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

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A good response but lets delve a little deeper but let me clear something up. You say I am here to defend my religion. I don't know what made you think I was here to defend a religion. Defend the choice of belief system, whether it be religious or otherwise is really what I am about.

Let me state something else that I am not comfortable about with Islam is its intolerance to other religions, at least in the middle east that seems to be the case. The teaching of the Qu'ran do state that non believers (Muslims) are to be shunned, will be sent to hell etc, etc and as far as I can tell (thus far and I may be wrong) the jews are pretty much done for. But we can come back to that later if you like, particularly since I haven't given it much more than a cursory glance. In Saudie I believe it is an offence to bring a bible to the country or import them, something like that.

My postings are getting long now !!

You brought up some interesting issues but I want to get back on track with Amina's case. There is no doubt that Amina had sex while she was not married and that is not what I want to discuss and I feel we are the end of this particular debate.

I really don't think that the punishment is at all acceptable in a "modern' free thinking society. Religion was built up around the environment and times it developed in. Surely the time is right for moderation and reform of some of the more extreme parts of religion ? Particulalry in regards to capital punishment ? I really can not think that a mercifull God would get any kind of satisfaction from the knowledge that some poor, uneducated, ignorant single mother is going to be pelted with rocks while the mob yell "God is great". Even the Taliban modernised it, they would knock a wall over on the person with a bulldozer !!

Nigeria knows the world is watching and I very much doubt that this woman will be killed. Howver, it does make me question the sanity of Islamic extremists.

Anyway, if you want to live in a country that implements sharia law why don't you go to such a region ? suadie maybe ? Iran ?

If you can, would you mind saying where you are located ?