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This is true. In fact, Saudi Arabia is in the
Top 10 of countries with the With The Strictest Laws In The World.
But then, so is Japan.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, Yemen, Somalia and some states in Nigeria still have some of the harshest punishments.
The fact of the matter is that in Muslim countries women can't drive, can't go places unaccompanied by males, are subject to child marriages and genital mutilations,
Some of those things apply to Saudi Arabia, Not Palestine or any other Muslim country
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But strict laws do not always involve brutal and inhuman punishments. Just recently we've heard of several cases if radicalized Islamic Law practitioners burning people to death; including a young women for witchcraft and a captured military pilot. And we've all heard of radicalized Islamic Law practitioners carrying out honor killings, beheadings, mutilations, stoning, and amputations.
We all have heard how insensitive and disrespectful Islamic law is towards women. But the one that I thought was really representative of the Arab Palestinians was:
The Palestinian Authority Sunday reaffirmed the death penalty for any Palestinian found guilty of selling land to Israelis.
The decision came in response to a ruling by a Palestinian court according to which such acts were only a “minor offense.”
SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post 04.03.2016 | 24 Adar II, 5776
Every time I hear the Arab Palestinians complain about casualties; I fall back on incidents like this and reafirm, that the Palestinians have very little regard for law and human life.
There is definitely differences between the human development of the Western Cultures and those of the Islamic world. The UK is now struggling over this issue.
LONDON (AP) — The Crown Prosecution Service successfully presented their case and a jury at London’s Kingston Crown Court found Junead Khan guilty of preparing an act of terrorism. HM's Security Service (MI-5) discovered a plan to attack on US Service Personnel.
Junead Khan and his 23-year-old uncle, Shazib Khan, enter the sentencing phase on sentenced May 13. Junead Khan faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
And
LONDON (AP): A man was handed a two year jail sentence today after becoming the first in England to be convicted of keeping his wife "in domestic servitude".
In what the Crown Prosecution Service said was the first case of its kind in England, London's Woolwich Crown Court heard that Safraz Ahmed, 34, imprisoned and beat his wife after an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
Sentencing Ahmed to two years in prison for holding a person in domestic servitude, Judge Christopher Hehir told him: "She was bullied and controlled by you, given little money and expected to cook, clean and look after your family as if she was a skivvy.
The Western World holds differing view and was is ethical and proper. The next decade or so will be interesting.
Most Respectfully,
R