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| India-Pakistan |
| An Eye For An Eye |
| 2003-12-12 |
| A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to be blinded by acid after he carried out a similar attack on his fiancée. The court in the town of Bahawalpur, Punjab province, sentenced Mohammad Sajid under the Islamic Qisas law that matches crime and punishment. Sajid blinded and mutilated his fiancee after her parents called off the couple’s engagement. The judge passed the sentence in an anti-terrorism court using a law enforced in 1979 during the rule of the dictator General Zia ul-Haq. "Acid drops will be thrown into his eyes in line with the Islamic laws," Mohammad Shahid, a court official told the Reuters news agency. "You want medieval, I’ll give you medieval!" The law allows for a like-for-like punishment unless clemency is agreed by the victim’s family. Sajid had admitted the attack, which he carried out in revenge for his fiancee’s family breaking their promise. Rights activists condemned the ruling. "How dare you apply the same rules to men!" "It is not a punishment but revenge," said Rashid Rehman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. I always thought revenge was the basis of islamic law? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Hmmm. I may have to re-evaluate my opinion of Sharia |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2003-12-12 3:29:46 PM |