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[QUOTE]Originally posted by unfinished thought.: [QB] Nothing cries Peace, and love, like a good old fashion amputation. All good and legal like. [i]"MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for allegedly stealing mobile phones and guns.."[/i] [URL=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7OaI4_kjeHA-o4UhlmP7vlWmrrwD98VSVCO0]Islamic court sentences Somalis to amputations[/URL] Amnesty International appealed to al-Shabab not to carry out the "cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments," all while failing to recognize that it is not al-Shabab but rather sharia law that calls for "cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments." I will quote two of Islamic scholars of the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence (since that is the school generally followed in Somalia): Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi: "All owned property beyond a certain minimum if stolen by a major in possession of his own faculties who has no rightful claim to it incurs the amputation of the right arm at the elbow joint." (Al-Mawardi, The Ordinances of Government [Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya], translated by Wafaa H. Wahba. Garnet Publishing, 1996, p. 245). Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri: "A person's right hand is amputated, whether he is a Muslim, non-Muslim subject of the Islamic state, or someone who has left Islam, when he: (a) has reached puberty; (b) is sane; (c) is acting voluntarily; (d) and steals at least a quarter of a dinar (n: 1.058 grams of gold) or goods worth that much (A: at the market prices current) at the time of the theft..." (Ahmed ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller ['Umdat al-Salik]: A Classical Manuel of Islamic Sacred Law, translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller. Amana Publications, 2008, o14.1). In terms of traditional Islamic jurisprudence the Somali al-Shabab group is hardly "extremist" (as the article would have us believe), but quite within the mainstream of Sunni judicial thought. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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