Friday, August 20, 2010

Saudi judge seeks to paralyze assailant as punishment


Associated Press

A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, the brother of the victim said Thursday.

Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, 22, was left paralyzed and subsequently lost a foot after a fight more than two years ago. He asked a judge in northwestern Tabuk province to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under Islamic law, his brother Khaled al-Mutairi told The Associated Press by telephone from there.[...]

2 comments :

  1. An eye for an eye. This is what happens when we read the Written law without the Oral law.

    Christian law also holds this way, thus the death penalty.

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  2. These are the same people who nurtured and supported the 9/11 murderers and now nurture and support the building of a mosque on the doorstep of ground zero.

    It will get a lot worse before it gets better.

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