What is Islam??????????????

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<i>Originally posted by SisterJennifer </i><b></b>

You did not post which verse you are wondering about, but you did post the concept.  Let me ask you a question:  When you engage in intercourse do you often have an audience on hand to view the performance?

Not often, no.

<i>Originally posted by SisterJennifer </i>  I think you probably don't.  The reason I ask is that there must be witnesses (at least 4, I believe) for the sentence of stoning to death to be carried out.  This does not mean only the women, it includes the man as well.  Some people look to how certain individuals or governments carry out their punishments and assume this is what Islam tells them to do.  It seems to me, that this is a punishment that would be difficult to recieve because of the guidelines laid out in the Quran, but even if we were to escape the punishment in this life, will God turn a blind eye to it on the Day of Judgement?  It is not man who needs to be feared, but the creator to whom we all return.

I do not care if you are a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.  That rule is the same for all of us, by both the Quran and the Bible.  

Maybe someone else here has something to add on this topic.

On another note:  I am a 28 year old women who covers, and I can tell you that I can be a Muslim and be 'modern' at the same time.  Islam is a religion for all times and all peoples.

These are special just for you

When looking at Islam (not Muslims) I look at the etxremities and its brutality and lack of compassion. Something it does have in common with a lot of religions is an obsession that sex is a crime against god (and has some very severe consequences in Islam), being homosexual is an affront to god etc. Don't want to go into that right now.

Anyway, I wasn't talking about rape and I wasn't talking about the justice system. What I was talking about was the act of brutality when such a heinous crime as having sex out of marriage or if someone commits adultery. The reason that this caught my attention was because of a case going on in Nigeria where a woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock and or adultery. The appeal will be heard 25th Spetember I believe. This sentence is being carrried out according to strict Islamic sharia law and I have to say, this troubles me.

There was a website Taliban Online where I was discussing with contributers there (admin banned me) and one of them actually posted a video clip of a stoning. I did not view and the moderator removed it. It seemed that stoning was the way to go when punishing this type of thing. This does not sit well with me at all and capital punishment in general just so you know.

The fact that you cover yourself up is neither here not there, dress how you like. It is a choice, a choice that the women of Afghanistan were never afforded under the brutal regime of the Taliban.

Basically I have some concerns at the kind of society Islam wants to set up. It's one thing to believe in "God" but it is quite another to be forced to live by a religion, I think.