Flogging, Stoning and amputation are not practices of the West but they are practiced in Islamic nations.  I came across an article  written by Stephen Chapman titled “The Prisoner’s Diemma” (first appeared in the New Republic on March 8, 1980)which gets me thinking about the differences between Eastern Islamic and Western Society.  Do Eastern Islamic Nations look at the west as a society out of control?  Check out what Ayatollah Khomeni said:

•   If the punitive laws of Islam were applied for only one year, all the devastating injustices would be uprooted.  Misdeeds must be punished by the law of retaliation; cut off the hands of the thief; kill the murderers; flog the adulterous woman or man.  Your concerns, your “humanitarian”scruples are more childish then reasonable.  Under the terms of Koranic law, any judge fulfilling the seven requirements (that he have reached puberty, be a believer, know the Koranic laws perfectly, be just, and not be affected by amnesia, or be a bastard, or be the female sex is qualified to be a judge in any type of case.  He can thus judge and dispose of twenty trials in a single day, where’s the Occidental justice may [Read more →]