RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
January 1, 2022 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2022 at 10:00 pm by WinterHold.)
(January 1, 2022 at 2:18 am)Astreja Wrote:(January 1, 2022 at 2:14 am)WinterHold Wrote: But Astrega, the whole world -especially westerm countries- are exporting "maiming devices" called live ammunition; and deploy them to fighting jets and landmines, and crossed the level of hypocrisy to sell them for billions of Dollars to dictators who use maiming + butchery towards millions of innocent people, like the "maiming war of Yemen" that the west + Saudi Arabia are waging now.
Calling maiming with other names like "tactical airstrike" remains what it is: a maiming strike.
I'm not happy about that either, Winter. At some point we have to simply say "This is bad, and it doesn't matter who's doing it, and it doesn't matter how they're trying to justify it." If an action is wrong, it's wrong in all contexts.
We must consider the "psychological trauma" that crimes leave when brutal penalties are mentioned as a cure for them: certain crimes leave a stigma; an almost permanent mark in the brain of the victim that keeps circulating if not cured & treated.
Curing the stigma is referred to as "healing of chests" in the Quran:
Quote:Sura 9, The Quran:
https://quran.com/9:14?store=false&translations=
(14) Combat them, so that Allah may punish them at your hands and disgrace them and support you against them and heal the chests of a believing people
(15) and remove the rage in their hearts. And Allah grants repentance and accepts it from whomever He wills. And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
— Fadel Soliman, Bridges’ translation
Islam doesn't order painful penalties because it is evil. But because these crimes leave stigmas and permanent marks in one's brain and if not treated with a just retribution, the victim will get consumed by the shame and pain, and will go into a vendetta frenzy, or end their life altogether to escape the stigma.