rape = sodomy. What is it with the religion of Islam and sodomy? Or is it the culture? Or both?

No clue.
“What is it with the religion of Islam and sodomy?”
I’m not sure... but one could ask what ‘is it’ with the religion of Islam when their laws still prescribe cutting peoples limbs off, stoning them to death, and other punishments for certain crimes... punishments that most civilized people consider improper in an enlightened society?
It would not be unreasonable to conclude that Islam — on the whole — is still stuck in the middle ages.
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