Muslim Girl, 19, Stoned To Death After Taking Part In Beauty Contest

Tunc dixit David: "Illicitum est, ut a quocumque portetur arca Dei, nisi a Levitis, quos elegit Dominus ad portandum eam et ad ministrandum sibi usque in aeternum". (1 Chronicles 15:2)

The Daily Mail reports a teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under "Sharia law" after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine.

Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home.

Friends said she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had come seventh in a beauty contest.

Her battered body was buried in a forest and was found a week after she disappeared.

Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming her death was justified under Islam.

One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest and told police that Katya had "violated the laws of Sharia".

Gaziev has said he has no regrets about her death.

It is sad when murder is committed in the name of law and religion.

By concealing the poor girls body, the offenders also knew they were wrong.

Honor killings and stonings are problems.

But they can be solved with education.

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage", see Galatians 5:1.

"Praedica verbum, insta opportune, importune, argue, increpa, obsecra in omni longanimitate et doctrina", 2 Timothy 4:2.