The legal solution to the Somalia pirates problem is to enforce Sharia law. Since the pirates have declared that they are thieves not terrorists or freedom fighters the proper responce would be to cut of one of their hands or shoot them. Yes or no?
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Robert
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OR we could just send a Task Force down there and send some Royal Marine Comandos to destroy their bases on land coupled with large airstrkes and a lot of UN Peacekeepers in Somalia while blowing them out of the water with our navies. THAT would be the proper response. Sharia law should be banned, not enforced.
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Depends on who you're talking to. Somalia has no functional government, so there really isn't anybody there to mete out sentences except the warlords. In the West, we don't subscribe to Sharia law -- hopefully, we don't subscribe to ANY religious laws -- and eye-for-an-eye is not the basis of our system of justice, and isn't likely to become the basis. So if a pirate is captured by, say, a Saudi Navy ship, I can imagine them perhaps meeting that kind of fate. If they're captured by a U.S. authority, they would face American-style law. But to say we're going to organize some sort of international enforcement agency based on Sharia law? No way. Not on my watch :)
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Implimenting religious laws is almost never the correct solution. Handing legal authority to the people already in control of the "spiritual" only consolidates power into the hands of believers. And believers can justify anything in gods name.
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