According to the Qur'an itself: "As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise" (5:38).
The spokesman for the Brotherhood, a group called "largely secular" by Obama's director of national intelligence, acknowledges they are Allah's own words, saying "there is no argument." But the spin is on, as Mahmoud Ghuzlan promises exceptions -- a moderate implementation, if you will, of a cruel and unusual punishment.
The supposed room for exceptions should be no reassurance, but another demonstration of how Sharia is simply bad government. If exceptions are made, the law is not being applied, but its letter remains unchanged, and in this case, intolerable. Ghuzlan himself is talking out of both sides of this mouth in his attempts to reassure, saying there is no arguing with Allah's word, but then promising laxity in enforcing it.
If a law can be selectively not applied, the government is corrupt, or there is something wrong with the law. In practice, those with money, power, and influence on their side will be better able to wiggle out of punishments, leaving the poor, marginalized, or unpopular to bear the brunt of what remains in any case a barbaric practice.
As we have seen with Iran's "morality" initiatives, the government will go after easy targets to look productive and effective. "Sharia execution urged for Mubarak," by Marie Colvin for the Sunday Times, August 8 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
The spokesman for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which portrays itself as a moderate Islamic movement, has called for execution and hand amputations if the Mubaraks are found guilty of murder and corruption.
"If a man has stolen millions of the state's money, the penalty is that I must cut off his hand," said Mahmoud Ghuzlan, a professor of biochemistry at Zagazig University. "There is no argument. These are God's words."
The group, banned for half a century, was legalised only after the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak.
Professor Ghuzlan said the penalty of amputation, mandated under sharia law, should apply to his sons Gamal -- the younger, who was being groomed as heir -- and Alaa, a businessman.
In a scene that transfixed the nation last week, the two brothers, both charged with profiteering, stood in court as their father lay on a trolley next to them.
Not the show-tune kind. A hospital gurney, in American usage.
The senior Mubarak, charged with responsibility for the deaths of about 850 protesters killed by his security forces, periodically craned his neck forward to peer from the defendants' cage out at the court.
Professor Ghuzlan had no sympathy. Mr Mubarak should be hanged if convicted, although "beheading by the sword" would be more traditional, he said.
He sought to paint sharia as a merciful alternative to Egypt's current legal system, saying a thief who stole only to feed his family would not suffer amputation.
Despite his words, Muslim Brotherhood rule would evidently be harsh. Adulterers would be whipped, alcohol banned, men and women separated in university classes and pre-marital sex and same-sex relationships would be forbidden.
Scant comfort will be taken from the spokesman's assurances that the Brotherhood, which is aware of worries about Islamic extremism, would seek only one-third of parliament's 504 seats. He admitted they planned to challenge for power in future elections.
Article of faith:
The Muslim Brotherhood's vision of Egypt will be anathema to the secular-minded Facebook generation and liberals who fought valiantly to unseat Mr Mubarak without its help.
All, supporters of Islam and sharia in the West, ought to change the strategy; (MSM to note!)
They are loosing, inch by inch and day by day.
The evidence of my claim of their losing position is in evidence in the fact the we are not seeing amputee-victims of sharia, walking the streets of the Uk, US and other parts of Europe.
Yes! 911, was actually 'beheading of unbelievers' (...a good Muslim, will say) - But it has not happened in all countries in the West. -At least, not yet.
Well, we see that many countries are really working hard to avoid '911 sharia-beheading ' repeating its self on their own soil.
I have no doubt that countries, like Norway and the United Kingdom, are among them.
"As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise" (5:38).
There's something for those fond of quoting Mein Qurampf 5:32 (as always, without ever acknowledging that the definition of "innocent" that contains DOES NOT apply to non-muslims), such as George W. Bush and Buraq Hussein Osama, to think about... Just the 6th verse after their favorite. But no one really needs to read six verses after 5:32 to come across such Mein-Qurampf-prescribed barbarism, do they? They just have to read the next, 5:33:
The punishment of those who wage war against aLLAH and its pEDOPHILE, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.
Not good news for Mubarak's body-double either, methinks.
Is this the democracy and freedom everyone was on about? Is democracy a time machine to take a country back to the seventh century?
When unrestrained by secular dictators, Islam inevitably morphs into the sinister monster that it is because Islam's god Allah delights in torturing his victims in the most cruel ways (cf. the muslim concept of hell). And sharia law is the outward manifestation of this Satanic religion called Islam.
The spokesman for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood...
Shouldn't that be spokesperson? Hillary has got to talk to these men.
...which portrays itself as a moderate Islamic movement...
Moderate Moslems are like Unicorns who couple with horses.
... has called for execution and hand amputations if the Mubaraks are found guilty of murder and corruption.
Well, I have noticed a pattern that, whenever Prez Barack Hussein talks about Moslems, he keeps wrinkling his brow and using the phrase on the other hand.
And what's the big deal, anyway? A Moslem gubmint that's not murderous and corrupt is like a Commie gubmint that's... not murderous and corrupt.
But, unlike their dour ideological cousins, at least the Moslems put some gusto in their endeavors. Me, I enjoy a man who enjoys his work.
Muslims (all Muslims, according to IBN Warraq) believe the Qur'an is Allah's literal, unchangeable word.
Period.
Somalia's Al-Shabab Muslims have amputated thieves' hands because Allah has mandated it in Qur'an 5:38.
Those amputations are NOT the result of 'a twisted interpretation of the Qur'an', and Muslims living in America need to be pressed to explain, publicly, where on the planet is the amputation of a thief's hands morally acceptable to them.
The only 'out' they have on this one is to not be asked.
"on the other hand"
Too funny.
So, why would we allow more people into the country who, if in the majority or in power, would cut off the hand of a rapacious bank teller or a neurotic movie star?
I note that we can shut off Muslim immigration completely without abridging in the least the rights of any Muslim who is already a citizen. Yes. They will be insulted and horrified, but will still retain their rights: freedom of religion, speech, property, trial by jury, etc.
A cruel and unusual punishment. THIS is the Law of Allah!
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http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/islamic-amputations.html
Whatever you think of Mubarak he was an ally of America for 30 years. I think it's disgraceful the way he was thrown to the wolves by the Obama administration.Is this the way Obama treats an ally?The Obama administration should have arranged safe passage for Mubarak and his family to Saudi Arabia.
"assurances that the Brotherhood... would seek only one-third of parliament's 504 seats. He admitted they planned to challenge for power in future elections."
We've seen this movie before:
Sept 1930: 18.3%
July 1932: 37.4%
Nov 1932: 33.1%
"Scant comfort will be taken"