THEME E- Crime and Punishment

Question 1

Aims of Punishment

Answer 1

RETRIBUTION:
“Life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” QURAN+BIBLE

REFORMATION:
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” BIBLE

DETERRENCE:
Shariah law is to cut of the hand of thieves. This is as a deterrence.

Question 2

Types of Crime

Answer 2

MURDER:
“Do not take life which God has made sacred” QURAN

“You shall not murder” EXODUS

HATE:
“You are all one in Christ” BIBLE

Question 3

Reasons for Crime

Answer 3

ADDICTION:
“Intoxicants are an abomination” QURAN

Muhammed said: “Intoxicants are the mother of all evils, Alcohol is not a medicine but a disease” HADITH

HATE:
“You are all one in Christ” BIBLE

“No Arab is superior to a non Arab” QURAN

OPPOSING LAW:
“Obey those of you in authority” QURAN

GREED:
“For the love of money is the root of all evils” BIBLE

Question 4

Religious attitudes to lawbreakers

Answer 4

“I was in prison and you came to visit me” BIBLE

“God commands justice… and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice” QURAN

Question 5

Suffering and Forgiveness

Answer 5

“Let them Pardon and Forgive. Do you not wish God forgave you” QURAN

“God is most merciful” QURAN

“I tell you not seven but seventy-seven time” BIBLE

Question 6

The Death Penalty

Answer 6

AGREE-
“Eye for and eye, a life for a life” BIBLE

“Do not take life which God has made sacred, except by right” QURAN

DISAGREE-
“If you have forgiven me who have sinned against you, your heavenly father would forgive you” BIBLE

“But if the culprit is pardoned by his aggrieved brother, this shall be adhered to fairly, and the culprit shall pay what is due in a good way” QURAN