{"id":1460,"date":"2002-06-04T22:05:50","date_gmt":"2002-06-05T03:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2002-06-04T22:05:50","modified_gmt":"2002-06-05T03:05:50","slug":"dying_for_a_consensus_on_capital_punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/dying_for_a_consensus_on_capital_punishment\/","title":{"rendered":": Dying for a Consensus on Capital Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It says in the Qur\u2019an that the taking of an innocent life is like the killing of all mankind.  It also lays out scenarios in which the death penalty is an <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org%2Fdeathpenalty%2Fresources%2Freader%2F15.php3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">appropriate punishment<\/a> for a crime.  While most Muslims accept the principle of a death penalty, the application of that principle in today\u2019s world isn\u2019t that clear.  Despite popular impressions to the contrary, <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org%2Fdeathpenalty%2Fresources%2Freader%2F15.php3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim penal law<\/a> is ordered to be free of any spirit of vengeance or torture.  But aside from obvious cases like murder, the death penalty in the Muslim world is applied to everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com%2Fdurable%2F2001%2F01%2F09%2Fcsmcon.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">apostasy<\/a> (in Taliban-held Afghanistan) to being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimedia.com%2Farchives%2Fworld99%2Fpak-killing.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sunni or Shia<\/a> (arbitrarily, in Pakistan) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishipress.com%2Ffatwa-is.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">offending Muslims<\/a> (remember Salman Rushdie?) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundvision.com%2FInfo%2Fnews%2Fhijab%2Fdeath.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wearing a hijab<\/a> (in Turkey).  In the US, the recent trial and conviction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fpolitics_comments.php%3Fid%3DP199_0_10_0_C%26which%3Dpolitics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Imam Jamil Al-Amin<\/a> has led many Muslims to question the death penalty.  It\u2019s the application of the death penalty in such arbitrary, overtly political, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawoodi-bohras.com%2Fspotlight%2Fmideast_fisk.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">public<\/a> ways that is leading some (including <a href=\"http:\/\/venus.soci.niu.edu%2F%7Earchives%2FABOLISH%2Frick-halperin%2Fapr01%2F0426.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Shaykh Hamza Yusuf<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaytuna.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zaytuna Institute<\/a>) to say that Islam is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpfweb.org%2F200110_islamicresponse.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">against the death penalty<\/a>, at least as it is applied today in the Muslim world, arguing that \u201cthe measure of proof is so difficult that (the likelihood of a death sentence) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstdp.org%2Fmuslim.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">practically nullified<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the often abusive interpretations of Islamic law in the Muslim world, many try to more clearly define the legal Islamic threshold for taking a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Dying for a Consensus on Capital Punishment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In response to the often abusive interpretations of 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