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Originally Posted by eddie
but why don't they just lock him up and throw away the key?
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Because their belief system commands them otherwise.
Quran 5:33
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The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
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They believe the Quran to be the word of god delivered via their prophet, and they should live their life according to it.