Non Muslims have been projecting Islam as a barbaric religion because it prescribes tough punishments to those who transgress Allah’s limits. Many of us believers sometimes do show wavering faith, because of this deliberate and constant attack on Islamic laws and value systems how many of us look at the other side of the coin and say that Islam is the only religion (Deen) in the world that cares so much for the people that it punishes those who disturb  the peace of the society in the form of qisas, the physical punishments are lifted up into sphere of morals and faith.
        Can anybody tell me of a country or society where criminals are dealt with leniently and the society is at peace? Would you call the punishments barbaric when you punish one to save all other innocents and law abiding citizens. Wouldn, t it be  barbaric when law abiding citizen loose their limbs, wealth and life because of breakers?
        Before metting out punishments. Islam establishes a system which caters for the basic needs of the people in the form of faith, mental and physical  training, zakat and baitulmal and establishes a judicial system that provide justice for all in the name of Allah. Nobody can escape whether he is a man in authority or of influence or an ordinary citizen. A just, honest and clean society is the goal.
        Don’t just look at the tough punishments, look how caring Islam is (in the law of qisas there is life to you, o men of understang that ye may restrain yourselves) 2-179.