A few times the lie has risen that crime is much less in muslim countries than in western ones.

This article refutes that to a large degree.


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AN Iranian woman has been arrested over the serial murders of five elderly women in the northern city of Qazvin, newspapers reported today. The woman identified only by her first name as Mahin, 32, has confessed to the murders which were committed between February and May, the Etemad Melli and several other dailies said. The Etemad Melli said Mahin's murderous modus operandi would be to approach her victims, who were aged between 50 and 70 years old, and offer to give them a ride in her yellow Renault. "The murderer strangled the victims after feeding them fruit juice which contained anaesthetics," the report said. A local police chief in Qazvin said psychologists believed Mahin's motives could be traced to her troubled relation with her parents in childhood. "It is likely that the murderer took revenge on women who resembled her mother and were of the same age because of her intense hatred of her own mother," police chief Akbar Hedayati said. He said, Mahin, a heavy-built track and field athlete and mother of two, had been arrested after her last prey - a 60-year-old woman - managed to get away from her car on May 11 and provided the police with major leads. Murder is punishable by death in Iran, which hangs hundreds of people every year.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25502229-12377,00.html

Turkey's penal system is at breaking point it has around 100,000 prisoners.

Iran...

The state of the prisons in Iran is a challenge in itself, though it is linked to some of the problems of the justice system. As have been presented through Table 1, the number of those jailed for drug-related crimes (dealers and addicts) from 1979 to 2003 was 2,556,143 individuals, an average of 106,509 per annum. From 1989 to 2003, an annual average of 130803 drug-related crimes has been committed.

In 2004-05, there were 136,427 prisoners (convicts) under the administration of the prisons authority; an unknown number of detainees under temporary arrest (estimate of 210,000) waiting for their court verdicts as well as unknown numbers of prisoners in the jails of various security organizations not under auspices of the Iran Prison Organizations. The known figure represents 490 prisoners per 100,000 of the population, which places the country among the six countries of the world with the highest incarceration rates. Over 95 percent of prisoners are men, which mean that prisoners compose about 1 percent of the male population. The very large number of accused detained in prison awaiting trials, which creates problems for the rights of the accused, contributes to the overcrowding of the prisons and is costly for the state

One major problem faced by the administration of justice in Iran is the overloading of courts with cases. Figures concerning the disaggregated cases that are annually cleared at the public, criminal and courts of Appeal show the extensive growth of courts' backlogs. From 2000 - 2004, an enormous backlog of 6,000,000 were pending at the courts thus creating a serious bottleneck for the administration of justice in Iran. This in turn caused the procrastination of the proceedings, some of which dragging for months and years, entangling those citizens who referred to the courts.

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Islamic militants beheaded a retired Christian carpenter abducted nearly two months ago in the southern Philippines, police said Monday. The 61-year-old was kidnapped April 21 on the island of Basilan by a kidnap gang believed allied with the Abu Sayyaf group, a small group of self-styled Islamic militants blamed for the country's worst terrorist attacks in recent years.

Philippines isn't muslim country so it is all a Zionist plot to dominate some members of this forum.

Is anyone surprised that the same people who come to our countries and commit crimes also commit crimes in their own countries?  The difference is that in their own countries they're perhaps more realistic and severely punish criminals.

Coral Sea wrote on Jun 18^th, 2009 at 1:04am:

Is anyone surprised that the same people who come to our countries and commit crimes also commit crimes in their own countries?  The difference is that in their own countries they're perhaps more realistic and severely punish criminals.

Suppose with sharia banking introduced (NAB, Australia) we could also introduce sharia punishment for crimes.