ISLAM: Crime or Punishment?
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Is Islamic law a deterrent? The Saudis think so, and point to their crime rate, one of the lowest in the world. But recently an influx of low-income foreign workers—most of them Muslim—has caused an upsurge in crime, suggesting that knowing the laws of the Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia—minus one hand.
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