an eye for an eye.

[joebloggs]

Saudi knife attacker Ali al-Khawaher ‘sentenced to be paralysed’

A young Saudi man has been sentenced to be paralysed from the waist down as punishment for stabbing a friend in the back.



http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/03/saudi-...lysed-3582428/

[Arthur Little]

'Eye for an eye'

Previous punishments ordered in Saudi Arabia under Islamic sharia law have included eye-gouging, tooth extraction, amputation, cross amputation

... tooth extraction??

... wouldn't like to be a Saudi Arabian dentist!

[Arthur Little]

...

........ ... gumsy!

[Arthur Little]

dentists!

...... ... purveyors of torture ... "payin' for the pain" inflicted on patients.

, perhaps ... but then, you know me ... ... and my penchant for "injecting" 'a little' light-hearted humour into an otherwise serious subject.

[lordna]

"An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind"...... Ghandi

[grahamw48]

animals.

Sharia Law:

That apparently is what the majority of those living in Pakistan currently favour, as opposed to democracy (news report yesterday).

Also what a lot of muslims resident in this country would like to see practised in their own communities.

[Dedworth]

Also what a lot of muslims resident in this country would like to see practised in their own communities.

I'd like to see the reaction of those communities if a few of their groomers and drug dealers were strung up