Sharia in action in Mali: Islamic supremacists "cut off my hand with a knife"
By Anonymous — Monday, February 18th, 2013
"There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways..." -- Reza Aslan Not really: "[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise." -- Qur'an 5:38 "Mali prisoner: 'Militants cut off my hand with a knife,'" by Thomas Fessy for BBC News, February 15: Algalas ag Moutkel points his left arm at the writing on the wall of the cell in which he was incarcerated during the rule of militant Islamists in Gao in northern Mali. Each day that... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/02/-theres-really-no-such.html |