The wicked of this earth never change. Rapists continue raping, murderers get addicted to serial-killing and pedophiles carry on abusing children. Drug-traffickers enjoy sending our kids to death while their own bank accounts swell. Mistaken, cravenly human rights groups are always there for the perpetrators of monstrosities. The victims are forgotten and their families advised to accept the untimely and meaningless deaths.
It is in this context that we must review the strict Islamic law followed in Saudi Arabia which allows public beheadings of various perverts for heinous crimes. 124 men this year and 5 recently were executed. When last week Prince Saud al-Faisal visited UK, he faced the ire of human rights group who clubbed these executions with other human rights’ violations in Saudi Arabia.
This is unfair to the Arabs. Capital punishment is one issue. Other human rights violations are another issue. The former is needed to check unspeakable horrors. The latter is clearly reprehensible and condemnable. Anything but brutal execution is construed by the yet uncaught psychopaths as weakness and license to do whatever they want. Execution becomes them.
The UK Independent has pointed out the case of Sandy Mitchell who says he has been tortured in Saudi prisons on trumped up charges of warring against the nation. He is accused of participating in bombings. He had marched to the Saudi Embassy during King Abdullah’s visit to the UK with 200 protesters. Neither did the British premier Gordon Brown say anything to the King about human rights. It does not reflect any Saudi fault. Brown, toeing time-honored US tradition, chose to keep silent. Without being in the good books of Saudi Arabia, Britain might lose easy oil. So how can we blame the Arabs for human rights atrocities when the international community chooses to look the other way?
The beheading issue demands separate treatment. It is unfashionable and a sign of Middle-Ages’ barbarism to support capital punishment, leave alone public beheadings. Often it seems preferable to let loose the dregs of humanity on the world rather than face candle-holding activists.
We cannot expect crime to go down with love, a hackneyed word, showered on people who freely choose and enjoy destruction of everything. Indeed, where is the love for the common good, the love for the victims? The common good demands that we do not hesitate to hand out capital punishment for the truly guilty.
When Brown was hosting King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia executed five men and all the usual groups decried the action. Psychologists stress that certain of us do not have any conscience. These people just do not have a sense of good and bad. They revel in what hurts others and in the sense of power they feel when a victim dies begging for mercy. It is a mercy for them to be killed. Then they can at least hope for some atonement. The fear of death forces criminals to experience the pain they have caused others.
Via: UK Independent
Image: Daily Mail
