Spanish Sharia Court sentences woman to death

[Driving Rain]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/313 ... r-adultery


Woman 'sentenced to death for adultery'
Nine men are awaiting trial in eastern Spain after allegedly sentencing a woman to death for adultery in an unofficial court held under Islamic sharia law.

The woman walked into a police station in March saying she had escaped captors who had taken her to a remote house in Catalonia where they "tried" and "convicted" her for adultery, a spokeswoman for the Catalonia regional police force said.

"According to the victim, she was taken against her will and sentenced to death by a group of men. The men may have formed a court to apply sharia law," the spokeswoman said.

Catalan police started a seven-month investigation into the allegations and arrested nine men on charges of illegal detention, attempted murder and forming part of a criminal band.

The spokeswoman said seven of the men remained in prison while two had been released on bail. Spanish media said the men were from north Africa, but the police declined to confirm that.

This is the act of a terrorist group IMO.

[scm]

Looks like everything is going the way it should be. I wouldn't exactly call these men terrorists.
I hope they get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Still though, my guess is the average public will judge these men much more harshly than any other group of gang rapists or gang murderers because they are moslem.

[Nark]

How are these men any different from a gang of murderers? Had she been killed, it probably would have been civilized, like a gentle stoning to death.

[Siddley Hawker]

If this happened in Canada, there'd already be a group calling for a rock registry.

[scm]

How are these men any different from a gang of murderers?

They're not.

[BoostedNihilist]

How are these men any different from a gang of murderers? Had she been killed, it probably would have been civilized, like a gentle stoning to death.

yeah, that's way better than death by phosphorus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phos ... se_in_Iraq

those in glass houses

[niss]

If this happened in Canada, there'd already be a group calling for a rock registry.

[Nark]

Yes boosted this is the same as fighting Iraq.

[HS-748 2A]

Personally, I'd like to round up those 9 wise men and give them each a phosphorous emima.

End of story.

Does that make me a redneck or a women's rights advocate?

'48

[niss]

They should round up those 9 wise men and give them each a phosphorous emima.

End of story.

'48

Why?

Because of their backwards belief that caused them to barbarically punish someone for something they should have the freedom to choose?

What do they say about glass houses?

Adultery in Michigan Punishable by Life in Prison


A ruling by the second highest court in Michigan has indicated that state lawmakers have inadvertently made anyone who commits adultery guilty of 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The law states that any sexual penetration "under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony" is 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct. Adultery is still a felony in Michigan but there have been no convictions under the law since 1971.

The unusual combination of laws was discovered when the state attorney general successfully appealed the decision to drop CSC charges against a married man who was trading drugs for sex with several women.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=59535

[Driving Rain]

Looks like everything is going the way it should be. I wouldn't exactly call these men terrorists.
I hope they get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The very act of sending a message to all women that no matter where you live you will receive a sharia judgement and sentence is an act of terror.

ter·ror (trr)
n.
1. Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
2. One that instills intense fear
3. The ability to instill intense fear:
4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
5. Informal An annoying or intolerable pest:

[. ._]

Did Saddam have sharia kickin' around? I forget.

I say we just get rid of religion.

OH NO, YOU SAID THAT ISTP?!?!?!?!



-istp

[Siddley Hawker]

Did Saddam have sharia kickin' around? I forget.

Nah, he just ran the offenders through a wood chipper. If he liked you, you went in head first. Or maybe that was one of the sons.

[AMM]

I say we just get rid of religion.

Good luck!

[Driving Rain]

All together now..... Give me that "OLD TIME RELIGION".... it's good enough for me.

[Jastapilot]

I'm a born again Atheist. I had an epiphany.

[scm]

It was an unofficial court in a 'remote' house - the muslim women population weren't aware of it, and I sincerely doubt that any other muslim women feel intense, overpowering fear, by this.

To each his own interpretation though, that's why i'm not a lawyer.
Cheers

[iflyforpie]

The scores of deaths at the hands of atheists like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim Il Sung, et al, proves that you don't need religion (at least a theistic one anyways) to kill people.

WRT Saddam, his Iraq was a pretty secular country before the war. One of the reasons Khomeni hated him so much was because of his lack of outward religious beliefs.

[Brewguy]

...I sincerely doubt that any other muslim women feel intense, overpowering fear, by this...

Really? You don't think other muslim women in that same part of Spain may now be worried about being kidnapped, dragged to a remote location, being tried by some unofficial court and then possibly being 'punished' by said court ... perhaps also with a death sentence?

Huh. I remember when there was a rapist on the loose around these parts, young women being scared to go out alone, or to remote areas. I remember when there was a sniper down in the US targeting cars on the highway that people were scared to drive in that area. The odds of being a victim are slim, but the fear comes quite naturally.

Well, good for them if they're not scared / worried about this.

[BTD]

The scores of deaths at the hands of atheists like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim Il Sung, et al, proves that you don't need religion (at least a theistic one anyways) to kill people.

Agreed,

However, the above don't kill people in the name of their atheism, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who did. People do kill in the name of their religion.

The above list of people are "bad" regardless of their spiritual beliefs.

What is the saying?

"Good people will do good, Evil people will do evil, but it takes religion to make a good person do evil."

[Siddley Hawker]

I'm a born again Atheist. I had an epiphany.

Epiphany is a Christian religious holiday, falling on January 6th. As an atheist, you can't have one. Nyaah!

[Jastapilot]

and that's why it's funny!

btw this is the definition I meant:
Epiphany (feeling): the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something

[niss]

Huh. I remember when there was a rapist on the loose around these parts, young women being scared to go out alone, or to remote areas.

So what terror alert colour were you at because the rapist was loose?

[Brewguy]

None. That was back in the good ol' days ... before terrorism existed

Incidentally, I never mentioned the words 'terrorism' or 'terrorist' in my previous post.

[iflyforpie]

However, the above don't kill people in the name of their atheism, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who did. People do kill in the name of their religion.

People don't kill in the name of atheism because atheism isn't a thing. There is no atheist creed, no atheist doctrine, and no singular atheist organisation. Atheism is simply absence of belief in a deity (which by itself, incidentally, isn't religion).

Stalin and the others I mentioned certainly killed in the name of Communism-an atheist system of belief. So do we judge all atheists by a few fanatics who abused power? I don't.

Fanaticism is evil no matter what religion or source. The Nazis are a perfect example of this. While many were Christian, it was not Christian doctrine that defined their beliefs.

"Good people will do good, Evil people will do evil, but it takes religion to make a good person do evil."

People are either good, or evil, or change because of their own choices. Many religions (perhaps all of them) have turned good people into bad people. But you don't need religion to do that. Street gangs have done so without any religion at all. But I have yet to hear of any evil person turning from evil ways because of atheism...