Sharia directs that women accused of adultery be stoned to death. This report does not explain why this woman was shot to death instead. In any case, putting adulterers (although usually only women are punished this way) to death is not “extremist”; it is Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, even maintained that it was originally in the Qur’an:
‘Umar said, “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, “We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to death) in the Holy Book,” and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. Lo! I confirm that the penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by witnesses or pregnancy or confession.” Sufyan added, “I have memorized this narration in this way.” ‘Umar added, “Surely Allah’s Apostle carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him.” (Bukhari, vol. 8, bk. 82, no. 816)
“Allah’s Apostle” is, of course, Muhammad, who did indeed carry out stonings. Here is the hadith in which he challenges the rabbis about stoning, and in which there is amidst the barbarism and brutality a final act of love and compassion:
The Jews came to Allah’s Apostle and told him that a man and a woman from amongst them had committed illegal sexual intercourse. Allah’s Apostle said to them, “What do you find in the Torah (old Testament) about the legal punishment of Ar-Rajm (stoning)?” They replied, (But) we announce their crime and lash them.” Abdullah bin Salam said, “You are telling a lie; Torah contains the order of Rajm.” They brought and opened the Torah and one of them solaced his hand on the Verse of Rajm and read the verses preceding and following it. Abdullah bin Salam said to him, “Lift your hand.” When he lifted his hand, the Verse of Rajm was written there. They said, “Muhammad has told the truth; the Torah has the Verse of Rajm. The Prophet then gave the order that both of them should be stoned to death. (‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said, “I saw the man leaning over the woman to shelter her from the stones.” (Bukhari, vol. 4, bk. 56, no. 829)
Even the monkeys practiced stoning, according to another hadith:
During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them. (Bukhari, vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 188)
Muhammad’s example is, of course, normative for Islamic behavior, since “truly in the messenger of Allah you have a good example for him who looks to Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah much” (Qur’an 33:21).
“Woman Shooting by Taliban Members in Baghlan,” BNA, March 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Pul-e-Khumri City (BNA) A woman shot dead by fighters of Taliban group in northern Baghlan province yesterday.
Khadija Yaqeen head of women affair department of Baghlan told BNA correspondent, the woman accused of adultery have been shot dead by Taliban fighters in Dara Ashraf, Talo-e-Barfak district of the province.
Abdul Ahmad Barfaki, district governor of Talo-e-Barfak said, Dara Ashraf is under control of Taliban group and police started searching to identify and capture the perpetrators of the incident….
revereridesagain says
Advocacy for punishment of women for “having their fun” is not confined to followers of the religion of Islam. It’s just that they have “sanctified” it in their tyrannical Sharia — claiming that their “unknowable” but somehow male god has decreed women to be worth only half of me — and turned it into a spectacle, whether she is stoned or shot or burned to death.
By now it is no surprise that the ‘woke’ and ‘feminist’ Left shrugs and turns its back on this barbarity, minimizing and even excusing it, spitting names at those who try to put an end to the brutality and carnage. The Islamic world should be continually shamed from one end to the other for its treatment of women and girls, but the West is too busy trying to destroy the lives of parents who resist orders to attempt to manipulate the sexual nature of their immature children who are having hissy fits because they “don’t like” the one they were born with.
Battle says
revereridesagain hits nail on head. Good.
Jim Austin says
Postmodern liberals say all cultures are equal and tied to race. Thus when confronted with murder of women accused with adultery brought about by Moslem culture, liberal disapproval falls, not on the homicidal culture, but on those who’d condemn it, accusing them of hate, intolerance, bigotry, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism.
mortimer says
Yes, the postmodern neo-Marxists claim that it is bigotry to draw attention to the cruel punishments of their protected ‘Noble Savages’.
Whereas, it is the ‘Noble Savages’ … the Taliban … who are the world’s greatest bigots at the moment.
James Lincoln says
Jim Austin says,
“…when confronted with murder of women accused with adultery brought about by Moslem culture, liberal disapproval falls, not on the homicidal culture, but on those who’d condemn it…”
I’m trying to understand this warped thinking, but I can’t seem to wrap my head around it…
mortimer says
James, cui bono?
How about this explanation? The neo-Marxists are shielding valuable allies for participation in their common fight against Western civilization. Without the Muslims, the Leftards can never succeed.
Once the neo-Marxists take over, they will turn on their Muslim temporary allies and suppress Islam in the same way that they are suppressing free speech right now.
mortimer says
For James Lincoln … a PSYCHOLOGICAL- PHILOSOPHICAL explanation … a romantically idealized portrayal of non-industrialized or exotic people
THE LEFT’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROMANTIC PRIMITIVISM …
https://www.the-philosophy.com/noble-savage-rousseau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
James, it’s complicated … political need, philosophical errors, romanticization of savages.
The Left wants to believe in their own natural goodness … that they are better than Stalin.
James Lincoln says
Thanks, mortimer.
I’ll try to unpack this…
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the idea that leftists are using the poor Muslims for nefarious purposes does not really hold water. Most leftists I know are in deep denial that Islam is a problem at all.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, you are right that liberals romanticize Islam.
mortimer says
Another honor killing. Interesting, isn’t it, that most of the victims of honor killing are women?
