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Islamic Law and its Origins

In Our Time: Religion

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The Judiciary Bar Is Very High

The dramatic punishments that one finds stipulated within the coran are given enormously high evidential bar. For example, the punishment for adultery is severe, stoning to death if you are a married person engaged in adultery. And this is a highly unlikely em circumstance to to take place. So they build in a very high evidentiary bar which means that, in effecttat the punishment becomes theoretical for them. It becomes a theoretical punishment. The same is true for nearly all these dramatic punishments, the amputation of of the hand for theft and the lashes for alcohol. They, as hugh has just been laying out, these athat. In order for these punishments to be carried out,

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