Criminal Complicity Quotes

This is a proverb reflecting a major difference between Arab traditions of justice and that of most Western societies where guilt is not to be vested upon family and friends of a person who commits a crime. While Western jurisprudence recognizes harboring a fugitive as a crime, it is always considered a less heinous crime than the original murderer, robber or whatever. However, in the Bedouin tradition the befriender of the criminal is guilty of the same crime and deserves the same punishment as the criminal. Ironically, Arabs are not the only people with this notion. Sephardic Jews (whose roots and origins are from Spain and the Middle East and who spent many generations in Arab dominated and controlled lands tended to use a different standard from the traditional European Jews with regard to retaliation for acts of terrorism and often used the principle illustrated by this proverb to justify bulldozing the homes of terrorists even after they were dead and attacking associates of leaders of terrorist organizations.

Emperor Hirohito was never indicted at the behest of General MacArthur’s recommendations {605727}. Yet Bernard felt compelled to address the missing defendant’s guilt as did the English Judge {43999}

Although he was personally not involved with the worst of the atrocities, he not only financed most of the German aggression and he accepted and used the gold fillings for the German Bank that were taken from the murdered concentration camp victims. See {633537}.