Saudi justice - an eye for an eye - Democratic Underground

varun

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Wed Dec-07-05 08:01 AM
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Saudi justice - an eye for an eye

Thats why born again * loves Saudis so much...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1321800.cms

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said he would personally take up with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the issue of the Keralite jailed in Saudi Arabia, who will lose an eye if a court verdict there is implemented.

Naushad, hailing from Kollam district, had been directed by the court to give one eye to the person whose eye was lost during a scuffle with him....

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greyl

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Wed Dec-07-05 08:11 AM
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1. small point: "Eye for an eye" was originally a call for fairness

not revenge. It was an improvement to "your life for an eye", or "your hand for adultery", iow.

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