it seems to me that the acquittal was the correct decision; armed or not, if the person who was killed was running after the killer with clear intent to harm him, then the killer had every right to defend himself with deadly force.
Even when the shooter was armed (+ with a friend) and the victim was unarmed and alone?
When I was growing up there were some teenage boy in my school who used to blow up the postbox of a grumpy old neighbourhood man (I have no idea if he wad grumpy before or after they started doing this). And everytime he used to come running after them and they would run away as fast as they could. I guess by this line of thinking, if one of them had a gun, they could get away with shooting him because he had "clear intent to harm".
You could do the same exercise with Islam 1940 and find that the biggest islamic empire decriminalized homosexuality (the Ottomans in 1858), while most of Europe still had laws penalizing sodomy until after WW2. Even Sweden didnt decriminalize sodomy until 1944.
You could look at the treatment of jews in the islamic world, and conclude that it was far more tolerant than the treatment of jews in most of Europe and Russia. Majority muslim Albania was the only country in Europe to come out of WW2 with a higher jewish population than before the war.
Basically, just as Islam 1940 could undergo huge changes, so can Islam 2022.
And without going into the whole can of worms that is colonialism (and I personally dont think religion or culture played a role here, as others would have done the same if they had the ability), one could look at a snapshot of Europe and her colonies in the first half of the 20th century and conclude that christianity is irredeemably violent.
I think you´re wildly exagerating how often people die from falls. Im a medical doctor and have worked many yours in emergency rooms where people came in after all kinds of falls. Very rarely did someone actually die from a fall. The only ones I remember where people who fell from the top of staircases. Freak accidents obviously happen, but would be a bit strange to use to make legal precedent.
By the same logic you could say that the old man that the two young men where harassing could have died from a heart attach in trying to get away from them (the were high on methampethamine and armed).
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