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Are Islamic punishments just or harsh?
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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