Cecile gave permission to pass along her information on this - Scott RE: Guantanamo:
Islamic Law & PoWs: probably the best short account is Mohamed el Zeidy and Ray Murphy, "Islamic Law Prisoners of War and its relationship to International Humanitarian Law," The Italian Yearbook of International Law, (2004), pp. 53-81. You can get open access online through Google Scholar. It's a little dry but it gives a pretty comprehensive account, including a useful summary of the sources and analytical methods of Islamic Law. The base sources, as ever, are the Qur'an and the sunnah -- the 'clear path' of the practices of the Prophet Mohammed as teacher and exemplar (hence 'Sunni' Islam). The specific source is siyar, an 8th C compilation of Muslim international and humanitarian law, which predates European international law and humanitarian law by 900 & 1000 years; and generally, with some exceptions, compares favorably with the Geneva Conventions. Thought this might interest you in view of your ICH forward. Cecile Author of Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step available from Wingspress.com "Repeatedly expecting a sane response from those who are insane is an exercise in madness." - Paraphrasing Einstein We Americans are locked in an asylum for the criminally insane with the criminally insane, and they are armed to the hilt. - Charles Sullivan Let your struggle talk. Iori Mochizuki, Fukushima Diary > > 'It is a sobering thought that better evidence is required to prosecute a > shoplifter than is needed to commence a world war.':Anthony Scrivener QC: > (Times, 5 October 2001, p. 7) > > > "You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction > between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal." -- John De Armond > > > "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- Voltaire - > [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) > >> How eager are you, personally, to kill civilians, whether in the USA, or >> to target them for death in other nations? >> >> I may be wrong about the percentage of crazies I live next to, it >> appears >> it is many many times greater then I thought. It's now understandable to >> me why we can murder people through out the world, and so few in our so >> called Christian Nation, care, as after all, assassinating defenseless >> people is part of our heritage, it's in our TV, our schooling, and our >> Entertainment. We are the best educated murders in millenniums. >> - Scott >> >> Killing Civilians Is a More Popular Than You'd Think >> >> By Jim Naureckas >> Fifty-eight percent of both Protestants and Catholics say it's >> "sometimes >> justified" for the military to "target and kill civilians." And 64 >> percent >> of Mormons! Only Muslims and nonbelievers more often than not say it's >> never OK. >> >> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34832.htm >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
