MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hamas enacts Islamic law: Hand amputation, crucifixion, lashes and execution

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Hamas enacts Islamic (Sharia) laws:

Hand amputation, crucifixion, lashes and execution

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch

Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza have approved a new bill "to implement Koranic punishments," including hand amputation, crucifixion, corporal punishment and execution. Drinking, owning or producing wine is punished by 40 lashes, while drinking in public adds three months' imprisonment. Several laws are directed against Hamas's Palestinian rivals, including a law intended to inhibit non-Hamas negotiators by sentencing to death anyone who was "appointed to negotiate with a foreign government on a Palestinian issue and negotiated against Palestinians' interest."

 

The following is the description as it appears today on the Al Arabiya website:

Headline: Hamas approves law of punishment by lashes, amputating hands, crucifying, and execution -- in order to implement the Islamic Sharia law.

Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council approved in its meeting in Gaza a new bill proposed by the Hamas who have a majority in the Legislative Council, whose purpose is "to implement Koranic punishments." The newspaper Al Hayat of London reported on Dec. 24, 2008, that this step is seen as unprecedented, and has brought criticism and concern from human rights organizations in the Gaza Strip, especially as this law includes punishments by lashes, cutting off of hands, crucifixion, and execution...

The language of the law proposes "primary and secondary" laws. Primary laws include: "Koranic laws, blood revenge, lashes, crucifixion, and execution ..."

The text stresses: "These punishments will not be canceled or pardoned ... except if pardoned by the victim himself...

Comments

[armaros]

Crucifixion? ahh yes...

Good.

First door to the right;

One cross each,

please stand in line for further instructions .

[MooPig]

NIMBY: Those Hamas dudes must have lead in their water... its all I can figure. Merry Christmas Atlas Sphere, and all the lasses and lads. 2009 is going to be the greatest ever year for us all.