gandalf wrote:
Quote:Now just plain stupidity.
24:33 from Sahih International:
"And if someone should compel them, then indeed, Allah is [to them], after their compulsion, Forgiving and Merciful."
Clearly, the forgiveness and mercy is for the poor girl who was forced into prostitution.
Your interpretation is not just wrong, it is plain stupid. What you are saying is that in two sentences, the quran directly contradicts itself: by saying that forcing slave girls into prostitution is forbidden - and then reversing that very clear command in the very next sentence.
There is no "command to rape" - in any context.
You are being very deceitful gandalf.
Well contradictions are part and parcel of the qur'an, however:
Rape of girls is not forbidden as you say.
24.33:Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity.
This first part of the verse is merely suggesting not to force girls into prostitution. There is absolutely no intimation of any kind, that rape is banned or forbidden in this first part. The second part then says:
And if one force them, then after their compulsion, lo! Allah will be Forgiving, Merciful
If the first part was meant to ban or forbid rape, why does the second part give absolution and permission, by saying in effect: oh well if you do rape them allah is forgiving and merciful?Tell me something, what is wrong with muslim mentality that you think an innocent girl who was forcefully raped, need forgiveness?
Nothing you say makes any logical sense gandalf.
There are innumerable verses which directly urge torture and murder of your fellow man, this verse which condones and sets the scene for rape to occur, fits in perfectly well with all the other verses advocating muslims have the doctrinal permission, to commit human rights atrocities of the most unspeakable kind, against their fellow man.
Why do you hide from the truth gandalf.
If you are fair dinkum about some sort of reform in islam, the very first step is to confront the evil in your theological writings, this verse is one of many malevolent evil verses in your doctrine.
You're only kidding yourself and your bootlicking flunkies the apologists.