Diyya
14th March 2011
Diyya or Diyat is monetary compensation paid by a killer to the victim’s family.
In Saudi Arabia, when a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the prescribed blood money rates are as follows[8]:
* 100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
* 50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
* 50,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish man
* 25,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish woman
* 6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
* 3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman.
And that shows you the relative value of different types of person under Muslim law. Women aren’t worth as much as men, Christians and Jews aren’t worth as much as Muslims, and Hindus are hardly worth anything at all. (Discrimination! Call Eric Holder! Oops, sorry, he’s too busy making sure that police have the correct color mix by dumbing down testing requiremenst. Forget I even mentioned it.)
Of course, in the West, not only will the killer be expected to compensate the victim’s family, but he’ll probably get locked up (or snuffed) as well, under the no-doubt-quaint notion that he’s a danger to society and ought to be removed. But that’s apparently not a big concern in the Dar al-Islam.