{"id":12436,"date":"2012-08-12T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2012-08-12T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:24:48","slug":"judaism-islam-and-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12436","title":{"rendered":"Judaism, Islam and the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; surprising infrequency of capital punishment, though mandated in Sharia and Torah ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always struck by formal parallelisms, particularly in matters religious &#8212; so when I came across this fascinating reference to the infrequency of capital punishment by stoning in the Ottoman Empire in a book review today (upper panel):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPEC-capital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPEC-capital.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC capital\" width=\"592\" height=\"618\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPEC-capital.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPEC-capital-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was immediately reminded of a similar Jewish reluctance to use capital punishment &#8212; stoning being one of the four choices &#8212; as recorded in Tractate Sanhedrin (lower panel)<\/p>\n<p>And i thought the <strong>Dalai Lama<\/strong> (inset) might like it too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s more detail and nuance to be had in each case, but the parallelism is nevertheless instructive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/378752\/in-the-court-of-the-mad-king\/\">Review of Kadri in Pakistan&#8217;s <em>Express Tribune<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/judaica\/ejud_0002_0004_0_03929.html\">Jewish Virtual Library, <em>Capital Punishment<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a personal note, highly subjective: you gotta love R. Akiva &#8212; but you gotta respect R. Simeon, too.  <\/p>\n<p>As usual, life is nuanced and &#8212; dare I say this? &#8212; &#8220;systems dynamic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; surprising infrequency of capital punishment, though mandated in Sharia and Torah ] . I&#8217;m always struck by formal parallelisms, particularly in matters religious &#8212; so when I came across this fascinating reference to the infrequency of capital punishment by stoning in the Ottoman Empire in a book review today (upper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,753,717,278,689,699,807,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-systems","category-islam","category-judaism","category-legal","category-sharia","category-tibet","category-torah","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12448,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions\/12448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}