A prominent Saudi cleric is the focus of controversy as a result of his lenient treatment by a Saudi court after he killed his five-year-old daughter because he suspected she was not a virgin.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/04/outrage-over-saudi-blood-money-in-5-year-old-girl-beating-death/?test=latestnews
Under sharia, the family of a murder victim has the power to grant forgiveness to the killer. Thinking logically, would that not open the gates to payment of blood money and/or threats?
Last year, I had a conversation with a young Saudi who was studying to be a Saudi lawyer. He explained how the death sentence works in his country and how the victim's family can grant mercy to a killer. This is in accordance with sharia. He was frankly surprised when I explained that under American law, a family does not possess that power because murder is considered as also a crime against the state.
He also explained how Saudi Arabia handles apostasy. The accused is given some time and three chances to recant and return to the fold. If he or she does not take advantage of these opportunities, he or she is then executed. That is in accordance with sharia law as well.
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Sharia seems to mean different things to different Muslims. Whether this is Sharia or not, calling it "barbaric" is an insult to barbarians.
I don't want to paint all Saudis with the same brush, but I will state that their system of laws is nothing short of pure evil.
We all know how things are handled in Saudi Arabia. What other country in the world is named after its ruling house, rather like the country is the ruler's property? Remember "Death of a Princess"?
So this cleric (no less!) suspects his five year old (!) daughter (!) of fooling around and murders (!) her. Then he gets off (!) because he pays off her other relatives.
Then a Saudi law student, presumably from UCI, tries to explain away this infanticide in some kind of relative moralistic fashion... we have our laws and customs and they have theirs!
This is not a clash of civilizations it is an assault on civilization!
Unless and until the Muslims themselves have some kind of reformation within their own religion, there will be no peace in the world for anyone. They are still, at the center, a 7th century tribal society.
They are still, at the center, a 7th century tribal society.
Some of them. So are Jewish settlers on the West Bank... no, wait, that would be a 7th century BC tribal society.
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