RLENT... you really are a piece of work. I scored at the 95th percentile in both Analytical Reasoning and Logical Reasoning when I sat for the Law School Admission Test(LSAT). You wouldn't know logic if it bit your behind. Get lost.
RLENT complains (albeit off topic) to being frustrated in not being able to change a thread title, and you inform him that his frustration on that issue will end if he would only go back up and read the first post in this thread. I'd love to know the analytical and logical reasoning for that response. But that would, of course, also be off topic, as the topic of this thread is strictly about a specific case in a single country where religious law and punishment has supplanted the secular law and punishment.
In that context, the punishment seems to be rather justified, as the ruling religious text of the Qur'an states (Chapter 5, Verse 45), "Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal." It goes on to say that if the victim forgives the perpetrator, then the perpetrator is expiated of his crime, but also states that, "Those who do not judge according to what God has revealed are unjust." So the judges really have no choice, under Islamic law, but to dole out the punishments ordained by God.
I, too, would be interested in what others would consider an appropriate punishment in this case, considering the fact that any punishment outside the retributive justice of the religious law would be a direct disobeying of the religion and an affront to God.
If I'm not mistaken, there are other Abrahamic religions that have similar decrees about justice. So it's probably a good thing that so few countries use religion as part and parcel of their state laws and that a very small percentage of the world's population are subject to that kind of barbaric subjugation.
