12 Dec 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
You have not misremembered. The practice of the Muslim Arabs �of Yemen can be found described, and the scholarly sources given, in Bostom's compendium "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,"�at p. 658 (right-hand column). The Jews were often treated as chattel slaves. When a Jew "belonging" to Arab Tribe A was killed by an Arab belonging to Arab Tribe B, the Arabs of Tribe A then had a right to kill a Jew 'belonging"�to Arab Tribe B. And justice was served. �This practice was�not something discarded long ago; it was observed in the Yemen in the mid-20th century, and reported on by a British scholar, R. S. Sarjeant (I'm not sure I have the spelling right), in a paper�published in the early 1950s.�
12 Dec 2008
Artemis
If this suspect actually committed the crime, and is not simply being targeted for calling for moderation in Islam,
and if he was actually arrested, and not merely claimed so by the police to placate the mettlesome Westerners,
and if he actually convicted of a crime, and is not excused by sharia for killing a lowly Jew,
and if he is actually sentenced to prison time, and is not immediately released during the next Eid celebration,
and if he actually enters a prison, and does not escape on the way to prison by telling his police escorts that he needs to enter a mosque alone to pray,
then I think we can say that justice will have been served.
12 Dec 2008
Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thank you for clarifying that Hugh.
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