Torture

[1nemansquad]

i gotta write a paper and about how torturing is wrong. and this class-mate of mine asked me this question, would there ever be a way you wouldn't torture someone even if they had a love one and the only way to get it back is to torture? could there be another way?

so it got me the thinking and thought i would ask you folk

[The Arabman]

Personally, no, I wouldn't torture that someone. If he has valuable information that concerns me, torturing him cannot be the only way to get it out of him. There are other methods to obtain such information, like injecting the person with a truth drug (truth serum). I would like to know what our sheikhs and ulemas have said about this issue; if anyone comes across a link or two, please post it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum

[michael_ital]

The only thing that comes to mind is to hold one of their loved ones hostage. But then that would make you no better than him, though it would avoid the use of torture.

[Mowhawk]

1nemansquad

Most humans don’t have the intention of torturing others, but if it begets the freedom of a loved one, that is totally a different ball of game.

Check out Allen Dershowitz who was one of the lawyers that defended O.J Simpson, and a professor of Law at Harvard advocating torture to extract information in cases involving “terrorism” like the captives in Guantanamo Bay. You can read all his torture reasoning in a pro-Israeli book called “Why terrorism Works”, and that is why he got now the tag, 'professor of torture'. It is against International Law to torture, what do you think? Here below is an interview with him and a gentleman who is against the concept of torture.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/03/cnna.Dershowitz/

[Suhaylah]

[quote="The Arabman"]There are other methods to obtain such information, like injecting the person with a truth drug (truth serum). I would like to know what our sheikhs and ulemas have said about this issue; if anyone comes across a link or two, please post it here.[/quote]


Many believe that administering a truth serum falls within the the UN's charter.....Others say it does NOT.....DOES it?

[1nemansquad]

thanks guys, you been a big help really

[Gacalisa]

torture in plain sense in unlawful, and inhumane. so there are always other ways in going about solving that kind of a problem, such as using words, language is far more powerful than any physical act.

by the way i am sure you guys heard that the US legalized torture, allowing any one who is accused of terrorism to be tortured until he admits to the accusation. but how can one to say they did it if his life is in stake. man, the US is upside down, well Bush anywayz.

peace.