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Brunei Returns to the Stoning Age

SAY WHAT?

The tiny sultanate is planning a return to medieval modes of shariah law, with vicious punishments for extramarital sex and anti-Muslim defamation. And nobody’s blinking an eye.

Jay Michaelson
Jay Michaelson
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Jay Michaelson

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