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Did you know that in Islamic law, a parent who kills a child suffers no penalty?

Greenheart 7 June 26
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Atheists who preach lies and hatred are no better than the religious zealots who start genocide

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In fact the same is true with Christianity. Killing children is kind of the "god" thang! "Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks...." Psalm 137:9

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This is quite silly really. I am sure that somewhere in the Christian bibles you could search and find injunctions to kill children for some offence. That is simply selective reading to meet a need to criticise a faith. Islam is just as daft as Christianity, and in time, it will do as much evil, so I would not want to defend it. However, this statement is akin to islamophobia rather than criticism of religion.

Thank you. I'm really sick of Islamaphobia. It's like a cancer.

You are correct. Christianity is no different. I linked a screenshot just now.

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Some Muslims might argue that I suppose, but even a modest googling shows that killing your children is absolutely forbidden under most interpretations of Islamic law.

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I didn't know that. I'm more familiar with the Buy-bull.

Duet. 21: 18-21. If a man has a rebellious son he shall bring him to the elders of the city who shall have him stoned to death.

@Clare : Well, it came out of the Xian buybull.

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The Quran also states that a rape victim needs four male witnesses or else she gets jailed under Sharia. Disgusting religion which westerners, let alone feminists, should not be so eager to defend. And by the way, this is coming from someone who hates Donald Trump.

The Quran is based on the same Abrahamic tenets as Judaism, and its offshoot, Christianity. All Abrahamic religions are disgusting.

@Petter Very true, but when we talk about Christianity and Judaism, we don't divert to Islam. Liberals/atheists need to stop doing it vice versa.

@TheDarkNolanite Who is the "we"?
I personally lump every monotheistic faith into the same category.

Sad isn't it?

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Infanticide was largely ignored in Australia until the 1960s. Parents were not charged for beating kids to death.

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But atheists who peddle hate shall be blocked.

hate of what ... Facebook?

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It's not just Islam.

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Also ... under Shariah law if you tap an arab 5 times on the head with a willow branch they must gift you with a piece of gold.

lol!

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No, I did not know that. Do I believe it? Do I endorse it? Do I celebrate it? Those are different questions

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The Chinese do it -- kill female children. I know of some places that put just the head of a young boy in the front of a new store for good luck. Applying US standards of morality to everyone is pointless. It is a fight that you can not win.

xyz123 Level 7 June 27, 2018

And I for one am glad that "American standards of morality" are not applied to anywhere except America!

I agree To much ignorance for one country to handle It'll take eons to educate the opressive parts of the world

@DonnaCieslak I wouldn't call the Chinese ignorant. All Christians practice ritualistic cannibalism. I would say that we (US) has as far to go as the rest of the countries on the planet, though I'd rather live here.

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I believe i will just mention the Old Testament, where gawd commands Abraham to kill his Own son? So don't go all superior on Muslims, bunkie! And oh, wait.......have you put to death someone wearing mixed fibers, or having a tattoo, today? Slacker!

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I did hear this in reference to Pakistani honor killings, that its not prosecuted if the patriarch "ordered" the killing.

People confuse culture with religion. People confuse extremism with standard beliefs.

