[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: Giving the finger

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Giving the finger
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1155580023.shtml


   Four young men broke into an apartment in South Minneapolis last week,
   only to be wounded and chased away by an intended victim wielding a
   [1]samurai sword. Three of the attempted robbers have been arrested:
   Hossem Chalbi, Iman Ahmed Abdelhakim and Mohammed Khalil. I don't want
   to jump to conclusions, but I'm guessing that these youths aren't
   Amish.
   Chalbi was slashed on the arm and Khalil was slashed on the abdomen
   and also lost a finger. Assuming Khalil isn't a wayward Amish who has
   forsaken his religion of peace, but is perhaps a follower of the
   Islamic law of Sharia, then he got off relatively easy: the Sharia
   penalty for theft calls for amputation of the whole hand.
   (Interesting but unrelated sidenote: the attempted robbery took place
   in the 3100 block of Lyndale Avenue S. I used to live just two blocks
   away, in the 3100 block of Harriet Avenue S. I didn't have a samurai
   sword, but I did keep an old bayonet around the house.)

References

   1. http://www.startribune.com/467/story/609161.html