Getting Ready For War - AgitProp

We are being treated to a steady stream of anti-Moslem propaganda, such as the story of the woman who had her nose cut off as some punishment.  Today we hear of a Saudi judge studying whether a hospital can  paralyze a man as punishment for the perpetrator who paralyzed a man in an attack, under the Judeo-Islamic rule of "an eye for an eye."

Comparative law is a fascinating field, and scholars wonder what the fuss is about this legal system.  In USA law, we have people uninterested in the case decide the sanction.  In Mosaic law, upon which Sharia is based,  the victim decides the sanction, up to an eye for an eye.  One really should study and understand a law given to His people by God himself before one condemns it.

The genius of this system is it is a great leveller.  A rich man injures a poor man, takes out an eye, the the sanction is the rich man must give up an eye.  Now, the rich man does not want to give up an eye, so he pays whatever the poor man demands for the poor mans eye.  No judge or disinterested party decides what the price is.  The victim decides.

If a poor man inflicts a loss of eye to another poor man, the perpetrator poor man will agree to work the victim's field one day a week for life, or some such sanction.  Again, no third party decides, the two involved decide.  It is a sort of free-market justice.

Should a poor man injure a rich man, the poor man can offer little in return for his eye.  Allah, the all-merciful, favors the compassionate.  A rich man who forgives an injury done by a poor man can gain great blessings from He who metes out Ultimate Justice.

The article cited above says thieves commonly have their hands cut off.  This is nonsense.  If so you would commonly see one-handed Moslems in Saudi Arabia.  What you see is people quickly settling up in Saudi Arabia, because the executioner is third generation and enjoys his work.

It would be sad if people believed the government press and were persuaded to attack Iran.

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