Another "it is not Islam's fault" paper by an Islamic "Human Rights" expert, in the West - of course. Yawn.

About Price's paper.

First, the link to the referenced paper at Amazon doesn't work, at least for me.

Second, without a look at the data and what countries are in the sampling, it is hard to comment on the subject.

However, Schumm at KSU writes:
"Daniel Price in his analysis of Islamic Political Culture and Human Rights concluded that "... government rooted in Islam does not facilitate the abuse of human rights." A re-analysis of his data for 23 Islamic governments demonstrates otherwise. There is a significant trend (p<.03), despite the low statistical power available in only 23 cases, for an inverted quadratic relationship between Islamic Political Culture and Human Rights. Among the nations scoring low on Islamic Political Culture, the correlation between the two variables is -.01 (ns); among those scoring high on Islamic Political Culture, the correlation shifts to -.78 (p<.02). At lower scores for Islamic Political Culture, there may indeed be little relationship between Political Culture and Human Rights; however, at higher scores there appears to be a significant relationship between increasing Islamic Political Culture and a decline in Human Rights."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14765607&dopt=Abstract

So, the more Islam, the less Human Rights. Once again, as usual, as always, Muslims are in denial about their faith. Where you find Islam, you find descrimination and oppression.

The fact is that Islamic political culture is less a determining factor in human rights practices than Islamic religious beliefs, which assign a lesser value to Muslim women, and very little value at all to non-Muslims.

Kactuz

Simply put, Universal law encompass all human rights regardless of any other earthly thoughts. In this world we have International Human rights laws, which often reflect the best of the Universal laws yet get diuluted by corrpution and disrespect.Universal law respect all life and recognize that killing with intent is wrong. Harming another with intent is wrong.