"They won't introduce Islamic punishments and they are not going to beat people who don't pray."

The students replied that they needed help from Western intellectuals like me to get rid of Islamic punishments.

Liberals fear "Islamic punishments for things like theft, adultery, and blasphemy are not far behind".

Many apply Islamic punishments only to Muslims.

Ali Mazrui asserts that "most Muslim countries do not use traditional classical Islamic punishments".

Traditional Islamic punishments were imposed for theft, adultery, homicide, and other crimes.

These included chopping off hands for theft, the traditional Islamic punishment, and an automatic death sentence for particularly violent robberies or any kind of murder.

There were also widespread objections to the Islamic punishment by international human rights organizations and army doctors who were supposed to amputate the hands.

Islamic punishments seem awful to Christians, but long prison sentences are no delight.