Posted on 09/08/2010 6:37:37 AM PDT by MarianoApologeticus
In this and the following segments we will consider: the Qur′an, atheists and political activists and the Pope, Christianity and Jesus...
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani...has been subjected to 99 lashes with a whip, administered in the presence of one of her two children. This appears to be a minus one version of the Qur′ans commandment in Surah 24:2,
"The woman and the man guilty of illegal sexual intercourse, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment."
However, regardless of adultery, or illegal sexual intercourse, Muslim men are commanded to beat their wives in Surah 4:3; see an Albuquerque website for info: Muhammad and Jesus, part 4 of 10 Regarding Wives and Does Allah Allow Muslim Men to Beat their Wives in Islam's Qur'an?
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Islam doesn’t belong here.
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