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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

Some Misguided Statements Regarding
Women in the Torah and the Gospel

Misconceptions regarding the Islamic view of women are fre-
quently brought up by some Christian groups, particularly as of late.
The fact is, however, that as we have seen in detail, the Koranic view
of women is based on love, affection, compassion and justice.
The way that some Christian groups who produce these criti-
cisms of Islam never mention certain statements that appear in the
Torah and the Gospel is grounds for suspicion. When we look at the
Torah and the Gospel we see that some very terrible things are said
in regard to women.
For example, in the Torah, which Christians also regard as a holy
book and one of their own scriptures, the punishment for an adulter-
ess is to be stoned to death. Contrary to the practice in certain Islamic
countries, stoning to death appears absolutely nowhere in the Koran

itself. But it does in the Torah. Passages on the subject read as follows:
If a man is found lying with a married woman, both the woman and the
man lying with her shall be put to death. You shall thus rid Israel of evil.
(Deuteronomy, 22: 22)
[This is the law] where a virgin girl is betrothed to one man, and another
man comes across her in the city and has intercourse with her. Both of
them shall be brought to the gates of that city, and they shall be put to
death by stoning. [The penalty shall be imposed on] the girl because she did
not cry out [even though she was] in the city, and on the man, because he
violated his neighbor's wife. You shall thus rid yourselves of evil.
(Deuteronomy, 22: 23-24)
If the accusation is true, however, and the girl does not have evidence of
her innocence, then they shall take her out to the door of her father's house,
and the people of her city shall put her to death by stoning. (Deuteronomy,
22: 20-21)
If a man commits adultery with a married woman, [and] she is the wife of

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