End of your postulate 3 above, Stringsinger, brings right back to my OP point imo. Corporal & capital punishment are much part of the rules & usages of any Sharia regime like Saudi or N Nigeria. They are denounced by those who subscribe to your above 9. But these are also the very people liable to leap to the defence, if they are attacked, of regimes such as those I have named above. with cries of 'racism', it seems to me.

There is the paradox as I perceive it.

I simply introduced it, and reiterate it, as an observation & an implied question.

It does not appear to me to have been satisfactorily answered.

And don't bother about 'all about oil' ~~ there is none in N Nigeria...

~M~