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penalty. Therefore, the rule here is intended merely to act as a deter-
rent, not to be enforced.
Christians who criticize Muslims because of this rule should real-
ly have a look at the Torah. The penalty of loss of a hand appears in the
Torah on some interesting pretexts. The penalty is also intended to
be enforced, and there is no question of having pity:

If a man is fighting with his brother, and the wife of one comes to defend
her husband, grabbing his attacker by his private parts, you must cut off
her hand and not have any pity. (Deuteronomy, 25: 11-12)
Another of the interesting rules regarding women in the Torah is
this:

If a woman presents herself to an animal and allows it to mate with her,
you shall kill both the woman and the animal. They shall be put to death
by stoning. (Leviticus, 20: 16)

The same thing applies to the Gospel. Some Christians accuse
Muslims of regarding women as second-class citizens. Yet when one
looks at the Gospel, there are striking statements in it placing
women in the position of second-class citizens and about men being
created to have dominion over them. Passages from the Gospel along
these lines are:

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the
church:. (Ephesians, 5:23)
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto
them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith
the law. (Corinthians, 14: 34-35)
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to busurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was
not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
(Timothy, 2:12-14)
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
(Corinthinas, 11: 9)

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