“Candle Light Vigil in Amman” by Isam Bayazidi
Amongst anger, grief, the detaining of the female accomplice, demonstrations all around the world, new claims released by Al-Qaeda, the week after the bombings has been very busy for the Jo…

Cost-wise, it’s actually more expensive to execute someone in the U.S. than to put them in prison for life. That’s because of all the appeals and the fact most death row inmates spend at least 10-20 years on death row.

Child abusers have a notoriously high rate of recidivism. Some of them should be incarcerated for life in my opinion, maybe in a forensic hospital, but only if they have shown no progress in a treatment program. Some states have tried this but there are constitutional issues involved.

Yes most murderers (although not all) start out with other crimes. In my opinion we should incarcerate people for longer terms for crimes such as assault and then try to rehabilitate them after release.

As for Zarqawi, I don’t know what crimes he committed before and what type of punishment he was eligible for under Jordanian law. I will now say something some might find objectionable, but I will say it anyway: From the pictures I’ve seen of Zarqawi and the info I know from his early life, I believe he probably grew up depressed as well as rebellious. Maybe if someone had reached out to him and offered him the help he needed, he wouldn’t have become a terrorist.

I am sure that the streets of Amman are safer than the streets of New York for this reason. Zarqawi was locked up, then released, then…look what is up now. Cost-wise, isn’t it a huge waste of money to lock someone up for life?

I work with victims of childhood sexual abuse, and with the high rate of recidivism of sex offenders, I sometimes wish serial offenders could receive the death penalty.

Thanks for your thoughts on a hard subject.

No it will not. Jordan constitution and laws are driven from Quran. So no one can claim anything other than she is a criminal that deserves execution.

I also don’t prefer to see her executed. Better I see her rotten in Jail for the rest of her life, until she maybe commits a suicide.

I’m opposed to the death penalty. It doesn’t solve anything and it reduces society to the level of the criminal.

I’m not sure of the history of executing woman in Jordan. But from what I know that there are no restrictions to do so.

Speaking of Jordanians; most if not all would like to see her not only executed, but stoned to death. And before that, maybe to the U.S. method of “Sensory deprivation” while she is in public square.

Iraq is in war against occupation. Let us remember that before U.S. invasion to Iraq, there was no presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq. U.S. failed to find WoMD in Iraq made them so embarrassed they invented an enemy called Al Qaead in Iraq to label all resistance as Al Qaeda. However, Iraq is in such a mess, you can’t make out the difference between terrorism and resistance. So, while Al Qaeda kills innocents in Iraq, U.S. army does too. That makes no difference between the two for Arab and Muslims. Both are terrorists and both kills’ innocents.

No, it does not take a bombing in Amman to realize that Al Qaeda is a terrorist group. In fact Jordan was the first country to sentence this group and put its captured members in jail. However, sympathy of humble Arab and Muslims toward this group was always under the fact that they are fighting a common enemy, USA. You know, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. But when my friend turns on me, then fuck him. Just like the humble Americans whom when asked to finger point Iraq on the map, out of ten, zero could give the correct answer. What does that tell you? Humble Americans don’t know what is going on or what the war in Iraq is for, or where Iraq is. In fact most of them pointed to Australia as the location of Iraq.
Speaking from moderate Arab and Muslims, no, they always condemn Al Qaeda as well occupation, all type of occupation. However, for political and war reasons, the western media always shown that the Arab and Muslim world as supporter to Al Qaeda. No body reads our condemnation and rejection to these terrorist groups.
In fact, such posts by say, blogger, go unnoticed, with the lowest comments, which mean two things. Either our friends are not interested to read the truth, or they read it and in doubt and have no answer to give.

What you saw in Jordan streets is the live fact, that Arabs and Muslims hate terrorist just like you do, but on top of that, they also hate occupation. Occupation of Palestine and Iraq, and any Arab or Muslim country under the threat of USA aggression.

Having said all that, I have to clear out, that hate USA means hate to its policy, politics, unjust, control and aggression of the system, not hate its people. In fact, we are like majority (who was 50% when elected bush) of Americans, who now do not agree to what Bush and his office are doing.

God bless the world.

And yes, the killing of innocent civilians is terrible, it is brutal, it is despicable, but it is really easy to point at what these bastards in Iraq did and pretend that their actions occurred in a vacuum independent of the Jordanian actions and independent of the tacit support of the Jordanian “monarchy” for the war in Iraq.

And as sad as each death of innocent civilians is don’t forget the brutal fact that while about 100 people died in Jordan that well over 100,000 innocent civilians have died in Iraq.