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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger
STONING TO DEATH IS AN UN-ISLAMIC, PAGAN
TRADITION THAT HAS NO PLACE IN THE QUR'AN.
is an immaculate Muslim who
took our Prophet (pbuh) as his
role model, lived his whole
life for God, faced many diffi-
culties for His sake and who
even risked death because of
his faith in God and protection
of our Prophet (pbuh) and the
Qur'an. To say that this supe-
rior and blessed person who
never feared any criticism,
death, battle or threats
throughout his life, failed to
declare a verse that had been
removed from the Qur'an
because he was merely afraid
of gossip is the foul and slan-
derous product of a mind that
has nothing to do with Islam.
In addition to all that, the
pronouncement regarding
adultery is set out in quite
some detail in the Qur'an, and
The penalty of stoning to death applied in coun- there is absolutely no place in
tries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Ara- it for the savagery known as
bia under the name of "Islamic Sharia," is a vio-
stoning to death, or rajm. If the
lation of Islam and the Qur'an, and is indeed
murder. The picture above shows stoning in subject of stoning were in the
Iran.
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