s, human rights violations also comprise punishments for crimes not generally recognized in the West, or punishments that seem out of proportion to the punishments which Western court systems would typically impose for similar crimes. In the eyes of Western public opinion, such conduct is apt to be regarded as a "human rights" violation regardless of how carefully procedural standards were followed, or how broadly the community in which the act occured agreed that the act was a crime and deserving of the punishment given.
The example which most clearly demonstrates the Western view of Islamic law and justice as inherently in violation of "human rights" is the Qur'anic punishment of adultery, which is death by stoning. In many Western eyes, this is a "medieval" punishment for behavior which is the frequent subject of comedies in the Western mass media. It makes no difference, in Western eyes, that by Islamic standards this crime can only be proven by the eyewitness testimony of four adult male witnesses, or by the willing c
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