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View Full Version : How many Saudi judges are mentally ill?


The idea
19th January 2004, 09:10 AM
In categorizing offences and deciding punishments, judges are guided mainly by vaguely worded laws and general principles of Islamic jurisprudence on crimes and punishment which are subject to different interpretations by different Islamic jurists. For example, it is the judge who decides what constitutes apostasy. 'Abd al-Karim Mal al Allah, a Shi'a Muslim, was found guilty of apostasy and executed in 1992. It has been reported that he was told by the judge ''abandon your rejectionist beliefs or I will kill you''.

Source:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGMDE230152001

The idea
19th January 2004, 06:42 PM
For those who would deny that the judge mentioned in the first post is mentally ill, I have a couple of questions.

If you threaten to kill someone over a difference of opinion, then is that a sign that you are mentally ill only if you don't intend to carry out the threat? Is it a sign that you are mentally ill only if you aren't part of the government power structure?

Where are all of the moral relativists? Shouldn't they be outraged by this show of cultural imperialism? Shouldn't a thousand flowers bloom and ten thousand unorthodox thinkers die from judicial causes?