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In the West, homicide is a crime in which the state must intervene and apply punishment. Consequently, punishment for homicide in the West became arbitrary and lacking any uniformity.

Studies in the 60s showed that black Americans were sentenced to death for crimes which white Americans were only “doing time.”

In Islam, homicide is considered a civil wrong (tort). It is up to those who suffered the loss (the victim’s relatives) to decide on punishment or pardon.

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Objection to Islam is often raised against the death penalty prescribed for apostasy (abandonment of religion). Since religion in Western civilization came to be looked at as a personal choice which cannot be enforced by either Church or state, to execute a person for leaving his religion would naturally seem extreme.

It should be kept in mind that when capital punishment for murder was abolished in the UK in 1965 it was retained for treason and piracy with violence.

And it was also the legal punishment for setting fire to Her Majesty’s ships and dockyards until 1971.  The 1971 Criminal Damage Act replaced capital punishment with life imprisonment for these offences.

It should be kept in mind that when capital punishment for murder was abolished in the UK in 1965 it was retained for treason and piracy with violence. Most countries have executed its citizens for treason. Treason is an act of rebellion against the state. State secrets are given to other countries which may not be at war with the state.

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Usually translated by the Western media as “holy war” is a greatly misunderstood principle in Islam. There is no term in Arabic which means “holy war”. War is not “holy” in Islam it is either just or unjust.

The meaning of jihaad is “striving” or “struggle”. It is used in Islam to refer to a variety of different efforts enjoined upon the believers. Striving to keep God and His Messenger more important than loved ones, wealth and one’s own self is the most basic form of jihaad prescribed on every Muslim.

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