Nice find! You do know, that's the kind of justice our pals, the Saudis, the Pakistanis, the UAE administer? Soon you'll be able to add the Iraqis to that list, although Saddam didn't allow Sharia law..
Wikepedia idiscusses Judaism in their page on stoning more than Islam - bizarre.
Then again, most Jewish people entered the modern world along with the rest of us.....
en.wikipedia.org
In Judaism
In the Old Testament of the Bible, stoning is specifically prescribed as the method of execution for crimes such as murder, blasphemy and apostasy, and in some cases adultery. However, the Talmud seriously limits the use of the death penalty to those criminals who were warned not to commit the crime in the presence of two witnesses, and persisted in committing the crime also in front of two witnesses[citation needed]. In the time these laws were used - approximately 400 years - there were only eight such executions[citation needed]. In Judaism there is no executioner who executes the criminal because by that he would himself be guilty of murder. In fact, the witnesses are required to throw the first stones. In this way stoning was used as a society punishment to the criminal and secondly there was no way of knowing which stone killed the criminal[citation needed].
Extract from Deuteronomy:
“ You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You shall stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt out of the land or slavery. „
—Deuteronomy(13:9-10)
The traditional Muslim view is that the punishment for adultery (Arabic: Zina (Arabic)) is stoning. In recent times, there is a renewed debated among Muslims regarding the interpretation of the hadith and verses regarding this issues. |
