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{{Quote|2=I use a special sharp knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where it is to be taken off, so I follow that.<ref>[http://www.arabnews.com/?page=0§ion=1&article=27038&d=5&m=6&y=2003 Kingdom’s Leading Executioner Says: ‘I Lead a Normal Life’ - Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News - June 5, 2003]</ref>}} | {{Quote|2=I use a special sharp knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where it is to be taken off, so I follow that.<ref>[http://www.arabnews.com/?page=0§ion=1&article=27038&d=5&m=6&y=2003 Kingdom’s Leading Executioner Says: ‘I Lead a Normal Life’ - Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News - June 5, 2003]</ref>}} | ||
Amputation is used as punishment for theft in Nigeria, which reintroduced shariah law in 1999.<ref>[http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-09-19-nigerian-islamic-court-orders-amputation Nigerian Islamic court orders amputation - Mail & Guardian Online - September 19, 2005]</ref> This, along with other shari' | Amputation is used as punishment for theft in Nigeria, which reintroduced shariah law in 1999.<ref>[http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-09-19-nigerian-islamic-court-orders-amputation Nigerian Islamic court orders amputation - Mail & Guardian Online - September 19, 2005]</ref> This, along with other shari'ah punishments, are "overwhelmingly" supported by the Nigerian Muslim population,<ref name="Nigerian Muslims Support Sharia">[http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Nigeria/October03/harsh.html NIGERIAN MUSLIMS SUPPORT HARSH PUNISHMENT] - Peace Women, October 2, 2003</ref> and by 2003 three men already had their arms amputated for stealing; a goat, a cow, and two bicycles.<ref name="Nigerian Muslims Support Sharia"></ref> In Somalia, one man found guilty of stealing was put on public display as his hand was severed at the wrist and then dangled by the index finger.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8057179.stm Somali justice - Islamist-style by Mohamed Mohamed, BBC Somali Service - May 20, 2009]</ref> In June of the same year (2009), a court run by an Islamic group sentenced four Somali men to each have a hand and a leg cut off for allegedly stealing mobile phones and guns.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528139,00.html Islamic Extremists Sentence 4 Somalis to Amputations - Associated Press, FoxNews.com - June 22, 2009]</ref><ref>[http://www.javno.com/en-world/somali-islamists-amputate-teenagers-hands-legs_267541 Somali Islamists Amputate Teenagers` Hands, Legs - JAVNO, June 25, 2009]</ref> In 2008, the Islamic Republic of Iran saw five double amputations in a single week--five convicted robbers were each sentenced to have their right hands and left feet amputated.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran - Nazila Fathi, The New York Times - January 11, 2008]</ref> | ||
When the Taliban, an Islamic militant group, took over Afghanistan in 1996, within a year, public executions, amputations and stonings were a regular Friday event in Kabul.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1600136.stm Flashback: When the Taleban took Kabul - Terence White, former AFP correspondent in Kabul - BBC News - October 15, 2001]</ref> In 1998, the AFP reported this | When the Taliban, an Islamic militant group, took over Afghanistan in 1996, within a year, public executions, amputations and stonings were a regular Friday event in Kabul.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1600136.stm Flashback: When the Taleban took Kabul - Terence White, former AFP correspondent in Kabul - BBC News - October 15, 2001]</ref> In 1998, the AFP reported this event: | ||
{{Quote|2=The hardline Taliban Friday publicly executed a murderer and amputated limbs of two robbers amid shouts of "God is the Greatest" at the Kabul stadium, witnesses said. Thousands of Taliban soldiers and citizens, including women, watched the proceedings. The murderer squatted and after his face was covered with a pink mask he was shot dead by the father of the man allegedly killed by the accused earlier this year. Later a team of surgeons wearing blue masks chopped off right hands and left feet of two men convicted of highway robbery. The surgeons amputated the limbs after anaesthetizing the convicts and left the severed limbs on the ground for the spectators to rush and have a close look. The three were convicted by a military tribunal created by the Taliban supreme leader Mulla Omar to deal with criminal cases under the Islamic Sharia law. Taliban, who now control almost three-quarter of Afghanistan, have enforced punishments in public under the Islamic law which they say helped deter and curb criminal acts.<ref>[http://www.rawa.org/execute4.htm Taliban publicly execute murderer, amputate two robbers - AFP - August 14, 1998]</ref>}} | {{Quote|2=The hardline Taliban Friday publicly executed a murderer and amputated limbs of two robbers amid shouts of "God is the Greatest" at the Kabul stadium, witnesses said. Thousands of Taliban soldiers and citizens, including women, watched the proceedings. The murderer squatted and after his face was covered with a pink mask he was shot dead by the father of the man allegedly killed by the accused earlier this year. Later a team of surgeons wearing blue masks chopped off right hands and left feet of two men convicted of highway robbery. The surgeons amputated the limbs after anaesthetizing the convicts and left the severed limbs on the ground for the spectators to rush and have a close look. The three were convicted by a military tribunal created by the Taliban supreme leader Mulla Omar to deal with criminal cases under the Islamic Sharia law. Taliban, who now control almost three-quarter of Afghanistan, have enforced punishments in public under the Islamic law which they say helped deter and curb criminal acts.<ref>[http://www.rawa.org/execute4.htm Taliban publicly execute murderer, amputate two robbers - AFP - August 14, 1998]</ref>}} | ||