While I am absolutely no fan a Sharia, you can hardly use this one case as an indictment of their legal system. We don’t want anyone condemning us based on the OJ trial.
Didn’t plenty of Americans, perhaps with good justification, condemn the legal system after that trial? There have been a number of Sharia trials (Amina Lawal comes to mind) that have been as bad as this one.
50 Libyan children dead and hundreds more at risk because of of unconscionably lax hospital standards - but blame instead goes to scapegoated health care workers while systemic problems are ignored.
Can anyone supply links to the stories about outraged Muslims marching by the thousands to protest this injustice?
Surely there have to be protests.
This is a whoosh, right?
Shame on all of you. We have no right to judge their laws and culture. They are different than ours, that does not mean ours are superior.
(Do I really need to include the :rolleyes:?)
I thought he was being ironic, but I do see stories about the families leading protests in Libya. I don’t know if others or other people in Muslim nations are protesting as well. I also don’t know how much coverage that aspect of the protests would receive. Anyway…
I realize you are being facetious, but in an authoritarian country like Libya where the government-controlled press has been relentlessly pushing the guilt of these unfortunates, it is highly unlikely that most people there have any real grasp of what is going on. Beware of Doug pretty much nailed it - this is par for the course in a Third World dictatorship, Muslim or no.
In point of fact when the Libyan Supreme Court kicked the convictions back down the first time, that engendered riots in Benghazi by people quite convinced they were guilty. Never underestimate the power of bizarre conspiracy theories in a country where they’ve been spoonfed them for a generation or two now.
By the way the Libyan legal system is one of those bizarre amalgams of shari’a and various European civil codes ( especially the Italian ). See here for a brief introduction:
- Tamerlane
Depends. Is it reflexive?
It is a game to him.
He’s willing to piss away the lives of his own people for personal gain. Why not the lives of foreigners?
**Ralph ** - I don’t know you, so I’m just going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you’re just ignorant or developmentally challenged rather than wilfully bigoted.
First of all, even if this so-called “trial” is fucked-up (and it is, we all agree to that), it’s fucked-up because Libya is a despotic regime with a thoroughly corrupt system and because Gadhaffi is a fucking loon, NOT because the Islamic system of Sharia law is to blame.
Secondly, the Libyan legal system, as I see **Tamerlane ** has just pointed out, is NOT based solely on Sharia law and therefore to conflate or equate one with the other is just plain wrong.
Finally, and more importantly, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of foreign workers are living and working in Muslim countries like Dubai, Egypt, Malaysia, etc with no problem whatsoever and at no threat to their lives. Just ask Paul in Saudi. To assert that such workers could be in danger because Sharia Law is is eeeevil and insidiously dangerous is so totally fucking ignorant and racist that I can only assume you must have a problem with Islam and Muslims in general, and that you’re attempting to use the treatment of the nurses as some kind of pathetic justification for your inherent fuckwitted bigotry.
Qaddaffi has made it plain: the nurses are hostages for the release of the terrorists that set the Lockerbie Bomb.
For more, & a more complete quote–
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/gaddaffi-connects-freedom-of-bulgarias-nurses-to-lockerbie-bombing/id_19651/catid_68
Yeah-where are the "human rights’ people on this? Where is the traditional islamic compassion? The silence is deafening-of course, when the islamic world reacts in shock to some cartoons published in an obscure Danish newspaper, the world is in an uproar-but the judicial murder of 50 innocent nurses elicits scarcely a peep.
Yeah-Sharia Law-pass it on! 
Looks like you missed my last post…
Again, Libyan Law is not Sharia Law. Muslims can and do protest against exactly this sort of injustice, it’s just that:
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[li]They’d be shot if they demonstrated in Libya[/li][li]Not that many people in the Muslim world have the same unfettered access to unbiased media as you do, and I’m willing to bet that not a whole lot of them are familiar with this case [/list][/li]
Yes there are Muslims who speak out, but evidently not loud enough to suit you.
You missed a couple of things here: first of all, Libya did lead the Human Rights Commission and it happened almost four years ago; Gadaffi doesn’t chair the commission, Libya does; “the UN” didn’t want it, the African nations nominated Libya and it won a vote. I agree that it’s gross, why is it relevant here?
You’re not reading very closely, are you? Fifty kids have died of AIDS. They’re talking about executing five nurses and a doctor.
WHAT COUNTRIES ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
**Marley ** - I think our mentally challenged little friend is worried about the pernicious eeee-ville of the Sharia system of Law and is equally worried that it will creep it’s way across the globe to oppress and degrade right-thinking people everywhere.
He’s only trying to warn us of the obvious danger, the poor thing…
I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought Islam itself a threat.
Yeah, maybe, but when he said “those of you contemplating allowing Sharia law (in your countries),” it sounded like he must’ve had somebody in mind.
I just took it as anti-Islamic whack-job conspiracy fruit-cakery. AFAIK there isn’t anyone here who’s thinking of “allowing” Sharia law in their countries, hence the utter bizarreness of his warning.
To be fair, there are some instances of allowing Islamic law in domestic cases in (IIRC) Canada, but even if that’s the case, it certainly doesn’t rise to the level of allowing full Sharia law in every instance, and even more importantly, precious few even here in the SDMB are even okay with that, let alone the full application of Sharia law.