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Originally Posted by Skybird
I knew about stoning and cutting off a thief's hand. I did not know how barbaric and sick these already deeply perverted punishements are carried out. If you thionk it is a bout a quick swing with a sword, or two or three big rocks beeing thrown, you better think twice.
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Moses also prescribed stoning of women who commit adultery, as well as a few other things. Don't think they do much of that in this day and age, but it's on the "Books".
Cutting off the hands of thieves is a bit of a "grey area" for me. Think about Enron stealing the retirement funds from all their employees. Think about Electronic Arts, Walmart, Microsoft, and a whole bunch of others refusing to pay overtime. Start chopping off the hands of management, and you'd see a slightly more "moral" preoccupation with cost-cutting measures. Or you'd see the legislators changing the laws, causing public outrage, causing companies to change their business structure, instead.
Personally, I'd like to see child molestors and rapists get....
something....chopped off.
There are a few good things that Islam does right. I think public humiliation could help the attitude of some of America's rich-elite class, which is basically what Martha Stewart got. She was just one of the ones the Justice Department could catch, however, as only the strongest survive. "The
successful criminal mind is always superior....it has to be."