RE: Oh, ffs.
October 25, 2016 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2016 at 8:53 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(October 25, 2016 at 8:15 pm)abaris Wrote:(October 25, 2016 at 8:11 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: It isn't now. It might become a one in the future.
When? When do you realistically think this might become a majority without depopulating the Middle East and Africa?
Apart from Sharia not being what you might want to believe. Sharia at it's core is about settling border and property disputes by a mediator. Only a tiny part is punitive. But for obvious reasons our rightwingers only concentrate on the punitive part.
From wikipedia. You have the relevant sources included.
Quote:Sharia law is the law of Islam. [...]
The Sharia law itself cannot be altered, but the interpretation of the Sharia law, called "fiqh," by imams is given some leeway.
As a legal system, the Sharia law covers a very wide range of topics. While other legal codes deal primarily with public behavior, Sharia law covers public behavior, private behavior and private beliefs.
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- According to the Sharia law and after due process and investigation:
- Habitual theft past a specific threshold, and after repeated warnings, is punishable by amputation of a hand.
- The punishment for adultery and fornication such that it becomes a public ordeal, according to the Holy Qur'an, is lashing. Before the revelation of these verses, Muhammad followed the Judaic law in implementing the punishment of death by stoning. This was only given if the person admitted to it repeatedly, was not intoxicated and knew the repercussions. Even then, if during the punishment he repented, he was to be released.
Quote:Laws and practices under Sharia
Marriage
- A Muslim woman can only marry a Muslim man and a Muslim man can only marry a Muslim or Ahl al-Kitāb . He/She cannot marry an atheist, agnostic or polytheist.[2]
Quote:Crime and punishment
Sharia recognizes three categories of crime:[3]
Hudud crimes are five:[4] theft, highway robbery, zina (illicit sex), sexual slander (accusing someone of zina but failing to produce four witnesses), and drinking alcohol
- Hudud: crimes against God with fixed punishment.
- Qisas: crimes against Muslims where equal retaliation is allowed.
- Tazir: crimes against Muslims or non-Muslims where a Muslim judge uses his discretion in sentencing.
Sharia requires that there be four adult male Muslim witnesses to a hudud crime or a confession repeated four times, before someone can be punished for a Hudud crime.[4]
Murder, bodily injury and property damage - intentional or unintentional - is considered a civil dispute under sharia law.[5] The victim, victim's heir(s) or guardian is given the option to either forgive the murderer, demand Qisas (equal retaliation) or accept a compensation (Diyya) in lieu of the murder, bodily injury or property damage. Under sharia law, the Diyya compensation received by the victim or victim's family is in cash.[6][7]
Quote:The penalty for theft
Theft (stealing) is a hudud crime in sharia, with a fixed punishment. The punishment is cutting off the hand or feet of the thief.
Quote:The penalty for zinaEdit
Sharia law states that if either an unmarried man or an unmarried woman has pre-marital sex, the punishment should be 100 lashes.[8][9] There are some requirements that need to be met before this punishment can happen. For example, the punishment cannot happen unless the person confesses, or unless four eyewitnesses each saw, at the same time, the man and the woman in the action of illicit sex. Those who accuse someone of illicit sex but fail to produce four eyewitnesses are guilty of false accusation and their punishment is 80 lashes.[10] Maliki school of sharia considers pregnancy in an unmarried woman as sufficient evidence that she committed the hudud crime of zina.[11][12] The Hadiths consider homosexuality as zina.[13]
Quote:The penalty for apostasy
The punishment for apostasy is thought to be death by several schools of Muslim thought.
An example apostate was Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death for apostasy in Iran (in 2002) after giving a controversial speech on reforming Islam. His sentence was reduced to 5 years in prison, but only after international and domestic outcry.