Atlas Shrugs Shits On Family Values
Pamela, Pamela, Pamela… If the families were Christian or Jewish, would it be okay then? What’s wrong with settling out of court? Maybe it’s the need to see every ill-action punished by the state instead of cleaned up by the families of the aggressors and the victims?
Guilty of common sense while Muslim?
Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim’s family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail.
A hearing was convened and elders ordered the assailants to compensate their victim. “All their uncles and their fathers were there,” said Mr Yusuf. “So they all put something towards that and apologised for the wrongdoing.”
Sharia law shouldn’t be the official law of any western nation (well, any nation, in my opinion, since it’s theocratic law), but for those who can settle out of (state) court and use it amongst themselves, that’s called family values. Christians and Jews do it every day, and Muslims are no different.
This is just a very poor example of what the author was trying to explain, I think.
