Kill a Jew, Pay a Fine..

An outrageous verdict in Yemen...

The man who shot a Jewish teacher to death in Yemen last December was handed a light sentence by a local court on Monday, raising fears that a new wave of anti-Semitism could be on the horizon.

The attack occurred in the central market in the northern Yemen town of Rida, where defendant Abdel al-Abdi demanded that local Jewish teacher Moshe Nahari convert to Islam and then opened fire after apparently receiving a negative reply.

The court ordered al-Abdi, a retired Yemeni air force pilot, to pay the state a $250,000 fine for the killing. The judge also deemed al-Abdi "mentally unstable," and therefore unable to serve any jail time for his crime.