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If the Islamic rules were adhered to then the Islamic punishments is just. I repeat, if the Islamic rules were strictly fallowed, then and only then it would be just, and fair and it
would lead to happy and prospers society in which ordinary citizens are all living in safe and peaceful existents.
In my understanding that is what Islam prompts, the safety of the community as opposed to the safety and happiness of few criminals.
As Muslim people who grow up in a country where Islamic law were fallowed, we never entertained owning a gun in our country. There was no need for one. The outside doors were left unlock at night time and people left their cars doors unlooked. As children we roamed the streets at day time and our parents did not worry about rapist in our neighborhood. The police force biggest worries were kids who forget their way home and drivers who passed red lights.
Now I live in the United States of America, and I wonder who we saved by protecting the lives of serial killers, people who molest children and other monsters. Certainly not the victims. And definitely not the lives of ordinary citizens.
This victims and their families are going to feel victimizes again as a result of our too
Lenient laws. These laws allow the criminals to get out of jail after few months or years
from jail and walk the very same streets that you and I and countless other people would
Walk. We will tell our selfless that those past offenders are better people now that they
repaid their dept to the society. But is that true?
Do people who steal, kill and molest children get rehabilitee in jail or do they became?
More ingrained in what they do.
And does fear work?
The answer in my comparison to the western world were laws are to protect all human rights and Eastern world were Islamic Rules are enforced is that no people do not change just by getting locked up for few years. And yes fear does work. Just look in to
Any Islamic society and look for the number of murders that took place over there in a whole year and it would come in to less that one hands fingers.
Over there a killer would be killed, a person who uses weapon to rope others would be
Killed and some one who steals from other would get his hands cut.
The law stress that their have to be witness, or that the person would confess to their crimes, that they are mental capable of making decisions. And that they are not poor
Or destitute and were driven to steal by hunger. When there rules are abid by then
And only then would banishment be just.
When we protect the criminal in the same fashion that we protect the our good citizens then we are encouraging criminals.
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Islamic punishments are harsh. The Quran states non-believers should be killed if they will not convert, and Allah kills many unbelievers himself in numerous passages of the Quran. Harsh punishment is not limited to non-believers though. The Quran calls for harsh punishment for various crimes.
Quran 4: 34 "... So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from who ye fear rebellion admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. ..." Aside from being yet another example of unjust, unfair, and unreasonable sexism in the Quran, this passage contains a frightfully harsh bit of punishment. It states in plain that if women are disobedient, not only should you refuse to have sleep with them, but you should beat them. Physical violence is a clearly barbaric solution to marital problems.
Quran 5:38 "As for the thief, both male both male and female, cut off their hands." Cutting off a person's hand is a harsh punishment for thievery. Hands are a very important part of the human body, and removing them could result in death. Surely anyone can see this is an overly harsh punishment!
Quran 24:2 "The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes..." Adultery can deeply hurt the spouse of the adulterer/adulteress , but a hundred lashes with a whip? This punishment is barbaric and cruel, but Muslims believe this is Allah's divine punishment for adultery.
In 40:22, those who ignore the "clear proof" of Islam are seized and punished severely. 42:30 teaches that if bad things happen to you, it's your own fault. Let me tell you, some very nice people have lived some very miserable lives. 42:30 is both absurd and unjust, and suggest that Allah's punishments can be horribly harsh and cruel. The examples of inhumane punishments in Quran could go on and on. The punishments provided for different crimes in the Quran are almost always overly harsh, representative of the barbaric and brutal times the Quran was written in.
The governments of the Middle East continue to abide by the Quran's call for harsh and cruel punishments. Even recently, women who killed men who were trying to rape them were executed. Women who were raped were executed for adultery. Men and woman are executed for converting away from Islam. The punishments are so horribly unjust that they would laughable if it was not for the fact that this was happening to real people. Not all Muslims are violent, but their religion certainly is, and Muslim governments follow in suit. Is Islam a religion of peace? No, it invented Jihad and prescribes extremely harsh punishments. Upon looking at the Quran itself, it is no longer possible to deny the absolute terror of Islamic punishments.
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