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ansari41
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�By-products� of adultery: 1. Heterosexual transmission is the main mode of transmission of HIV accounting for nearly 65.3% of all reported AIDS cases 2. In a document published by the World Health Organization: "Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are very common. The most widely known are gonorrhoea, syphilis and AIDS (HIV infection), but there are more than 20 others. According to current WHO estimates, there are more than 333 million new cases of STDs every year throughout the world. About one million new infections occur every day.� 3. The UNAIDS 2004 Report states: "In 2003, almost five million people became newly infected with HIV, the greatest number in any one year since the beginning of the epidemic. At the global level, the number of people living with HIV continues to grow -- from 35 million in 2001 to 38 million in 2003. In the same year, almost three million were killed by AIDS; over 20 million have died since the first cases of AIDS were identified in 1981." 4. The dramatic rise in the incidence of Sexually Transmitted Disease through unsafe sex is listed as one of the top ten health problems of today. 5. Sexually Transmitted Disease is a major cause of sterility affecting up to 40 percent of the population. 6. Sexually Transmitted diseases are the most common diseases in the 7. Thirteen million children have been orphaned by AIDS. SO It is not really a case of �a great loss of trust and psychological damage.� and �The innocent partner may do well to seek counselling.� It has become a frightening global crisis. ABOVE ALL In the earlier revelations � in Torah and Bible, ALLAH has condemned adultery and fornication, and warned us to keep away from them. And in the Final Revelation � the Qur�an, HE has prescribed severe punishment � severe and at the same time exemplary and preventive. It serves as a deterrent to commit adultery or fornication. It will help any member of the society, where such penalty is implemented, to keep as far away as possible from committing the crime. Who else, other than HE, can plan it in such a way! It is understood and accepted by 1.3 billion people in the world. Then, do we have the right to question such punishment?
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Patty
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"Yes, there is hypocrisy (death in the US is "ok", but stoning to death in other countries is not), but then the death sentence is usually for things like murder or multiple murders...which in the West is seen as being a MUCH greater crime than just sleeping with someone. Kim..." I don't get your analogy here, Kim. You refer to "hypocrisy". Death in the US is NOT okay, except for the most hideous and heinous crimes. Adultery, while a grave sin (in my opinion) is not one which causes physical harm to the innocent partner of the one who has committed adultery. It may cause a great loss of trust and psychological damage. The innocent partner may do well to seek counseling; however, it is certainly not something which should result in death to the offender. Whatever happened to forgiveness when the person is truly sorry? In many, many cases the relationship CAN and IS rebuilt following the transgression. On the other hand, once an individual murders another, the murdered person's life is gone forever. The damage cannot be undone. Furthermore, many, but not all, persons who are so vicious that they would kill another human being are psychopaths or sadists, and chances are slim they will ever be anything more. I can forgive any sin, but I could not forget the murder which was committed. "Hate the sin, but love the sinner". And for the protection of the innocents in society, if the murderer has shown good cause that he/she is dangerous and quite likely to murder again, I feel for the good of the society they, in the most serious of cases, should forfeit their own life for the innocent life they took. We have a duty to protect the innocents, our kind and decent brothers and sisters, from sadistic murderers. Also, the punishment should "fit the crime". God's Peace to All, Patty
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kim!
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Yes, I agree with you - far too many "legal" deaths in the US are suffered by people who are mentally retarded, innocent and black. I remember reading one case in the early nineties where a black woman, who had been fighting off a white guy who was trying to rape her, stabbed him and he died. She was on death row for DEFENDING herself! If it had been a white woman who had killed a blakc guy I have NO doubt she would have been released. Yes, there is hypocrisy (death in the US is "ok", but stoning to death in other countries is not), but then the death sentence is usually for things like murder or multiple murders...which in the West is seen as being a MUCH greater crime than just sleeping with someone. Kim... |
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ansari41
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Still wondering! Who is to decide a certain type of punishment is �inhuman and degrading�? Amnesty International? If so, what are the criteria for such decision? What if a set of rules and punishments is accepted and practised by 1.3 billion people in the world? And what if these punishments are meted out to only those who live within the power structure of an organisation? Above all, since such punishments are prescribed in the constitution of Islam, who dares to act against it? Will Amnesty still interfere? When a man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for stealing US$153 worth of video tapes, didn�t Amnesty find it �inhuman and degrading�? Since it didn�t, what kind of justice is Amnesty looking for? In the Enron case, three people have swindled millions of people of their life savings amounting to billions of dollars, and nobody went to jail. Is it the type of justice Amnesty would agree with? In Shariah, punishments such as cutting of hands of incorrigible thieves and public caning of adulterers are imposed. These punishments are more exemplary and preventive than punitive. And these punishments are so effective that they only have to be meted out very, very rarely. And, the society in which the Shariah is practiced, people live in peace, and without fear. Does Amnesty still prefer the 50 years� jail sentence for stealing video tapes worth $153 to the Shariah law? You can�t be more right when you said that �in many cases, the charges are FALSE and/or the circumstances are deliberately arranged by others.� I am with you. We should act on such cases and we should voice our disagreement as loudly as possible. For example, incidents like the following must be condemned: "Studies show that in this century, at least 400 innocent people have been convicted of capital crimes they did not commit. Of those 400, 23 were executed." (and these statistics are for the state of Once again, as you said, �in many cases, the charges are FALSE and/or the circumstances are deliberately arranged by others�� �In 1990, a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that, "in 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks." Of the executions in the �American death penalty statistics show that the number of women executed as a percentage of those eligible for the death penalty is far less than that of men. This shows a clear bias in favour of women.� And as you said, �it is not fair.� Your mention of the Prophet ignoring an adulterer three times is enlightening. And that is what I was trying to highlight in this post. It shows that the extreme cases of punishment are administered very rarely depending on the merit of each case. And at the same time, it shows another thing: the adulterer came forward voluntarily for the punishment. Also, take note that he came forward repeatedly for the punishment. So, I still wonder how the Amnesty International (or anybody else for that matter) can find fault with the Shariah. |
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kim!
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Even Prophet Mohammed ignored a man 3 times who told him that he has committed adultery - only on the 4th time the man admitted his guilt did Mohammed decide that the man needed to be punished. Do most people punished in the Islamic ways have 4 witnesses to prove they were guilty? Or, like women and children in impoverished, uneducated parts of Pakistan, are they just tortured and/or killed by other ignorant peasants who have a grudge or an over-active imagination? Thank God for Amnesty International - they exist to try to save all the people who AREN'T guilty!
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As soon as at happens anywhere, I'm sure they will. Don't see why not - that sort of behaviour _is_ inhuman and degrading. Isn't that why the punishment exists? Besides, in many cases, the charges are FALSE and/or the circumstances are deliberately arranged by others, so those sorts of punishments you mentioned should NOT be carried out because the person to be punished is NOT actually guilty. And 99% of the time it is only the woman punished, and this is not fair, either. Punishment should only be meted out if BOTH people involved can be punished. (AND if they are ACTUALLY guilty, not just victims of other people with twisted, criminal agendas) Kim...
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�Amnesty International opposes � the ultimate cruel inhuman and degrading punishment �� Can�t help wondering if and when will Amnesty International find flogging adulterers with hundred stripes, or cutting off a thief�s hands. �cruel inhuman and degrading punishment�. |
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