Re: An article my friend wrote...
Reply #1 - December 06, 2008, 06:54 PM
PART 2
A few interesting quotes from the ?Holy Book?
1) Wife beating
Quran 4:34: Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in their sleeping places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
15 IN SURA 38: "Thy wife; - on whom he had sworn that he would inflict an hundred blows, because she had absented herself from him when in need of her assistance, or for her words (Job ii.9). The oath was kept, we are told, by his giving her one blow with a rod of a hundred
2) Sex with slaves
Quran gives men right to have sex with female slaves and their allotted four wives: "It is not permitted thee to take other wives hereafter, nor to change they present wives for other women, though their beauty charm thee, except slaves whom thy right hand shall possess. And God watcheth all things." Sura 33:52
3) Racism
"The master does not have the right to force the female slave to wed to an ugly black slave if she is beautiful and agile unless in case of utmost necessity" (refer to Ibn Hazm, Vol. 6, Part 9, p. 469).
"O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people." Sura (5:51) -
Its general mistrust of Jews (it also says not to invite them to your house nor befriend them, but I can?t find the quote that I read a while ago in the Quran); however this quote probably illustrates the point
?As you can clearly see the Jews are cursed, till the end of time, Allah tried to help them?:Surah V Ayat 70
Also if they are cursed then it is certainly not their fault. Why not lift the curse, instead of treating them as inferior human beings, and also punishing them in the after-life? Why should people be judged and punished on the actions of their forefathers, and not on those actions of themselves?
4) Rape
And forbidden to you are wedded wives of other people except those who have fallen in your hands (as prisoners of war) . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 319). (See also Suras 4:3 and 33:50)
The hadith shows that Muslims jihadists actually have sex with the captured women, whether or not they are married. In the following passage, Khumus is one-fifth of the spoils of war. Ali, Muhammad?s cousin and son-in-law, just finished a relaxing bath. Why?
The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and . . . Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus).
Prophet?s response to the person who hated Ali for this sexual act? Do you hate Ali for this? . . . Don?t hate him, for he deserves more than that from [the] Khumus. (Bukhari)
6) Violence
The Quran is filled with many threats thrown at non-believers but the Quran says that it is Allah who causes people to believe or not believe
(see "He whom God guideth is the guided, and they whom he misleadeth shall be the lost." Sura 7:177
"No soul can believe but by the permission of God: and he shall lay his wrath on those who will not understand." - Sura 10:100 "And they who believe not say, 'Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord ...' SAY: God truly will mislead whom he will; and He will guide to Himself him who turneth to Him,? Sura 13:27
"Had God pleased, He could have made you one people: but He causeth whom He will to err, and whom He will He guideth: and ye shall assuredly be called to account for your doings." Sura 16:95 )
So, if God can cause people to not believe, then why would he punish them when they didn?t?
"And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is Gracious, Merciful." Sura 9:5
This is another quote from the scriptures of what is described as a peaceful religion.
"Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God, or in the last day, and who forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled." Sura 9:29
"Yet if they turn to God and observe prayer, and pay the impost, then are they your brethren in religion. We make clear our signs to those who understand."
"But if, after alliance made, they break their oaths and revile your religion, then do battle with the ring-leaders of infidelity - for no oaths are binding with them - that they may desist." Sura 9:11-12
These quotes was used to justify the September 11, 2001 attacks.
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
-George Dennison Prentice
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