Posted on 08/19/2010 10:10:38 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
CAIRO (AP) -- A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, local newspapers reported on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia enforces strict Islamic law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient legal code of an eye-for-an-eye.
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The Lex Talionis has its attractions.
The Religion of Peace at work again!
If we could disable ones right arm(or left) just think of the crimes prevented. Put a big scary tattoo on their face and let them walk around rather than vegetate in in jail. It’s unusual but not cruel.
You bigoted, hateful right wingers. How dare you question a religion built on peace. /s
Except then you would make him a useless dependent who cannot support themselves. Either kill him or lock him up and make him work. Don’t paralyze someone for a crime. This is a really stupid punishment in any legal code, for practical if not for moral reasons...
“Except then you would make him a useless dependent who cannot support themselves.”
Make him a democrat?
“If we could disable ones right arm(or left) just think of the crimes prevented. Put a big scary tattoo on their face and let them walk around rather than vegetate in in jail. It’s unusual but not cruel.”
Why don’t you just become Muslim and move to Saudi Arabia, where your sentiments would obviously find a lot of agreement.
Why couldn’t it apply to adultery? A cheat for a cheat, so to speak?
Of course the dissolution of the marriage might be precipitous after that, but it does SEEM fair at least, heheh.
The judge is just another moderate Muslim like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
I bet their recidivism statistics are way down.
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