If you read the first post you see "court" mentioned there. The topic middle eastern "justice" sounds just right. Yemen is IN middle-east and court delivers justice you know? So its not totally wrong atleast not worth of serious moral debate.
Perhaps not totally wrong, but wrong enough that it needs to be set right before a real discussion can take place. Seriously, consider the counter-example I provided above: if I posted a thread titled "American Religion," and in it I linked to the story about the wacky cult Magerette referenced, what do you reckon the odds are that a genuine discussion about the place of religion in American culture and society would take place?
Not too big, I'd bet -- it would rightly get slammed as a gratuitous expression of ignorant anti-Americanism.
So next time use the right topic "Isolated case of justice in one single yemen court" that way we can be sure noone gets offended.
Or, y'know, actually post a thought or two about justice in the Middle East in general, rather than simply demonstrating your ignorance by linking to a shock story and generalizing the hell out of it in the subject line.
This is an area that interests me too, a great deal, which is precisely why I get so annoyed at seeing it treated this way. Here are a few random topics that I think might be worth discussing around the bigger one:
* Some Middle Eastern countries have different civil laws for different sects (religions). So, for example, Muslim men are allowed four wives, and Catholics marry for life (no divorce allowed, only annulment, and that only in very exceptional circumstances).
* Yemen has a "free market" legal system, with no written laws. Anyone can start dispensing justice. If he gains a reputation for good judgment, people will start coming to him to resolve their disputes.
* There's a major, mostly Turkish-led, effort underway to reform Islamic jurisprudence and make it (more) compatible with modern societies, without compromising the core values of the religion. Similar efforts have been attempted before -- the single most successful one happened about a thousand years ago, which gave us the shari'a. (Which was, incidentally, incredibly progressive at a time when, for example, monarchs and princes were generally regarded as untouchable and above the law.) An abortive effort similar in many ways to the current one was the so-called Jadeed movement in Central Asia in the early 20th century. From an outsider's POV, what would you like to see happening in this effort? What do you think are the odds of it succeeding better than Jadeedism?