To Moderate Muslim: On rape and chopping off hands

Submitted by Plato (India), Mar 12, 2007 at 23:18

This is what you say Moderate Muslim:

"You adressed the rape of women and the witnesses. These laws are wrong, and they are not Islamic. For instance, if you have three men who witnessed a rape, and did not stop it, they should be executed. Women must be protected from these laws by people who are willing to condemn these governments.

What I am trying to say is that these laws are not Islamic, but that they were invented by modern day men who use them as control mechanisms, and this is wrong, and this should be stopped"

How do you counter this:

Narrated 'Aisha:

The Prophet said, "The hand of a thief should be cut off for stealing a quarter of a Dinar."

Volume 8, Book 81, Number 781:

Narrated 'Aisha:

The Prophet said, "The hand should be cut off for stealing something that is worth a quarter of a Dinar or more."

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