The Taliban are showing what they have in store if they return to power.
Who can forget the iconic photograph of the Taliban shooting kneeling women in the sports stadium in the head?
FYI says
John chpt 8;The Woman caught in Adultery
Compare muhamed with Jesus Christ.
On one hand we see muhammed stoned women for adultery{Muslim 4206}:he showed no mercy,no compassion,no giving the woman the chance to repent and make it right with God{through repentance and atonement}
Jesus Christ,on the other hand, showed mercy ,compassion and gave the woman the chance to make it right with God:”Go, but do not sin again”
Jesus Christ condemned the “holy” men who tried to trick Jesus by saying.
“In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman be stoned to death”:Yet Jesus equates the Law of Moses with the Golden Rule{Matthew 7 v 12}something the ‘holy’ men in their ignorance obviously missed.
Jesus Christ said “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
John 8:7
Note how muhammed,a man who happily indulged in adultery himself with enslaved women{as PERMITTED by the koran k4:24} was always it seems so keen to “throw the first stone” thus proving himself to be a man who clearly thought he was without sin.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer quotes: “During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them. (Bukhari, vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 188)
That is surely one of the most decidedly absurd passages in Islam’s primary texts. How can a Muslim living in the modern world believe that?
That is one of the most effective passages for deprogramming Muslims.
CogitoErgoSum says
Monkey see, monkey do.
FYI says
It must have come as a great surprise to the monkeys to discover that what they were doing was “illegal”.The impression seems to be,from that hadith, that the “She-monkey”{or “it”},the female of the species, was the cause of it.If only she had worn a hijab.
The sheer hypocrisy too of the ‘holy’ man throwing stones:muhammed himself,If I am not mistaken,was famously caught in flagrante committing Adultery with Mary the Copt.
{In fact those monkeys would have been entitled to throw stones at muhammed….given his islamically “illegal” activities with a woman who was not his wife}
After the pre-islamic period of Ignorance… it was the islamic period of Ignorance{1,400 years of it}which still continues to this day.
Perhaps if enough muslims grow up and abandon islam we will have the post-islamic period of Enlightenment
{with Music,Art,Literature,Philosophy,Science,Humor,Cartoons etc:the wondrous world of the Infidels}
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder how Muhammad knew the monkey being stoned was not an infidel slave monkey who was the possession of some Jihadi Muslim monkey (as Mary the Copt was). Also, Muhammad was supposed to make sure there were at least four other male monkeys who witnessed her adulterous act — and not just start throwing stones at her in imitation of a bunch of monkeys. This hadith seems very embarrassing for Muhammad — as many of the hadiths do. How can anyone take this stuff seriously?
Michael Copeland says
Those monkeys were presumably jews, if Koran is to be believed.
CogitoErgoSum says
Michael, I guess he figured that out when they wouldn’t believe him when he told them he was their prophet.
Wellington says
Good thing Mary Magdalene lived two thousand years ago and came across Jesus rather than living in the 7th century and coming across Mohammed. Instructive, highly, and again and again, the many differences between Jesus and Mohammed and which always redound to Jesus’ credit and never Mohammed’s.
James Lincoln says
Amen, Wellington…
Wellington says
I would vigorously contend, James, that one does not need to be a Christian, or even religious at all, to conclude that Christianity serves a highly useful purpose in society because of its ethical component alone, irrespective of any theological truth that might reside in it. Ditto for Judaism and certain other religions/ethical systems like those originating in ancient India and China.
But this positive assessment of the role of religion in societies aplenty most certainly cannot include Islam. And the etiology of such a philosophical assessment of religion is very much rooted, cannot help but be wrapped up in, in the character of the founder of the religion in question. And when one looks at the character of the reputed founder of the Islamic faith, the only sensible and informed assessment can be, has to be, that someone like Mohammed had no business founding a religion. None at all. Indeed, such a person should be consigned to eternal obloquy. Dante placing Mohammed in the Eighth Circle of Hell comes to mind.
Hope you are well and hope too we get over this damn corona virus sooner rather than later. Best to you and yours as always.
GreekEmpress says
Wellington,
It looks like your posting problem got resolved.
Yay!! ???
James Lincoln says
A fine post, Wellington.
And it appears that your posting problems” are finally over…
Welcome back!
mike says
lets send OMAR
solve everything
OLD GUY says
May the murders of this women burn in HELL. And sadly I’am still awaiting the outrage of the female population about this kind of behavior by a so called religious set of rules in islam. The anti abortion groups who protest a women right to decisions about their bodies when it comes to child birth seem to ignore the right of a women to chose a partner for the sex act. I see death to the women who commits adultery as way extreme and worthy of a protest march against sharia law that supports it.
Why is it that if the POPE says something that the liberals don’t like, it is all over the news and media with outrage, even if it protects the life of human, but if islam murders women and children in the name of islamic religious sharia law nobody cares. Are we that afraid of islamophobia?
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban shoot and kill woman who was accused of adultery
…………
Poor thing–I guess she was lucky they didn’t stone her to death.
And even the government of Afghanistan–which is supposed to be civilized–regularly imprisons women for such “crimes” as trying to run away from forced marriages or for fleeing abusive husbands.