Oh yes, the strong against the weak.
Steal under the Taliban in Afghanistan and receive your punishment, following yet another single line in the Koran.
A hand removed from one side of the body, a foot from the other.
If you steal and are well connected (financially), you could even pay to get some poor schlub to stand in for your crime and receive the treatment.
I see no strength in these precepts.
I see the endless rules of shari’a and Hadiths and fatwas being issued for every conceivable aspect of human experience (often contradictory, depending on which Ayatollah is doing the issuing) as creations of insecure individuals who want little more than what insecure people have always wanted, to control other people through intimidation and fear.
And Mohammed’s wife (and financial benefactress) Khadija never wore anything resembling that stupid black bug suit.
