Legal punishment under Sharia

[DrLeftover]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/eye-for...-after-outcry-20110516-1ep5l.html?from=smh_sb





http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/iran-blind-criminal-acid

 

[Evil Eye]

Well... I guess that works.

 

[Jazzy]

I want him to be punished foremost. But if there are human rights considerations, then I'll accept €2 million and his life imprisonment, Time magazine quoted her as saying.

Says it all.

 

[DrLeftover]

You mean she'd put monetary gain before her beliefs?



Say it isn't so.



That's almost.... .... almost... .... American.





(was that too much sarcasm?)

 

[Temerit]

Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

 

[Evil Eye]

Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Ancient Greece had an interesting system: You were allowed to kill someone if they'd killed one of your family members, this allowed others to kill you... etc.