Legal Penalty Quotes
Another edict banned beards. The modernization worked and today Turkey is the only traditional Muslim nation that is industrialized and modern. Turkey was the first, and for a long while, the only Muslim nation in NATO.
After this statement, he himself contracted syphilis.
As this quotation demonstrates, this problem has plagued America for a long time. In terms of crimes committed, for example, General Electric Corporation has committed more crimes than any other criminal enterprise, but it thrives despite this and the penalties are seen as just a slap on the wrist when they do get caught but they do not even get prosecuted for many of their crimes like most large corporations and rich individuals who commit crimes. The people who go to jail are usually the lower level or middle level criminals and the kingpins, the ones with the control and the money, rarely even get prosecuted. In the Great Recession, the largest banks in America committed tens of thousands of serious crimes by forging signatures and making false claims on legal documents. Not a single executive ever went to jail or was even given a suspended sentence. The banks paid small fines.
This is a typical law in most modern Muslim countries. Essentially, Muslim Sharia Law prohibits any insult to the Prophet, the Koran and other sayings of the Prophet. This law of course, violates the UN Declaration of Human rights and freedom oriented counties tend to deride the restrictions of freedom of speech and expression. However, to show that the Muslim nation is being “fair”, laws like this one supposedly “protect” people of other religions from the wounding of religious feelings when their religion is slandered. Christians and other non-Muslims are prosecuted commonly. At the same time, ultra-fundamentalist Muslim clerics and teachers at religious schools commonly preach hate and desecration of Christianity, Judiasm, and Hinduism commonly. None are ever prosecuted.
This attempt to restrict the opium trade led to the First Opium War between England and China. Some historians, and the Chinese at the time, characterized this as a legitimate attempt to rid China of a terribly debilitating vice. The English saw this as a protectionist measure against a trade agreement so that only Chinese businessmen could import and sell opium instead of competing with an open, free market. Some Chinese officials and advisors were motivated by one or both of these reasons, but they never considered at the time, general prohibition of opium. This was not done until the Empress Dowager prohibited the use of opium for all under 60 years of age in 1906, more than 70 years thereafter. See {641732}.
This early Pennsylvania law is surprising to many readers. Homosexuality under Mosaic law which most colonies followed was a capital crime. In the case of a Massachusetts rape law 3-years earlier, the judge was given discretion in imposing the death penalty for a traditional Biblical Capital Crime. However, in this Pennsylvania law, there was no provision for capital punishment for homosexual acts. Whipping was as far as they went.
