It seems to me that
much is misunderstood about the punishment as dictated by the Koran it is
widely believed that if a man steals his hand will be severed and this is so.
But I believe the thief is given three chances and the man must admit his
crime; if he has stolen food because he is hungry then it is the communities
fault for not supporting him. I once saw a criminal on the plane I was
travelling on, chained to his guard, I heard he was to be executed for what
crime I don’t know but all he did was to recite the Koran. He showed no fear
whatsoever and looked quite calm.
We used to live in
town where our villa was surrounded by the usual purdah but in this case the
top three feet had fancy block work. My wife saw a couple of eyes looking
through the block work at her on several occasions. I took this up with Abu
Garda (see blog 5) and he said “Tell your wife to get a stick and next time she
sees him let her poke his eyes out. Nothing will happen to her” Naturally she
didn’t but it did show their approach to this sort of thing, however I’m not
too sure how they would react to an expatriate wife blinding somebody.
I was told of a
case where a man working on the roof of a building fell off onto a man below
killing him. The dead man’s wife could choose between financial compensation or
demand the death of the man who had unfortunately killed her husband. The case
came before the Saudi judge and as was her right the woman chose that the death
of her husband’s killer despite the judges advice she insisted. The judge ruled
he could not deny the woman her right but he could decide the manner in which
it should be accomplished. “You will throw yourself off the same building on to
your husband killer so that he might die in the same manner as your late
husband” the woman settled for compensation. I have a great respect for Islamic
justice; it was nice to live in a country where there was virtually no crime.
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