Who Believes In Punishments Meeted Out Under Sharia Law ?

[beezaneez]

hands chopped off for thieves etc etc . what are your views . i do not believe in sharia , i think it is barbaric but.....arent i a hypocrite ? because for child murderers and rapists of children and pensioners and weak defensless people , i could kill them all in the most brutal way.

hmmm...this makes for a good start to a sunday morning LOL

[keyplus90]

////Keyplus you say 'under Sharia it is not allowed to buy your way out' then go on the explain how it IS possible.////
Above is your question and here is the answer you have given yourself,
////In the case of the Saudi Prince the relatives were forced to say they would accept 'blood money'///
Eddie, blood money or Diyat as mentioned by emmie cannot be “FORCED” in Sharia. And when I say Sharia then I do not mean any law in any country today as there is not even a single country in the world at this time that has complete Sharia law. Few countries do have segments of it here and there and the result of that can be seen. You, yourself have lived in Saudi Arab so just answer my very simple 2 questions,
1 – How many people have you seen with a hand missing in quite a few years in Saudi Arabia you have spent?
2 – How many security guards, time delayed locks and other things like those have you seen there at businesses say like Jewellery shops even when shop keeper has gone for prayer or lunch? Because what I have seen in my short trip is that shops are wide open and just a stick is placed across the door as a sign that shop keeper has gone out and no one dares go in and steal.
Finally rest assured that it is their law and in their country so people in other countries should have no worries or interest in how people like to live in the other parts of the world.

[emmie]

but you said it doesn't happen, or perhaps in Saudi, i was merely pointing out it obviously does in many parts of the world.

[emmie]

wiki
The use of capital punishment in Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia (or Islamic law) and is prominent internationally because of the wide range of crimes which can result in the death penalty and because it is usually carried out by public beheading. In 2011, the Saudi government reported 26 executions in the country.[1] Foreigners are not exempt.

Unlike executions in most other countries that have not abolished the death penalty, Saudi Arabia performs public executions in central Riyadh, instead of privately executing criminals in prisons. It is one of the last four countries to still carry out public executions, the other three being Iran, Syria and Yemen.

[LazyGun]

"2 – How many security guards, time delayed locks and other things like those have you seen there at businesses say like Jewellery shops even when shop keeper has gone for prayer or lunch? Because what I have seen in my short trip is that shops are wide open and just a stick is placed across the door as a sign that shop keeper has gone out and no one dares go in and steal."

***. I simply do not believe you that a jewellry store would be so lax with their security - unless the jewellry is just costume junk. I think this is just you making stuff up.

Sharia law allows for the option for the family to opt for blood money as expiation for the crime, rather than punishment through either jail time or public execution. So it legitimises the notion that the rich can buy themselves out of trouble. And according to media reports, judges can direct that blood money be paid, rather than additional time served in jail.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-preacher-who-raped-and-tortured-his-five-yearold-daughter-to-death-is-released-after-paying-blood-money-8480440.html

Chopping bits off people, public beheadings - these seem like barbarism to me. Equally repellant is the notion that a criminal can make reparation by buying off the family, or that families are sufficiently greedy that they will overlook punishment in the interests of getting their hands on the money - and this satisfies sharia and hence islamic law.

[EDDIE51]

Lazy Gun , in this ^^ Keyplus is correct. In Saudi there are shops little more than market stalls that sell Gold , £10,000s worth just on shelves like fruit on a market stall here. The penalty for sealing Gold, even a tiny amount, is a compulsory death penalty. While I was there 4 Phillipino's were beheaded for stealing Gold.
I have bought Gold in such shops.

[emmie]

so they value gold above people, that says it all

[LazyGun]

"Lazy Gun , in this ^^ Keyplus is correct. In Saudi there are shops little more than market stalls that sell Gold , £10,000s worth just on shelves like fruit on a market stall here. The penalty for sealing Gold, even a tiny amount, is a compulsory death penalty. While I was there 4 Phillipino's were beheaded for stealing Gold.
I have bought Gold in such shops"

Left unattended? except for a stick across the door?

[EDDIE51]

Not left unattended but just one old man in a shop with £100,000s worth of Gold, all on open display it would have been very easy to grab a hand full and run for it.
Dubai used to be the same before the tourist revolution, now it is all modern western style high security shops. But the back streets of Saudi are still like it.

[LazyGun]

@Eddie Ok, I stand partially corrected. Still not quite Keypluses scenario of unattended but guarded by a stick though ;)

[keyplus90]

Shops are not guarded by the stick. Stick across means that shop keeper is not there. Its kind of a sign.