I hear you. As a British resident, you would probably agree with me that what's happening to Birmingham is pretty scary. However, in the Hebrew Bible, which is part of our scriptures, there are numerous references to stoning adulterous women.
In the era before DNA tests and contraception, a man needed to make sure that his assets were inherited by his own biological issue and not some other man's, (The rate of non-paternity in western countries is a bout 4%). Hence, he had to control his wife's sexuality. That's why marriage was "invented". As men are physically stronger than women, they were able to wield absolute power in the home before there were laws against domestic violence and statutory rape. If the positions were reversed, we as women would have done exactly the same thing. When I grew up in the sixties, if your husband beat or raped you, and you called the police, they would never press charges because it was considered a "private matter". In the movie "Lovelace", that happens and it was the seventies in LA.
Putting the whole sexism thing to one side, I quote: 'and fight them until there is no more fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah (and all and every kind of) worship is for Allah alone.' Another quote 'Al-Jihad (holy fighting) in Allah's cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is giving utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars (on which it stands). By jihad Islam is established, Allah's word is made superior, and his religion is propagated. By abandoning jihad (may Allah protect us from that) Islam is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position: their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or in his innermost heart does not wish to fulfill this duty, dies with the hated qualities of a hypocrite'.
Those are both word for word quotes from the Qur'an.
IIN I'm a liberal and I don't like Islam.
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I hear you. As a British resident, you would probably agree with me that what's happening to Birmingham is pretty scary. However, in the Hebrew Bible, which is part of our scriptures, there are numerous references to stoning adulterous women.
In the era before DNA tests and contraception, a man needed to make sure that his assets were inherited by his own biological issue and not some other man's, (The rate of non-paternity in western countries is a bout 4%). Hence, he had to control his wife's sexuality. That's why marriage was "invented". As men are physically stronger than women, they were able to wield absolute power in the home before there were laws against domestic violence and statutory rape. If the positions were reversed, we as women would have done exactly the same thing. When I grew up in the sixties, if your husband beat or raped you, and you called the police, they would never press charges because it was considered a "private matter". In the movie "Lovelace", that happens and it was the seventies in LA.
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Putting the whole sexism thing to one side, I quote: 'and fight them until there is no more fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah (and all and every kind of) worship is for Allah alone.' Another quote 'Al-Jihad (holy fighting) in Allah's cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is giving utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars (on which it stands). By jihad Islam is established, Allah's word is made superior, and his religion is propagated. By abandoning jihad (may Allah protect us from that) Islam is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position: their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or in his innermost heart does not wish to fulfill this duty, dies with the hated qualities of a hypocrite'.
Those are both word for word quotes from the Qur'an.