April 03, 2008
Adulterers Stoned to Death in Pakistan
I love how this paper identifies the court that condemned the couple to death as a 'qazi' court, and goes to great lengths to explain what a 'qazi' court is. Do they mean 'quasi'? In any events, they should be explaining that this is a 'sharia' court, or a court which administers Islamic law.
Who is to blame: the militants enforcing the law, or the law?
AKI:
A man and a woman have been stoned to death by militants inPakistan's north-west border region after an Islamic 'qazi' court found them guilty of adultery.Gotta love Muslims that claim they revere Jesus as a "Prophet", then overlook this little bit:A qazi court is an Islamic court, parallel to the Pakistani judicial system.
According to the Pakistani daily, Dawn, this is the first incident of stoning carried out in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the border of Afghanistan.
In the past, couples found guilty of adultery by militants or tribesmen were executed by firing squads.
The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Thanks to Publia
