{"id":6846,"date":"2013-12-16T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2013-12-16T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:21:40","slug":"the-muslim-who-amputated-his-hands-according-to-islamic-sharia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-muslim-who-amputated-his-hands-according-to-islamic-sharia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslim Who Amputated His Hands, ‘According to Islamic Sharia’"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cInfidels,\u201d or non-Muslims, or the wrong\u00a0kinds<\/em>\u00a0of Muslims (Alawites and Shia for example) are often seen as the natural recipients of Islamic violence, or jihad, as prescribed by Islamic law, the Sharia.<\/p>\n

Few, however, are aware exactly how Sharia can cause individual Muslims to do violence upon themselves.<\/p>\n

Last week, December 5, Arabic news website\u00a0Masrawy<\/a>\u00a0published a full report and interview with Ali Afifi, an Egyptian man who did just that\u2014violently cut off both his hands to punish himself for, and prevent himself from, stealing, \u201caccording to Islamic Sharia.\u201d\u00a0 A summary of the report follows:<\/p>\n

Four years ago, in Elgharbeya province, Egypt, 28-year-old Ali Afifi placed his left hand on the train tracks to be amputated by the wheels of a running train without using any anesthetics.<\/p>\n

Upon reviving, he went to the townspeople to show the stump of his bloodied arm while yelling at the top of his lungs, \u201cPeople, I was a thief, and praise Allah, he has forgiven me.\u201d \u00a0He repeated this multiple times, while passersby looked shocked.<\/p>\n

Normative Islamic law calls for the amputation of the hands of thieves, per Koran 5:38.<\/p>\n

Ali began his career as a thief at a very young age; however, one day he decided to stop being a thief and to find honest work. Despite his best efforts, the harder he tried to quit stealing the more intense was the comeback. He was unable, as he put it, to overcome \u201cthe devil\u2019s whisperings\u201d in his ears.<\/p>\n

According to Ali: \u201cI started at a young age. In first grade I stole other students\u2019 pens and sandwiches. When I grew up, I began to steal cell phones, gold, and money. I performed over one hundred robberies and was arrested multiple times, but I was a smart thief, always able to avoid making the charges stick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali\u2019s dad works as a Muezzin at one of the mosques and tried many times to dissuade him from being a thief, which caused problems between father and son. Ali\u2019s father took him to many Muslim sheikhs and clerics, and Ali asked them to amputate his hand \u201cin accordance with Islamic Sharia.\u201d The sheikhs refused, claiming that only the ruler can make such rulings, and that there are authorities responsible for dealing with such issues. One of the sheikhs encouraged Ali to repent once and for all.<\/p>\n

Ali said angrily, \u201cMost of these sheikhs traded with religion and refused to implement the Sharia [law] of Allah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problems between Ali and his father continued, until father decided to take son to a psychiatric center to help him quit stealing. But this also failed, because Ali continued to steal with his right hand (after having amputated his left hand).<\/p>\n

Said Ali: \u201cI saw that I did not deserve Allah\u2019s mercy unless I amputated my other hand. \u00a0Shortly before January\u2019s revolution [2011], I myself amputated my right hand using the same method I used for amputating my left hand [placing it under a speeding train]. I did this because I discovered that nothing was changing; I cannot repent unless I amputate my hand. Thus, I became the authority [sultan], judge, and executioner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali continued: \u00a0\u201cI went to the railroad tracks with joy, placing my right hand under the wheels of the train, experiencing peace of mind knowing that I will not steal again. Despite feeling this peace of mind as a result of my repentance to Allah, my family and neighbors were in shock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali now lives with his family, consisting of his parents and four siblings, in a modest home. He says with sorrow, \u201cI only receive 215 Egyptian pounds from the department of Social Affairs, but I cannot live on this amount of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

The repentant thief asks the government to provide honest work for him, or a special stipend, and an apartment to help him build a new life, so that he can support his family and get married. He also requested that King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia host him, as the first thief in the world to apply Islamic Sharia upon himself.<\/p>\n

Ali also prays that he becomes a role model for every repentant Muslim. And he wishes that authorities would implement Islamic Sharia as he applied it to himself, adding with disappointment, \u201cI applied the punishment of Islamic Sharia on myself and amputated my hands, but the Muslim Brotherhood did not implement Islamic Sharia.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many in the West will deem Ali \u201cinsane,\u201d it is important to note that, according to Islamic Sharia\u2014which those clerics he consulted with are learned in\u2014insane thieves\u00a0should not<\/a>\u00a0have their hands amputated, suggesting that those clerics who tried to dissuade him did not deem him insane, otherwise they would have used that line of reasoning with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 \u201cInfidels,\u201d or non-Muslims, or the wrong\u00a0kinds\u00a0of Muslims (Alawites and Shia for example) are often seen as the natural recipients of Islamic violence, or jihad, as prescribed by Islamic law, the Sharia. Few, however, are aware exactly how Sharia can cause individual Muslims to do violence upon themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,227],"tags":[1017,30,1060,545],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6796,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/muslim-jesus-demands-sharia-law-and-jizya-tribute\/","url_meta":{"origin":6846,"position":0},"title":"‘Muslim’ Jesus Demands Sharia Law and Jizya Tribute","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 Time and again, Muslims, especially those in Egypt,\u00a0project Islamic thinking onto Christians: thus the Coptic church has been\u00a0accused\u00a0of smuggling and storing weapons in its churches to take over the nation (when in fact mosques are regularly exposed housing illegal weapons for the jihad); of kidnapping and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1447,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/in-the-jaws-of-sharia-the-liberal-and-the-temptress\/","url_meta":{"origin":6846,"position":1},"title":"In the Jaws of Sharia: The Liberal and the Temptress","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Editor\u2019s Note: These postings were taken from\u00a0Jihad Watch\u00a0and\u00a0Pajamas Media, internet journals in which the author posts frequently. 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