Post by chillyd on Nov 1, 2011 14:44:28 GMT -8
for those worried about it: Islam: Governing Under Sharia
As you can see, Sharia law is more then just whips & stones. It covers a whole area of law we consider civil laws like marriage & divorce, tort and even banking regulations that Citigroup, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank are paying attention to.
The shari'a categorizes its offenses by the types of punishments they engender:
• offenses to which are affixed a specified punishment (hadd -- includes apostasy, theft, highway robbery, illegal sexual intercourse (zina'), false accusation of zina' & drinking alcohol). These are crimes that are "against God and a threat to the moral fabric of the Muslim community."
• those for which the punishment is at the judge's discretion (ta'zir -- other offenses for which no punishment is specified in the Qur'an or Hadith, akin to our misdemeanor crimes.)
• offenses in which a form of retaliatory action is inflicted against the perpetrator or his kinsmen by the victim's kinsmen (jinayat -- 'eye for an eye' retribution);
• offenses in which a reimbursement action is imposed against the perpetrator (diya -- blood money);
• offenses that are corrected by acts of personal penance (kaffara -- usually an added 'kicker' like community service).
When not applied in the extreme, it has been a legal jurisprudence that works well in Muslim countries like Mali, Kazakhstan and Turkey where it is limited to personal and family matters, with the consent of both parties. Basically, fulfilling an arbitration role.
In the extreme, you get Iran, Saudi Arabia & parts of Pakistan\Afghanistan.
As you can see, Sharia law is more then just whips & stones. It covers a whole area of law we consider civil laws like marriage & divorce, tort and even banking regulations that Citigroup, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank are paying attention to.
The shari'a categorizes its offenses by the types of punishments they engender:
• offenses to which are affixed a specified punishment (hadd -- includes apostasy, theft, highway robbery, illegal sexual intercourse (zina'), false accusation of zina' & drinking alcohol). These are crimes that are "against God and a threat to the moral fabric of the Muslim community."
• those for which the punishment is at the judge's discretion (ta'zir -- other offenses for which no punishment is specified in the Qur'an or Hadith, akin to our misdemeanor crimes.)
• offenses in which a form of retaliatory action is inflicted against the perpetrator or his kinsmen by the victim's kinsmen (jinayat -- 'eye for an eye' retribution);
• offenses in which a reimbursement action is imposed against the perpetrator (diya -- blood money);
• offenses that are corrected by acts of personal penance (kaffara -- usually an added 'kicker' like community service).
When not applied in the extreme, it has been a legal jurisprudence that works well in Muslim countries like Mali, Kazakhstan and Turkey where it is limited to personal and family matters, with the consent of both parties. Basically, fulfilling an arbitration role.
In the extreme, you get Iran, Saudi Arabia & parts of Pakistan\Afghanistan.