"Should the Laws of Gravitation be Reconsidered? Sharia is the legal framework within which the most private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a Muslim society | There are seldom four witnesses to a rape |
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Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 795 Sahih Ibn Majah, compiled by Imam ibn Majah d |
874 Sahih Tarmidhi, compiled by Imam Tarmidhi d.
17The sharia law requiring a raped woman to produce four adult male Muslim eyewitnesses to prove her case makes a mockery of the Quranic injunction that requires the state to produce four eyewitnesses to prove adultery: an almost impossibility | They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred |
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The sort of intellect, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and poetic faculty—including a sense of humour—that is required to reform a society is conspicuously absent from the traditional conservative leadership of the Islamists | As mere mortals, we need to dig deeper into our souls and search for the humility that is required of us as Muslims |
Espenak, Fred; Meeus, Jean January 26, 2007.
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