Monday, December 01, 2008
Rough justice
Occasionally, there are applications of Islamic law that make a certain amount of sense.
A court in Iran has ruled that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid.
I always wonder who carries out these Islamic sentences. Blinding somebody with acid or chopping off a limb seem much more intimate, in the most gritty sense, than executing somebody by lethal injection or even electric chair. What sort of person does that job?
CWCID: The Jungle Trader.
P.S. It occurs to me that if I were teaching a creative writing class I would tell my students to choose a freaky news story on Jungle Trader and use it as the basis for a short story. There are ideas for hundreds of strange stories and probably a couple of dozen novels in the archives of that blog.
2 Comments:
By 
JPMcT, at
Mon Dec 01, 07:07:00 AM:
Given that logic, the best way to handle the Gitmo "problem" is simply to throw them off of the top of a burning building....
Hey....not such a bad idea!!!
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Mon Dec 01, 10:31:00 AM:
Thank you for the links to Jungle Trader, TH.
