Muslim Victim Asks Texas to Stop Execution of Man Who Shot Him

[SandEagle]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/18/38231.htm

"Bhuiyan , a U.S . citizen whose family is from Bangladesh, says he "feels this
way because his parents raised him with the religious principle that he is best who can forgive easily. He believes, as a Muslim, that human life is precious and that no one has the right to take another's life."

a grand gesture and a great mantra to live by: he is best who can forgive easily. i forgive you all.

 

[Tristicus]

Um....great, he can ask what he wants. But tell him he can pay for his prison sentence exclusively.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Um....great, he can ask what he wants. But tell him he can pay for his prison sentence exclusively.

You might want to look up the costs related to a person sentences to death vs one sentenced to life before making those type of statements.

 

[JSt0rm]

You might want to look up the costs related to a person sentences to death vs one sentenced to life before making those type of statements.

He is from NC. In his gut h knows killin is cheap and prison is like welfare.

 

[Brigandier]

The man the OP describes is a good man, and people should strive to be like him.

I hope the state grants clemency in this case, a victim that's willing to forgive should be taken into account for a criminals punishment.

I wish the American justice system would lean more to mediation in conflicts.

 

[The Green Bean]

Under Islamic law, the victim has no jurisdiction over a perpetrator once the case has been raised to the court. The man should be executed not for shooting a particular person, but for shooting anyone.

 

[her209]

The man is being executed for killing two other people, not for shooting the Muslim guy.

 

[a777pilot]

The man the OP describes is a good man, and people should strive to be like him.

I hope the state grants clemency in this case, a victim that's willing to forgive should be taken into account for a criminals punishment.

I wish the American justice system would lean more to mediation in conflicts.

Great idea. Let's ask the two people this murder actually killed what they think ought to happen to him.

Idiots. He is not being executed for shooting one man in the eye but for the murder of two human beings. Good Lord, people, pay attention.

 

[monovillage]

The article didn't even contain the names of the guys two other murder victims, maybe they can apply for mediation also....... ooops too bad they're dead!

 

[PrinceofWands]

You might want to look up the costs related to a person sentences to death vs one sentenced to life before making those type of statements.

But those costs aren't real. I absolutely guarantee you that I can execute someone for under $50. Box of ammo, gun rental, 1 hour of pay @ $10/hr. Done. Anything beyond that is a made up expense.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i think the shooter must have come to this forum and been brainwashed into shooting someone in the face.

 

[Throckmorton]

It doesn't matter whether the victim wants the perpetrator executed. Execution is state murder either way.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

The families of the two other victims have to be willing to forgive the man too even in a country which would allow this.

 

[ichy]

"Turn the other cheek" is a slave's mentality.

BTW, it would be nice if some news outlets would interview the loved ones of the two murder victims. They might be a lot less forgiving...

Re: the costs, in this case the appeals process has already been paid for. Going through with the execution at this point would cost next to nothing.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

what a horrible idea.

 

[MotF Bane]

Under Islamic law, the victim has no jurisdiction over a perpetrator once the case has been raised to the court. The man should be executed not for shooting a particular person, but for shooting anyone.

Islamic law is completely irrelevant.

 

[Macamus Prime]

This a Muslim man asking for peace and issuing forgiveness. Instead, you all dismiss this very clear point and proceed with a pissing contest.

Also, a man in Texas, shooting local Muslims, for something that happened miles away, to his sister,... by people from a part of the world different from this Bangladesh man. Aaaaand, you are shitting all over the Bangladesh man.

Bhuiyan says he seeks legal relief because he "also seeks solace for the widows and children of murder victims Vasudev Patel and Waqar Hasan, who are also victims in this tragedy, and who support plaintiff in his efforts to seek reconciliation.

So, the other two victim's suviving family support Bhuiyan's actions. And, still, you do not praise the main point; a Muslim seeking peace and issuing forgiveness.

Thanks, you just clarified you are xenophobic war mongering racists. You want nothing more than death. And, congrats - you are no better, in fact WORSE, than the Islamic extremists and fundamentalists. If you aren't waving a bible while cheering the death of Arabs and Muslims, you are waving a financial statement of the profit performance for various merchants of death.

/spit

 

[kage69]

Under Islamic law, the victim has no jurisdiction over a perpetrator once the case has been raised to the court. The man should be executed not for shooting a particular person, but for shooting anyone.

Funny, victims and their families in Saudi Arabia are afforded the right to pardon their transgressors before an execution is to take place. This happens more often than not. But then it's Saudi Arabia, what they hell do they know about Islamic Law...


