target=\"_blank\">how to pray for Brunei<\/a> (Window International Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Worthy News, October 23, 2013 The Sultan of Brunei has announced the implementation of severe corporeal punishments as his sultanate shifts towards a stricter interpretation of Sharia law, according to The Standard. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah &#8211; who first instituted Islamic law in 1966 &#8211; said a new Sharia Penal Code would soon be implemented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BRUNEI: Stricter Sharia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}