{{A militant official and a Somali resident say al-Shabab fighters have stoned to death a man for carrying out a homosexual sex act.}}<\/p>\n
The resident, Yusuf Abdi, said the group buried a blindfolded man to his waist last Friday and threw stones at him until he died.<\/p>\n
An al-Shabab official said one of its judges sentenced the man to death because he forced a 13-year-old boy to have sex with him. The al-Shabab member insisted he not be named.<\/p>\n
Al-Shabab implements a conservative and austere brand of Islam in areas it controls.<\/p>\n
Sheikh Ibrahim Ali, a Somali religious leader in Mogadishu, said homosexuality is controversial inside Islam. <\/p>\n
One strict reading of Islamic law, he said, is that a married man who engages in a homosexual act should be killed.<\/p>\n
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