So this really is Islamic justice?

The London Telegraph reports that the Saudis are preparing to behead a 19-year old Sri Lankan maid:

According to the Saudi authorities, Rizana Nafeek admitted strangling the four-month-old boy while feeding him with a bottle.

But Nafeek, whose job was not meant to include child care, has denied making any such admission. She claims the child had begun to choke before losing consciousness in spite of her desperate efforts to clear his airway.

Unless the Saudis reverse the courts decision, or the parents of the victim pardon the girl, Nafeek, as the Telegraph writes, "will have her head cut off by an executioner wielding a sword in front of a crowd of onlookers."

International human rights monitors are, not surprisingly, aghast that this girl is about to be executed. Not only was she just 17 at the time of the alleged crime, but she also didn't have a lawyer to defend her at her trial, and then there is the context. Saudi authorities are notorious for extracting confessions of guilt using torture. (And somehow I suspect the Saudis use harsher techniques than only providing "cheap, unbranded, unscented soap," and soccer balls that "hardly bounce.")

Recently, Saudi Arabia has permitted human rights into the kingdom.

Here is what one such locally-grown advocate had to say about the girl's predicament: "The workers commit big crimes against the Saudis," Suhaila Hammad of Saudi's Society for Human Rights was reported as saying. "Allah, our creator, knows what's good for his people," she said.

"Should we just think of and preserve the rights of the murderer and not think of the rights of others?" she wondered aloud.

So apparently this is Islamic justice - at least Saudi style. No wonder people shudder when they hear that Muslims in places like Britain want to establish sharia or Islamic law in the West.