(November 6, 2013 at 3:11 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote:(November 4, 2013 at 1:26 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment."Can you prove that those punishments are wrong?
— Qur'an, Sura 24
100 stripes, without compassion, witnessed by all, for [i]flirting![
Well, opinion is divided isn't it.
The vast majority of the civilised and enlightened world would say that this practise is barbaric and abhorrent whilst those living in backward theocracies or who's minds are twisted by wicked ideology would probably think this sort of thing is perfectly correct and the will of the creator of the universe.