alt.education

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:06:18 -0400, buckeye
wrote:

>To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of
>hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed. By contrast, who
>today remembers that the much-loved English common law called for execution
>as punishment for hundreds of crimes, including theft of any object worth
>five shillings or more?

Note the use of the past tense WRT English Common Law. Civilized
nations no longer do such things. Sharia Law still calls for cutting
off people's hands for such crimes, and being based on purported
divine pronouncement, this is unlikely to ever change. It has no place
in any civilized world.