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2004-02-20

The Grindstones of Islamic Justice Work Slowly But Exceedingly Fine

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-02-20 8:28:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The wonderful tolerance of Islam.

Posted by TS 2004-2-20 8:49:45 AM|| 2004-2-20 8:49:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a Kafka novel.........

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-20 11:47:09 AM|| 2004-2-20 11:47:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the charges are pretty bogus, but I am intrigued by the result of the appeal being an increase in the sentence time after the second appeal. The appeal process in America has always struck me as arbtration with no downside. The system, as it is, probably should be left alone, but in teh cesspool that is the Islamic Judiciary this may be a nugget of gold - or maybe its a call for an increase in dietary fiber.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-20 2:05:50 PM|| 2004-2-20 2:05:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 three years and 50 lashes. That's 16.67 lashes p.a., or do you want them all at once, sir? They appealed again, and got some more/less, now without being spanked, although threatened with a spanking. Mum's the word, not a whisper from your dead body.

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2004-2-20 4:22:14 PM|| 2004-2-20 4:22:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmm. Do you really think Kafka was this insane?

I'll have to go back and re-read some of his stuff... I always thought he was only about an arm's reach beyond Camus. ;-)

Posted by .com 2004-2-20 7:08:32 PM|| 2004-2-20 7:08:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com---Kafka's work was pretty bizarre, but not as insane as Sharia. I was thinking of The Trial, but its content was pretty tame compared to the wierd changes of sentence in the article above. The Castle was one about this nameless bureaucracy that finally obsessed a surveyor who was called to work for the Castle. The Metamorphosis was the one about the bank clerk that woke up one day and found out that he had turned into a giant insect.

Franz Kafka had turbuculosis and died relatively young. Themes like why do the innocent suffer go through his stories.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-20 8:47:14 PM|| 2004-2-20 8:47:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 AP - I was trying to be tongue in cheek -- but I think it would be rather interesting to re-read at 50+ what blew me away at 16-20... I agree Shari'a Law is Around the Bend - to quote the title of one of my all-time favorites from someone a tad better rooted in reality than Franz, Albert, or Little Mo! ;-)

Posted by .com 2004-2-20 10:30:10 PM|| 2004-2-20 10:30:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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