Islamic Sharia Laws = lowest crime rates in the world?

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Crime Statistics > Rapes (per capita) (most recent) by country
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Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 South Africa: 1.19538 per 1,000 people
#2 Seychelles: 0.788294 per 1,000 people
#3 Australia: 0.777999 per 1,000 people
#4 Montserrat: 0.749384 per 1,000 people
#5 Canada: 0.733089 per 1,000 people
#6 Jamaica: 0.476608 per 1,000 people
#7 Zimbabwe: 0.457775 per 1,000 people
#8 Dominica: 0.34768 per 1,000 people
#9 United States: 0.301318 per 1,000 people
#10 Iceland: 0.246009 per 1,000 people
#11 Papua New Guinea: 0.233544 per 1,000 people
#12 New Zealand: 0.213383 per 1,000 people
#13 United Kingdom: 0.142172 per 1,000 people
#14 Spain: 0.140403 per 1,000 people
#15 France: 0.139442 per 1,000 people
#16 Korea, South: 0.12621 per 1,000 people
#17 Mexico: 0.122981 per 1,000 people
#18 Norway: 0.120836 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica: 0.118277 per 1,000 people
#20 Venezuela: 0.115507 per 1,000 people
#21 Finland: 0.110856 per 1,000 people
#22 Netherlands: 0.100445 per 1,000 people
#23 Denmark: 0.0914948 per 1,000 people
#24 Germany: 0.0909731 per 1,000 people
#25 Bulgaria: 0.0795973 per 1,000 people
#26 Chile: 0.0782179 per 1,000 people
#27 Thailand: 0.0626305 per 1,000 people
#28 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0623785 per 1,000 people
#29 Poland: 0.062218 per 1,000 people
#30 Sri Lanka: 0.0599053 per 1,000 people
#31 Hungary: 0.0588588 per 1,000 people
#32 Estonia: 0.0547637 per 1,000 people
#33 Ireland: 0.0542829 per 1,000 people
#34 Switzerland: 0.0539458 per 1,000 people
#35 Belarus: 0.0514563 per 1,000 people
#36 Uruguay: 0.0512295 per 1,000 people
#37 Lithuania: 0.0508757 per 1,000 people
#38 Malaysia: 0.0505156 per 1,000 people
#39 Romania: 0.0497089 per 1,000 people
#40 Czech Republic: 0.0488234 per 1,000 people
#41 Russia: 0.0486543 per 1,000 people
#42 Latvia: 0.0454148 per 1,000 people
#43 Moldova: 0.0448934 per 1,000 people
#44 Colombia: 0.0433254 per 1,000 people
#45 Slovenia: 0.0427648 per 1,000 people
#46 Italy: 0.0402045 per 1,000 people
#47 Portugal: 0.0364376 per 1,000 people
#48 Tunisia: 0.0331514 per 1,000 people
#49 Zambia: 0.0266383 per 1,000 people
#50 Ukraine: 0.0244909 per 1,000 people
#51 Slovakia: 0.0237525 per 1,000 people
#52 Mauritius: 0.0219334 per 1,000 people
#53 Turkey: 0.0180876 per 1,000 people
#54 Japan: 0.017737 per 1,000 people
#55 Hong Kong: 0.0150746 per 1,000 people
#56 India: 0.0143187 per 1,000 people
#57 Qatar: 0.0139042 per 1,000 people
#58 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0132029 per 1,000 people
#59 Greece: 0.0106862 per 1,000 people
#60 Georgia: 0.0100492 per 1,000 people
#61 Armenia: 0.00938652 per 1,000 people
#62 Indonesia: 0.00567003 per 1,000 people
#63 Yemen: 0.0038597 per 1,000 people
#64 Azerbaijan: 0.00379171 per 1,000 people
#65 Saudi Arabia: 0.00329321 per 1,000 people
Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita

WOMEN ARE ALL COVERED UP, NO ALCHOHOLS, DO YOU NEED TO GIVE MORE EXCUSES? WHO WANTS TO RAPE A COVERED NINJA?

NO VICES, NO NIGHTCLUBS,

To ANSWERSVI
But they are still not the lowest!

Answer 1

Thank you for the data, you put across a very good point. However the possibility of rapes not being reported cannot be ruled out and must have affected these stats to some degree, but to use that as a sole excuse for such a stark difference in rates of crime would be foolish and acceptable to those content with fooling themselves. To Moonshine Jhonny a woman who is raped is not to be killed in Islam by any strech of the imagination however a woman who falsely accuses a man of raping her or a man who falsely accuses a woman of having sex outside marriage are to be punished, dont mix up the facts please.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It's not surprising, the more brutal the punishment the less likely crime is to be commited. Look at Singapore for an example of that, caning is still used. For an extreme example look at cows, one of them steps out of line and they become next week's steak, as happened to a cow that had a misunderstanding about who's field he was in and mauled my grandfather. There will always need to be a balance between being a cow and anarchy until we reach the time that humans naturally choose right over wrong and hence eliminating the need for society to punish them. If however we push to quickly for anarchy we will lose civilisation and if we push to much for being cows we will lose our ability to grow mentally. It is a marvelous problem that will probably never have a definite answer until the end comes.

Answer 4

Maybe or maybe not. The questions like many have said it already: who makes these statistics, what are their purposes and are they reliable?
If a country's laws doesn't recognize certain forms of crime as crime it won't be reported, just as that. This reminds me of Zimbabwe where Mugabe consistently stated that AIDS did not exist in his country. So no AIDS cases in the statistics of his country!

Edit:
Greece, Georgia and Armenia are "Christian" countries without Sharia laws scoring very low in crime. How do you explain this?

Answer 5

Crime rates have nothing to do with an
expected punishment. Extensive research
has shown that criminals hardly ever think
about a crime in this context. The best
example for this is US vs. Europe. The
U.S. has obscenely high crime rates
compared to nearly all of the European
countries. We have capital punishment.
They do not. And those numbers are
not always a good basis for this. Some
countries just don't report crimes like
rape. This can be because it's not considered
a crime at all (in a marriage for example) or
because it's supposed to be embarrassing.
For example a lot of Muslim countries try
to throw a blanket over homosexual rape
as it is not supposed to exist at all.

Answer 6

well you have to take into account the reporting and enforcement of rapes. most experts would agree that in ALL countries the amount of rapes reported is very different from the amount that actually occur. And in many countries, the amount that are actually prosecuted is different as well. You might note that women's rights are much stronger in the countries at the top of the list. This would indicate that the police take reports more seriously, thus more prosecution.

Answer 7

Is that the reason that the Crusaders had to fight to stop the raiding of trade caravans, theft of their merchandise, murder of their guards and workers...

(Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. The Crusades had NOTHING to do with religion... FOLLOW THE MONEY. Look who paid the expenses and why they did it. The answer: European MERCHANTS who were tired of having to pay extortion (protection money) so caravans bringing merchandise to them from the East would not be raided, people kidnapped or killed, and goods stolen.)

Sounds like they only cared if the victim was one of their own...

Answer 8

Of course!! If a woman gets raped, she is beaten and possibly hung, therefore she most often will not report it. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_justice;_ylt=AheOWFYbV0O5I1XmeriskmOs0NUE.
If other countries were as harsh against the person being raped, their ratios would be just as small or smaller. You and you fellow Muslims who admire the Sharia Law have nothing to bragg about here. Wow, you folks have some weird logic!!!

Answer 9

Death sentences for everything tends to eradicate crime. I think its a bit much to die for jaywalking, but what do I know?

Answer 10

perhaps, and I'm just making a wild guess here, this only applies to reported crimes.