Two embassy workers. As apostates from Islam. From AP, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The al-Qaida in Iraq militant group said Thursday that it has sentenced to death two Moroccan embassy employees kidnapped last month in Iraq.The group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web forum that its ''Islamic court'' had judged the two men as ''apostates'' who were waging a ''war on Islam.''
''Based on this, the court decided to issue God's verdict upon the apostates and sentenced them to death,'' it said. The statement, whose authenticity could not be confirmed, did not say whether the two men had been killed.
Based on this, the court decided to issue God's verdict...
Uhh, I'm no theologian, but isnt it up to God to issue God's verdicts (or anything else of his, for that matter...)?
Just wonderful to see these scum in action.
Hey Umma, aint you proud ?
Whatever you do, dont do anything about it.
Thomas;
My first thought was who are these arrogant bastards to speak for God?
Are Islamic leaders coming forward to refute this sentencing?
Are they coming forward to condem these actions by Al-Qaeda terrorists in no uncertain terms?
Are they coming forward to say that it is Al-Qaeda that is waging a war on Islam?
Are they coming forward to condemn this as a violation of international law in the kidnapping and execution of Embassy employees.
Are they coming forward to ask who was the qualified, and certified sharia judge that presided over the trial and had jursidiction in this sharia court?
Are they coming forward to ask if these two embassy employees where given appropriate defence council under sharia law?
Oh that's right, only America and other civilized societies are to be held accountable for their actions,even when dealing with terrorists like Al-Qaeda.
Thomas;
My first thought was who are these arrogant bastards to speak for God?
Posted by: t-ham at November 3, 2005 09:22 AM
Hell, t-ham. They're only emulating their prophet, aren't they?
I have a procedural question. If God's verdict is not supported by the evidence presented at trial (I can not make that assessment until I have read the trial transcripts and the written verdict handed down by God) is the verdict appealable to a higher court?
This is not a facetious question. The right to an appeal is well entrenched in Western jurisprudence to eliminate to maximum extent possible the reality that convictions could be obtained in a lower court not on a fair presentation of evidence and challenges to that evidence, but on emotion and public hysteria. An appeal to a higher court having a jurisdictional territory much larger than the lower court has, as its intended effect, the removal the appellate judge(s) away the emotions and biases of the local populace of the lower court with the result ideally being an impartial analysis of the lower court proceedings.
Yet if God is the ultimate giver of laws and verdicts in an Islamic court, what procedural right would a convicted defendant have to seek an appeal of a God-given verdict to a higher court?
The only rational conclusion I reach is that God, if belief under any religion is that God has revealed laws to man, evidence may be presented against an accused of violating God's law but the judgment can only be rendered by a judge, and not by God himself (for who can truly speak for God?), who has applied the facts in evidence to God's law so that a verdict may be rendered while preserving the right of appeal.
Indeed Satan Lives At Mecca
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