Let the punishment fit the crime
The Taliban have announced that extreme punishments, including execution and amputation, will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, who has an infamously zealous history in the pursuit of justice
, claimed that amputations were necessary for security
.
he dismissed outrage over their past public executions: "No-one will tell us what our laws should be."
Haji Badruddin, a Taliban judge, supported the group's brutal interpretation of Islamic religious law.
"In our Sharia it's clear, for those who have sex and are unmarried, whether it's a girl or a boy, the punishment is 100 lashes in public," Badruddin said. "But for anyone who's married, they have to be stoned to death... For those who steal: if it's proved, then his hand should be cut off."
These are men who quite clearly understand that the punishment should fit the crime. Unlike that blithering, mithering idiot Robert Buckland, who's happy to set violent offenders free in the UK, after serving only a fraction of their holiday at taxpayers' expense.
But I think I'll scratch Afghanistan off of my must visit
holiday list, all the same.