A rejected idiot named Majid Movahedi threw a bucket of sulfuric acid over Ameneh Bahrami’s head, blinding and disfiguring her. This woman had been kind to the fool, by the way. She’d given the obviously impoverished man clothing.
An Iranian court ordered that five drops of sulfuric acid be dropped into his eyes. (Source)
This kind of Islamic justice I dig. An eye for an eye, or in this case, two eyes.
“Eye for an eye,” which I think is better understand as “an eye only for an eye,” is a principle of legal justice to encourage proportionate punishment for a crime. Not too lenient, and not too strict; hence, an eye only for an eye. The punishment must fit the crime, a principle codified in our own criminal laws.
Some people cite Matthew 5:39 to argue that Christ put an end to the eye-for-an-eye principle. Not true. As I’ve stated before, that passage deals with personal insults and offenses, not criminal behavior, and admonishing against personal retaliations.
What about capital punishment? Should a murderer be executed in a similar manner in which he killed (shot, tortured, lynched, hit upside the head, etc.)? Our country has developed a system of punishment in which execution methods like drawing and quartering, burning alive, disemboweling, and other methods I mentioned are considered “cruel and unusual,” even if the criminal killed his victim(s) that way. Too bad. I wouldn’t flinch in the slightest to know a child rapist and murderer received within himself the due penalty of his error. Would you?
Majid Movahedi, prepare for the darkness.
(Photo credit: Washington Post)
