Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: Sultan
Homosexuality is an unnatural act. That is taught in all the Abrahamic religions. Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed by God. If you want to call God a racist and a discriminatory person, that is your choice. Current man-made laws also subscribe to preventing homosexuality. Homosexual marriages are NOT allowed in the United States.
Yes, your sky daddy would be discriminating against homosexuals by the very definition. In addition, man-made laws that are discriminating against homosexuals such as in the US are wrong and barbaric.
Adultery is a major crime by religion, and even by man-made laws. A person committing adultery is bound to lose significantly in terms of monetary wealth by the US man-made laws. The offense is seen at quite a much bigger scale by Islamic law, and if proven with the eyewitness testimony of 4 adults, is punishable by death. Since the crime carries capital punishment, the bar for proving it in court is kept impossibly high. Hence such a punishment is hardly, if ever, carried out. The punishment is prescribed more to exemplify how disliked this act is.
How humane - death. The death penalty is a barbaric act.
Non-Muslims in an Islamic state have certain rights that Muslims do not. Similarly, Muslims have rights that non-Muslims do not, in the same way man-made laws in the US differentiate between citizens and non-citizens. Non-citizens cannot be part of the US army, nor have they the right to vote. Islam prescribes equal but different set of rights for Muslims and non-Muslims in an Islamic state so that Islam is not forcibly imposed on them. EQUAL BUT DIFFERENT.
'equal but different' is not equal. And Islamic Law is in no way 'equal' to non-people of the book. In addition, discrimination through religion is not the same as citizens and non-citizens. What next, discriminating against race is fine now?
No, strict Islamic Law discriminates heavily and more extreme against non-Muslims and non-People of the Book and homosexuals. This is a barbaric act that only racists and bigots would support.
In addition, it is essentially a slave system, holding people to their religion and takes them to death if they decide to leave.
There are NO laws in Islam supportive of paedophilia. This is a charge levelled many times based on the Prophet (S.A) marriage to Hazrat Aisha (R.A). Marriage is between two consenting adults, and while man-made laws subscribe to a certain age to signify an adult, there is no such generalized prescription in Islam. A person is allowed to enter into marriage if he/she is post-puberty and metally mature to understand marriage. There is no test to determine if a male or a female is mentally mature. [/b]
I don't think that anyone has really said that Islamic Law supports pedophilia - just that some members of this forum have supported certain instances of a 9 year old child having sex with an old man in today's time. These people are sick and it's not a surprise that these very same people are racists and bigots.
Strict Islamic Law may have made sense when people were rolling around in the mud, but in today's time it results in brainless sheep that are racists, bigots, and backwards.