If there is a particular culture that has a particular religion, then you want to say the culture is totally separate from the religion per se. So lets go with the book I read on Johann Cornies where it briefly mentions that in the year 1845, a young Hutterite girl in Southern Russia ran away from her colony because she was being compelled to marry a much older man without her consent. Then from there you might make the logical academic argument that no where in the Bible can Jesus actually be quoted as ever having condoned any form of underage, forced marriage, nor was he ever an advocate of any type of conjugal servitude or non consensual wedding night involving marital rape. The bible doesn't actually say anything that directly justifies non consenting forced intimate relations between much older perverts and crying, frightened teen girls. So this may be an example of a bad cultural practice of which there are many. The next question becomes, can you separate the people from the text in other situations, Lets consider the "map" of bad cultural practices and think about the geographic map of where bad cultural practices are taking place or have taken place, and consider what is the predominant religion of that particular region and think about the historical time line and the map of where in the world where in the world these cultural practices take place. Let us consider the mob execution by lapidation and "stoning" of women in the streets in Mogadishu, FGM circumcision barbers in Egypt, gauvage style forced feeding of girls in Mauritania, hand cutting for theft in Syria, family honor killings in Pakistan, underage marriage in Mali, selling girls for bride price in Malawi, the guardianship program of Saudi Arabia that prevents an adult woman from seeking medical care without guardian consent,Turkish circumcision ceremonies with crying frightened seven to eleven year old boys being pinned down physically with no anesthetic, the spanish inquisition, the Salem witch trials, Chinese foot binding, Lip plated Mursi women, Head hunters of Borneo, Sati in India, acid throwing attacks by spurned and jilted suitors in bangladesh, Aztec human sacrifices in pre columbian Mesoamarica, Albino's hunted for body parts in Tanzania, infanticides and gender selective abortions in Rajasthan, FLDS underage plural marriages. Fully 1/3 to 1/2 of these brutalities which are still actively going on today, in a current time frame in the modern age over lies the map of the Islamic world. Its the same map, and the same people. For those of you that wrote to say Islam doesn't support the cultural practice are trying to have a "gotcha" moment and catch me on a small technicality, but to me its all the same person from the same future with the islamic creed who is doing the bad deed. Surely there are bad practices going on in the modern age that need to be stopped and I am not going to shut up just because someone name calls me a whatever kind of something or other "phobe" for mentioning how bad this is. Name calling is a tool employed by intellectually weak people who ran out of valid well supported arguments. In response I want to say that you liberals are virtue signaling how wonderfully tolerant you are and wheel you are gaining social approval for how wonderfully tolerant you are, somewhere in the world a clitoral ablation is going unmentioned, somewhere in the world today a rape victim is incarcerated, somewhere in the world dowry harassment continues, and a girl is sleeping in a menstrual hut, or taken out of school early because the cost to educate a girl isn't worthwhile. Somewhere today, an illiterate afghan woman is being beaten because her ankle was seen as she was stepping out of a taxi wearing a burqua. I particularly disagree with tolerant liberals that your virtue signaling is really all that virtuous. To me "virtue signaling" is just a farcical stage show and a phony depiction of feigned virtue, but where is the actual virtue. In my book, you have no actual virtue if you lack courage to call people out for bad practices and make a stand against human rights violations. You need to say loudly that these things are wrong. You need to add your voice and participate in calling people out when they do these things. To sit there and claim that Islam has nothing to do with any sort bad cultural practices is a denial based coping routine that you robotically swing into because it resolves your cognitive dissonance of how you can accept the unacceptable and still be "virtuous" and "tolerant" while you deliberately ignore socially acceptable wife beating in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Absolutely incorrect.
Infanticide and is explicitly prohibited by the Qur'an and most of the subsequent Islamic sacred books.
The OP is simply trying to spread Islamaphobia. Most people on this site will fact check claims of this kind, and obviously this claim is 100% untrue.

Livia Level 6 June 27, 2018
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Not true. It goes against the Quran's teachings and therefore is not Islamic.

Hihi Level 6 June 27, 2018

I propose you people who are saying the Q'aran forbids infanticide should do a google search of "Rajasthan Infanticide" and just see what pops up, if you think the Muslim religion is being altered for particular cultures, with certain aspects selectively followed and other tenets of the religion ignored and overlooked...

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Can you cite some passages please?

My question above is not rhetorical. By asking this question I am not making a statement about the veracity of your statement. I honestly want to learn more about this.

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That's pretty shocking

It’s a shocking misrepresentation, more like.

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Also ... under Shariah law if you tap an arab 5 times on the head with a willow branch they must gift you with a piece of gold.

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I wouldn't be surprised.

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You can have your Shariah law I'm happy living under the American Constitution

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