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The penalty for theft
-In accordance with the Holy Qur'an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed.
A convicted rapist, murderer, kidnapper, or drug smuggler gets their head chopped off
in public. Adulterers are stoned to death. Women
and men who commit fornication are whipped 100 times in public since virginity is important for both men and women until marriage in Islam.
In Islamic countries that practice strict Shariah Law, there is virtually zero crime of any sort...and almost zero out of wedlock mothers.
The US incarcerates 743 people per 100,000...the U.S. is home to 5% of the global population but 25% of its prisoners. Contrast that to Pakistan where it's 58 per 100,000.
So in an info-vacuum, it would seem we should adopt strict Islamic
punishment methods like you effectively suggest right?
Not so fast.
Back to our insane drug laws that make a $ Trillion for-profit industry (not to mention destroy more lives) out of the prison system, the law enforcement system, the court system, and of course their marketing arm, the broadcast media.
What country has the most liberal drug laws in the world?
NO! It's not the Netherlands (Holland).
It's Portugal...which in 2001 became the first European country to officially
abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.That was 10 years ago.
So, did Portugal become some Sodom & Gomorrah of drugs? Have all the children gone bat-shit crazy in a hallucinogenic induced orgy?
said by The CATO Institute :
The Cato Institute finds that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized (just 5 years), illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
Between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half.
Ten years ago, Portugal's incarceration rate was about 150 per 100,000, today it's 109 per 100,000. A 33% reduction in just 10 years.
You will hear our douche-bag media talk about Shariah Law, but under no circumstances will you hear them talk about the successes of Portugal's drug legalization.