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To: TimF who wrote (16311)	4/7/2006 12:11:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) of 541936

Well, you can call them anything you like but if they're carrying out a fatwa -- a death sentence issued by a Mullah pursuant to Sharia law -- then objectively speaking you aren't correct. The intention isn't to terrify, any more than Texas intends to terrify when they execute criminals with lethal injections. >>Q. Is there any evidence in the Quran or Sunnah which supports the chopping of heads on Friday? A. We were instructed to carry out the cutting of hands or heads, stoning people to death, lashing, etc. in public and the greatest gathering of Muslims, excluding the two Eids and Hajj, is on Fridays. It was the practice of the Prophet (pbuh) to gather as many people from the community to witness the implementation of the Islamic law. Executing the individual was not just punishment for that individual, but it was also awareness to the people what will happen if they committed the same crime. One of the distinguishing factors between Islamic criminal law and Western criminal justice is public executions. In the past, the west used to execute people and then they stopped. Afterwards they made an analysis that concluded that the crime level didn't decrease due to executions, so there was no reason to bring it back. However in the Muslim society, public executions does keep crime levels down and this is a fact. It can be estimated that the population of Saudi Arabia is similar to the population of New York City, but the number of murders which are committed in Saudi Arabia in a year are less than the number of murders which are committed in New York City in a week. One of the key factors for this is public executions. militantislammonitor.org

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