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These Islamists do it in the name of Mohammed or Allah.

Nobody has posted a single bit of proof that the court did this in the name of Allah or sharia. Or that these deep backwoods people are "Islamists" in the sense that the term is widely used today. These tribal juries are much more like lynch mobs than a court in the sense we use the term.

Anybody remember some of the things done by lynch mobs in this country only 75 years ago? Pretty much every single member of those mobs thought of himself as a good Christian. And quite a few of them justified their actions with a perversion of Christian doctrine.

"only 75 years ago" Lucky you, to be an American. Here in Australia, the most frightful crimes go on, and go unpunished, especially in rural areas. It is not a question of 75 years ago.

In the town of Horsham, (Victoria, Aust) a woman was beaten to death by her husband and a group of his friends. This was in the early 1990s (1992?), her name was Joan Vollmer (nee Taylor). They were a fundamentalist "Christian" group, and she wanted to leave her husband. They decided to perform an exorcism ceremony, and imprisoned her in her house while they did it. I won't give you the details (shudder.) One of their obsessions was that "the demons were in her womb" - so they violently tried to get them out. Finally they strangled her. She died after continuous assaults which had gone on for several days. Their "pastor" visited the house several times, and their whole religious community (a nasty little sect) knew what was going on, but no one stopped them.

Under Australian law, all these people had committed offenses which would make them liable for sentences of 20 years and more. But only her husband was charged, on a lesser grade of involuntary killing, and HE WALKED. The Magistrate set him free!!!!!! The Magistrate agreed with the husband's story, which was that he was only performing an exorcism, and did not intend to kill her. (Two bones in her throat were entirely crushed.) Feminist groups in Australia made an outcry over this, especially after the same religious group made further acts of violence in the town. He was taken away to Melbourne, (a capital city), charged again and convicted this time. He got a light sentence (always a light sentence for wife killing) and he is probably free by now.

This murder was an occasion for Christian-bashing in Australia, but no one looked at our long-standing tolerance for domestic violence, which was the true foundation of the case. The Catholic Church (which had NOTHING to do with the sect in question) was held up to ridicule and journalists kept asking their spokespeople about "don't you do exorcisms etc."

I could go on and on with other examples. But I think I have given you a bad enough impression of Aust. as it is.