 The Hudood Ordinance does not apply to non-Muslims because it is a religious law, Javed Ahmad Ghamdi, a noted religious scholar and intellectual, told Geo television programme 'Jawabdeh' on Sunday.
| My mind just boggled at the thought of an al-Ghamdi, a noted religious scholar, of course, wearing a black turtleneck and chain smoking Gauloises... |
"Minorities should be exempt from the Hudood Laws and be punished in accordance with their own laws," said Ghamdi.
| What if their own laws call for leaving them the hell alone? That would be un-Islamic, wouldn't it? |
A Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man could not be punished under the Hudood Ordinance, both should be punished according to their own laws, he said.
| So the guy could stroll away whistling, while the woman ended up under a pile of rocks. And they say there's no justice in shariah... |
Only that section of public law would be applied to non-Muslims that was made on a secular basis, he added.
| I'm of the opinion that only secular laws should apply to anyone. Government has to be stingy with who it allows to use violence, and most of shariah seems to call for killing or maiming people in one way or the other. |
The scholar said the Hudood Ordinance was the wrong interpretation of divine laws. "The interpretation of divine laws in Hudood Ordinance is totally against Islamic knowledge and wisdom," he said. Islam does not describe any jail sentence for women, he added.
| Of course it doesn't. It prescribes death. |
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