I read the sensitive and debatable article of Khalid Alnowaiser (“Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia,” Arab News, Dec. 8). It seems that the writer is not satisfied with the law of death penalty, and hence, with the present judicial system in this great Islamic country of Saudi Arabia. There was nothing new in the article. It has been a practice of the critics and those who call themselves modern and who make hue and cry in the name of human rights, reforms and so.
Alnowaiser has used a wrong channel to articulate his opinion about the death penalty. This article creates an impression that the present Saudi judiciary system that includes capital punishment is wrong and that it is not implemented as per the Qur’anic teachings, which is not correct. If he thinks that there is something wrong in the present judicial system, he should approach and discuss this out with the concerned authorities, qualified scholars, legislative bodies and Islamic law experts, and present his views and suggestions for the setting right the misconception and misunderstandings (if any) and that will be the appropriate channel. By writing in the newspaper on such a sensitive and important subject will produce nothing positive except confusion and misunderstanding. — A reader, by e-mail
Confusion about death penalty
