I wonder if they use this method for rapists?
Hold muh curry and watch this!
I wonder how many thieves stuck their hands in the oil to appear innocent, and how many innocent men didn't because it is essentially a punishment for a crime they didn't commit.
Maybe it's India's Fryers Club!
Reinforcing the wisdom of my un-formally educated, long dead, very insightful mother. "Ain't none of them foreigners got sense enough to wipe themselves."
If this is how their local culture determines guilt and innocence, what right do a bunch of imperialist busybodies from New Delhi have to say otherwise?
Obviously the village elders are being oppressed and should be given immediate political asylum by the United States and resettled in Vermont.
Valuing the Warmth of Multiculturalism alert!
Please remember to apply tolerance to all cultural beliefs as you read this. Just because some societies have practices which we may consider quaint or diffucult to appreciate, it does not mean they are 'backward' or without value. All cultures are equal and worthy of respect.
The only 'backward' beliefs are those of the unenlightened flag-wavers who don't understand that America is primarily to blame for all the world's problems.
Maybe we should have an islamik punishment pi(n)g list. With all the websites redefining shariah, we need a compilation of the logic they employ in fighting crime.
Great insight of the mentality in the land of Dell support.
Did the elders put their hands in?
Let's hope there's not much crime in that town.
There wouldn't be many hands left to scald.
Come Halloween they can bob for french fries. You know, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade...
Don't worry after 600 years of progress, it will be organic oil for the boiling. (this will make the hippies happy)
"The History of Jurisprudence, the Oily Years"