Word: embarrassment
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Among the few Muslim countries that still condone stoning, Iran uses it most often. Although Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is said to have discouraged the practice because of the brutal image it gave Islam, conservative judges have inflicted the punishment recently, most likely to embarrass and undermine reformist President Mohammed Khatami. Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt...
...Somalia over the past decade, though in practice it is rarely used. In Nigeria, the introduction of shari'a is as much about politics as ideology. Worried that power was slipping to southern Christians, the northern Muslim elite has embraced shari'a. "Part of it is an attempt to embarrass Obasanjo," says Paul Marshall of the Center for Religious Freedom, based in Washington. "They are daring him to move against it and possibly lose Muslim votes...
...Malaysia's new immigration laws, which stipulate that illegal workers face imprisonment and caning. JAPAN Germ War Judges in Tokyo acknowledged for the first time that the Japanese army in the early 1940s waged germ warfare and conducted lethal bio-weapons experiments on people in China. The decision will embarrass the Japanese government, which for many years denied the existence of such experiments. Nonetheless, the Tokyo district court rejected claims for compensation from 180 Chinese plaintiffs who said relatives were killed by Unit 731 of the Japanese army based near Harbin in northern China. The court ruled that all issues...
Brace yourself, kids. Grit your teeth and clench your fists. Your relatives have traveled across oceans and continents for your graduation ceremony and, at several points during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going...
...Hoschouer admits that even if approached by the FBI prior to Hanssen's arrest, he probably would not have volunteered information about their talks about sex and crime because "I was also doing something that I knew was morally wrong and I might well have omitted mentioning what would embarrass me." That embarrassing part, according to Hoschouer, was that Hanssen had set up a video surveillance system in his bedroom and invited his friend to watch the Hanssens having sex. Hanssen's X-rated descriptions of these trysts can be found on an adult Internet site...