RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
January 1, 2022 at 1:25 am
(December 31, 2021 at 7:26 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(December 30, 2021 at 3:59 pm)Astreja Wrote: WinterHold, please confront the endemic problem of legalistic maiming of criminals in Islamic societies in the present day.
The Quran -which I'm taking as my personal law- doesn't orders maiming but in two cases:
1-Robbery, by cutting the hand of the thieve -unless pardoned by the victim-.
2-Cutting both the hand & the leg in the case of the criminal is spreading corruption in the land as the verse say:
Both are absolutely unacceptable responses. Maiming is never okay. Ever. It doesn't fucking matter what scripture authorizes it - in all cases, it is a violation of the criminal's human rights.
