Reply #39: For the one point you made [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

when you said Mohammed wrote the Qur'an; this was impossible as he could not write.

When a person says they know of Islam and make the statement you made a person may wonder a bit about your expertise in knowing Islam.

Like many Muslims, I view the Qur'an as a book of its time; the mere fact that a woman could testify in a court of law was rather innovative in a time where women were often looked upon as chattel. Kindly point to what sura and verse condemned homosexuality. When I did an online search, I couldn't find anything.

As for adultery,yes, the Qur'an does say to punish by flogging. But again it is put into the context of its time--flogging was punishment for all sorts of crimes during that time and later, not just in Arabia but also in the British Isles. I believe flogging was banned by the Royal Navy only in the nineteenth century; I do know that the last time drawing and quartering was used by the King was ca 1803. Moderate Muslims and modern Muslim states understand the historical nature of what is stated in the Qur'an.

To assume that all Muslims are like the most conservatives is like assuming that all Christians are like Jimmy Swaggert.