This man is "walking the walk" as far as his religious convictions are concerned and I can respect that even if I don't subscribe to those convictions myself. It be nice if more religious types could do the same instead of using their "faith" more as a cultural and national identity, rife with hypocrisy and dogma.

I'm guessing this will be downplayed, ridiculed or outright rejected by many due to him being a muslim.

 

[SlowSpyder]

This a Muslim man asking for peace and issuing forgiveness. Instead, you all dismiss this very clear point and proceed with a pissing contest.

Also, a man in Texas, shooting local Muslims, for something that happened miles away, to his sister,... by people from a part of the world different from this Bangladesh man. Aaaaand, you are shitting all over the Bangladesh man.



So, the other two victim's suviving family support Bhuiyan's actions. And, still, you do not praise the main point; a Muslim seeking peace and issuing forgiveness.

Thanks, you just clarified you are xenophobic war mongering racists. You want nothing more than death. And, congrats - you are no better, in fact WORSE, than the Islamic extremists and fundamentalists. If you aren't waving a bible while cheering the death of Arabs and Muslims, you are waving a financial statement of the profit performance for various merchants of death.

/spit

Most here are completely for executing a white supremacist who killed people that appeared to be of Middle Eastern decent, just because they were of that ethnicity. Yea, totally xenophobic and racist on our part. You completely nailed it yet again.

 

[Macamus Prime]

I'm guessing this will be downplayed, ridiculed or outright rejected by many due to him being a muslim.

It already is. Especially on these forums. Most are pretty clear, they hate Muslims. And, it based on the actions of a few.

They should be hating on Islamic extremists and fundamentalists. But, that means they have to think before they hate. And, thinking would deprive them of hating on the innocent.

Which, makes me realize, they just don't like "brown" people.

 

[xj0hnx]

Most here are completely for executing a white supremacist who killed people that appeared to be of Middle Eastern decent, just because they were of that ethnicity. Yea, totally xenophobic and racist on our part. You completely nailed it yet again.

Surely you don't expect him to look at context when he can just scream "racist", and "Xenophobe" to attack people he doesn't agree with?

 

[monovillage]

This a Muslim man asking for peace and issuing forgiveness. Instead, you all dismiss this very clear point and proceed with a pissing contest.

Also, a man in Texas, shooting local Muslims, for something that happened miles away, to his sister,... by people from a part of the world different from this Bangladesh man. Aaaaand, you are shitting all over the Bangladesh man.



So, the other two victim's suviving family support Bhuiyan's actions. And, still, you do not praise the main point; a Muslim seeking peace and issuing forgiveness.

Thanks, you just clarified you are xenophobic war mongering racists. You want nothing more than death. And, congrats - you are no better, in fact WORSE, than the Islamic extremists and fundamentalists. If you aren't waving a bible while cheering the death of Arabs and Muslims, you are waving a financial statement of the profit performance for various merchants of death.

/spit

You're an idiot. You seem to think that the religious convictions of one of the victims involved in this case should be the overriding concern about what the punishment is. I'd like to see you justify why the punishment should be different depending if victims forgive the crime or not.

 

[Thump553]

Under Islamic law, the victim has no jurisdiction over a perpetrator once the case has been raised to the court. The man should be executed not for shooting a particular person, but for shooting anyone.

I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think sharia law is the controlling law in Texas.

This issue comes up quite often in jurisdictions that have the death penalty. Perhaps over simplified, the victim's desire for clemency can mean a great deal before trial and sentencing, very little thereafter.

 

[BoberFett]

Durka durka, Muhammed Jihad, durka durka.

Huh?

 

[soulcougher73]

This a Muslim man asking for peace and issuing forgiveness. Instead, you all dismiss this very clear point and proceed with a pissing contest.

Also, a man in Texas, shooting local Muslims, for something that happened miles away, to his sister,... by people from a part of the world different from this Bangladesh man. Aaaaand, you are shitting all over the Bangladesh man.



So, the other two victim's suviving family support Bhuiyan's actions. And, still, you do not praise the main point; a Muslim seeking peace and issuing forgiveness.

Thanks, you just clarified you are xenophobic war mongering racists. You want nothing more than death. And, congrats - you are no better, in fact WORSE, than the Islamic extremists and fundamentalists. If you aren't waving a bible while cheering the death of Arabs and Muslims, you are waving a financial statement of the profit performance for various merchants of death.

/spit

That is nice if he wants to forgive the man. But the law has spoken and he shall be put to death regardless of being forgiven or not. This man is not the law.