I was talking to this girl about the stoning of the woman in Afghanistan and she unfortunately said that Islam is to blame for abuses of women in these societies. I tried to explain to her that it was culture combined with radicalized war mentality but she chose to simply say "lets agree to disagree".
Such shame....
In other news i've come to the conclusion that the idea of devotion to God is supposed to stop conflicts ideally.
Instead of worshipping an ideology or immaterial things the focus is on a universal concept that everything can relate to.
The problem with religions like Islam and this idea is - you devote yourself to Allah, and do it right, and everyone is cool. But become an apostate for example...
Kad5
there were many things wrong that it is irrelavent to the actual practice of Islam in that case, first for such punishment you need 4 witnesses to witness the adultary and those 4 needs to see them actually I mean ACTUALLY doing it - you need to see by your own eyes the P**** inside the v***** - otherwise those 4 witnesses should be all lushes and their credibilty will be lost forever !!
then you need a judge not someone from the street to make this decision, and Afghanistan and Taliban are the worst examples if actually you could consider them examples of Islam.
The problem with this idea is... it doesn't seem to contextually make sense. When will 4 people (4 males by the way, it can't be women - as women can't be witnesses) all be watching people fuck? Did people just... bang out in the open back in the day? And on top of that, witnesses can just gang up on someone they like and make a claim about them doing this that or the other thing, and to top it off, stoning in itself is still a punishment that resides in the book - which is abhorrent. If they didn't want people stoned, don't prescribe it as punishment.
This is another reason why me and a religion can't get along, how can I appreciate any religion when it has shit like that interspersed throughout the teachings?