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An Eye for an Eye ... Literally!

Dec 14, 2003 9:23PM PST

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On the other hand...
Dec 15, 2003 12:49AM PST

give that Islamic court some credit for having recognized (perhaps for the first time by such fundamentalist Islamic courts...) that the man's actions in disfiguring the woman were wrong. Typically, it seems, the women are disposable chattel and no one cares when a man kills or disfigures a woman for percieved family dishonors such as failing to produce the required dowry, failing to marry him, or failing to perform whatever "wifely duties" he imagined he was entitled to.

dw

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A very good point ...
Dec 15, 2003 1:04AM PST

... re: this kind of justice being dispensed on behalf of a female victim for a change. I do believe that us in a "civilized" society often react emotionally to such sentences -- I'll bet the family of Dru Sjodin would have welcomed the man apparently responsible for their daughter's death, and the countless victims/families like her/her's being dealt with under such a "primative" system of justice.

Evie Happy