While this is somewhat reminicent of the Code of Hammurabi, it should be remembered that Hammurabi’s code was actually a step forward for the time. A way of limiting the response to an injustice, not a barbaric threat to potential criminals.
It is also interesting that the KSA has opted for this bit of legislation while ignoring things like due process and rational rules of evidence.
H/T Bear
Yahoo.Com
DUBAI (Reuters) – Amnesty International has condemned a reported Saudi Arabian court ruling that a young man should be paralyzed as punishment for a crime he committed 10 years ago which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.
The London-based human rights group said Ali al-Khawaher, 24, was reported to have spent 10 years in jail waiting to be paralyzed surgically unless his family pays one million Saudi riyals ($270,000) to the victim.
The Saudi Gazette newspaper reported last week that Khawaher had stabbed a childhood friend in the spine during a dispute a decade ago, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Saudi Arabia applies Islamic sharia law, which allows eye-for-an-eye punishment for crimes but allows victims to pardon convicts in exchange for so-called blood money.
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Of course, the eye-for-an-eye rule only applies if the victim is a decent sharia-abiding male member of the Muslim community. Had he paralyzed a woman or an infidel then he would have probably got off scot-free, or of course, if he was rich and could afford the blood money!
And all thanks to the misogynistic, xenophobic cretin called Mohammed.
Alan Dershowitz stated that eye for an eye was an improvement on existing law & practices. He stated this on documentary for History Channel. An eye for an eye means “no more than” an eye for an eye.
The family of the victim or the victim could have forgiven Ali al-Khawaher and the Saudi judicial authorities, I think would have been satisfied.
I believe that eye for an eye replaced blood feuds and such. Anglo-Saxon society had were-gold just like Islam. The Anglo-Saxons also had blood feuds that existed up until the Stuart monarchy and laster well into modern America in the Hartfields & McCoys.
Modern gangs live by the feud.
If Ali al-Khawaher had committed this crime in the U.S. and served 10 years or less, I for one would probably complain. If he served under 20 I might complain.
I guess my feelings would depend on how the victim felt, the victim’s family and what the Ali was like (genuine remorse, recidivism). It might also depend on medical technology. If they could fix his spinal cord & we might in this generation. I would garnish his wages. If Ali squeals to loud, there is always prison for several decades.
I’ll side with the Saudis on this one.