moses wrote on Jul 30
th, 2014 at 6:27pm:
qur'an 5.33 The punishment of those who wage war against allah and his messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
I suppose the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides is not mutilation, according to muslims and their fawning, bootlicking, spineless apologists?
Quote:Last execution of a [Christian] heretic
The last case of an execution by the Catholic Church was that of the schoolmaster Cayetano Ripoll, accused of deism by the waning Spanish Inquisition and hanged to death 26 July 1826 in Valencia after a two-year trial.[14] Eight years later in 1834, Spain, the last remaining government to still be providing the Catholic Church with the right to pronounce and effect capital punishment, formally withdrew that right from the Church. The era of such absolute Church authority had lasted some 1,449 years, from 385 AD through to 1834 of the 19th century. The number of people executed as heretics as sentenced by various church authorities is not known; however it most certainly numbers into the several thousands. Coincidentally, the first heretic executed had been a Spaniard Priscillian, the most notorious organization known for the persecution of heretics had been based in Spain, the Spanish Inquisition, and the last heretic executed had been a Spaniard Cayetano Ripoll. Thus, the era of the execution of heretics by the Catholic Church (or by any other major Christian denomination) had finally come to an end.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_in_Christianity]
An interesting article on Heresy in Christianity in the 20th century too long to quote. A very large number of trials and accusations occurred...