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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

a fellow [Israelite], both the adulterer and adulteress shall be put to death.
(Leviticus, 20:10)
If a man has intercourse with his father's wife, he has committed a sexual
offense against his father. Therefore, both of them shall be put to death by
stoning. (Leviticus, 20:11)
If a man has intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be
put to death. Since they have committed an utterly detestable perversion,
they shall be stoned to death. (Leviticus, 20:12)
If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is a perversion, and both he
and they shall be burned with fire. (Leviticus, 20:14)
In the Koran, on the other hand, someone who accuses another
person of adultery has to produce four eyewitnesses to the event. A
person can only be convicted of adultery in the presence of four wit-
nesses and if those witnesses were present and actually saw the event
with their own eyes.
After conviction, the punishment is a hundred strokes (Koran,

24:2-8). The sentence is clearly intended as a deterrent because the
presence of four eyewitnesses during the commission of adultery is
impossible in practice.
Verses also say that if four witnesses cannot be produced the
charges are to be rejected:

And the punishment is removed from her if she testifies four
times by God that he [her husband] is lying. (Koran, 24:8)
In the Torah, however, the punishment for adultery is stoning to
death. In addition, there is no need to produce eyewitnesses; mere alle-
gation is enough for conviction. Some Christians criticize Islam on this
subject but say nothing about this command in the Torah. Such a cruel

and blatant rule could be laid at the door of all Jews and Christians if one
so wished. These matters could lead to the emergence of very peculiar
ideas about Christians and Jews. But Muslims regard the rule here as in-
tended to be a deterrent, one that could never be applied in practice,

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