Gays Get The Death Penalty Under Islam
Gays get the death penalty under Islam, per Mohammed's wishes in the Hadith: "Whomever you find committing the sin of the people of Lut, kill them, both the one who does it and the one to whom it is done." (The "people of Lut" are sodomites)
Oh, that death penalty thing goes if they're just teenagers, too:
Here's more from the Ask A Scholar section at IslamOnline.net:
Name of Questioner Ahmad - United KingdomTitle
Death Fall as Punishment for HomosexualityQuestion
Respected scholars of Islam, As-Salamu `Alaykum wa Rahamtu Allah wa Barakatuh. I have read in a newspaper that an Iranian man who was convicted of raping and killing his 16-year-old nephew is to be executed by being thrown off a cliff in sack; and if the man survives the fall down a rocky precipice, he will be hanged. What is your comment on this issue?
Date
22/Jul/2002
Topic
Sexual perversity
Answer:
Wa`alykum As-Salaam Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear brother in Islam, we do really appreciate your question, which shows how far you are interested in getting yourself well-aquatinted with Islam and its teachings. May Allah bless your efforts in the pursuit of knowledge!
First of all, it should be clear that this man committed two heinous crimes: 1) homosexuality, and 2) murder. Each crime is sufficient to warrant death penalty.
...As to the issue of how the homosexual person is judged in an Islamic State, the Companions of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessing be upon him differed among themselves on this issue, and this led to different views maintained by Muslim Jurists. For example, in the Hanafi school of thought, the homosexual is punished through harsh beating, and if he/she repeats the act, death penalty is to be applied. As for the Shafi`i school of thought, the homosexual receives the same punishment of adultery (if he/she is married) or fornication (if not married). This means, that if the homosexual is married, he/she is stoned to death, while if single, he/she is whipped 100 times. Hence, the Shafi`i compares the punishment applied in the case of homosexuality with that of adultery and fornication, while the Hanafi differentiates between the two acts because in homosexuality, the anus (a place of impurity) may also be involved while in adultery (and fornication), the penis/vagina (which are reproductive parts) are involved. Some scholars hold the opinion that the homosexual should be thrown from a high building as a punishment for his crime, but other scholars maintain that he should be imprisoned until death.
Based on the above fact, we can conclude that, the judge is invested with full discretion as to whether this man is to be thrown from a high place or not, as a punishment for his crime. However, if the man survives death fall, the judge has the right to sentence him to death."
Do you think this will have any impact on the Ground Zero Gay Bar that Greg Gutfeld wants to open? (the link has a different tie in. Seems everything Islam leads my brain to the Red Eye show these days)
Suki at August 12, 2010 5:49 AM
Islam the religeon of peace....
David M. at August 12, 2010 6:25 AM
Luckily this does not happen in Iran, where there are no homosexuals.
Vinnie Bartilucci at August 12, 2010 6:56 AM
Although the practice is no longer observed; the christain bible calls for the same punishment.
Nuzltr2 at August 12, 2010 7:10 AM
"Although the practice is no longer observed; the christain bible calls for the same punishment."
Old testament. Not new, which is what christians follow (hence the term, christians)
momof4 at August 12, 2010 7:28 AM
Considering that almost all of these inhuman "punishments" seem to happen after the victims have been tortured into confessing, I think we also have to be extremely sceptical about whether the "crimes" were ever committed in the first place, pretty much every time.
Not that this crap is OK when the charges aren't invented, of course, but regimes this tyrannical rarely bother being rigorous with the truth, and it disturbs me how few people ever seem to mention that. The judges pick whose tale to believe, rarely requiring evidence. Quick way to get rid of an annoying wife, for instance- make up a story that she committed adultery, and the state might kill her for you.
Moral corruption correlates with severity of punishment at this level of tyranny. Let's not attribute undue honesty to these people. Most old religions and cultures and societies and countries had death rulings all over the place, but then they grew up and changed them. Iran went backwards instead.
Alice Bachini-Smith at August 12, 2010 8:08 AM
... and let us not forget that in many of the more backward and obsessive enclaves of Islam, the one who is raped (at least if it's a woman) is frequently subject to the same punishment for the supposed "adultery."
I suspect Mohammed would throw up if he spent a week in the present world and saw what's being done in his name. (As, for that matter, would Jesus.)
Steve H at August 12, 2010 9:15 AM
Steve why do you think Mohammed would throw up when those are the punishments he has ordered them to use? There really is no comparison between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of Mohammed.
DragonHawk at August 12, 2010 9:30 AM
The pedophile warlord would throw up if he saw the laws he put into place being carried out?
Elle at August 12, 2010 10:30 AM
momof4:Old testament. Not new, which is what christians follow
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Well, no - christians still turn to the law of Moses as a source of moral law.
Including homosexuality - except for ultra-progressive episcopalians, who are post-doctrinal anyway.
The difference is that the death penalty in the Law of Moses is largely literary/ceremonial - indicating the seriousness of the act.
The Talmud teaches that a high court that executes more than one criminal in a generation is considered too stringent - and the legal tradition requires corroboration by independent witnesses and other conditions that virtually insure the sentence won't be carried out.
(Similarly, the famous "eye for an eye" verse means restitution for damages, not gouging someone's eye out.)
Ben David` at August 12, 2010 1:02 PM
These people are absolute monsters. I watch these things and it makes my blood boil. It also makes me so, so, damn grateful I live in the United States.
14 and 16?! Unbelievable!
Feebie at August 12, 2010 10:25 PM
If you want to see what evil does in the name of Islam, click here.
Radwaste at August 13, 2010 2:34 PM
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