Did Brunei Sultan’s Iniquitous Past Stir Shariah?

The stunning announcement that Brunei will make gay sex and adultery punishable by death by stoning starting on April 3 appears to stem from a sense of panic on the part of the country’s 73-year-old sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, that his own astonishingly profligate past may catch up with him, according to sources with lines into the tiny, oil-rich Southeas…