Opinion | July 24, 2010 | 86 comments

Christianity vs. Islam the Religion of Peace...Is this the Peace of Mohammed's Allah?... Child Caught Stealing Bread.

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Laws and practices under Sharia

Marriage laws
The Muslim man who is not currently a fornicator can only marry a Muslim woman who is not currently a fornicatress or a chaste woman from the people of the book.
The Muslim fornicator can only marry Muslim fornicatress.
The number of wives is limited to four, – Mohammed married 15 women and consummated his marriages with 13. (al-Tabari vol.9 p.126-127)
The Muslim woman who is not currently a fornicatress can only marry a Muslim man who is not currently a fornicator.
The Muslim fornicatress can only marry a Muslim fornicator.
The woman cannot marry without the consent of her guardian. If she marries, her husband becomes her new guardian.
The guardian may choose to marry the virgin without asking her consent, however she can oppose the marriage and then it is cancelled.
The guardian cannot marry the divorced woman or the widow if she didn't ask to be married.
The number of husbands is limited to one, the Muslim mistress cannot have sex with her slaves.
Islamic law on marriage differs from one school of thought to another.[6]

Divorce laws
A husband may divorce his wife whenever he wants. If the marriage has been consummated, the divorced woman must remain at her ex-husband's house for three months before she is allowed to leave. The man has the ability to retract the divorce by having sex with the woman within those three months.
A woman who wishes to be divorced needs the consent of her husband. If he consents she has to pay back the dowry. Under certain circumstances (abuse, for instance), the wife may ask a judge to separate the couple.
If a man divorces his wife three times, he can no longer marry her again unless she marries another man and then divorces him. These are guidelines; Islamic law on divorce is different depending on the school of thought.[7]

The penalty for theft
In accordance with the Qur'an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed.[2][3]

The penalty for adultery
Main article: Stoning to Death in Islam

In accordance with hadith, stoning to death is the penalty for married men and women who commit adultery.[4] For unmarried men and women, the punishment prescribed in the Qur'an and hadith is 100 lashes.[5]

Dietary laws
Main article: Islamic dietary laws

Sharia dictates that Muslims may only eat from meat that has been slaughtered in the name of God and meets stringent dietary requirements. Such meat is called halal, or "lawful". Islamic law prohibits a Muslim from eating pork, and most juridical opinions also hold monkey, dog, cat, carnivores and several other types of animal as haram (prohibited). For the meat of an animal to be halal it must be one of the declared halal species, and the animal may not be killed by excessively cruel or painful means. The traditional means of slaughter is by slicing open the jugular veins at the neck, resulting in quick blood loss; a state of shock and unconsciousness is induced, and death soon follows through cardiac arrest.

According to the Qur'an, the animal does not have to be slaughtered by a Muslim, but may be slaughtered by a Jew or a Christian (People of the Book) as long as it meets their strict dietary laws. This does not normally apply in modern times as animals are normally not slaughtered by Christians in the name of God. The majority of Christians no longer have rituals associated with slaughter, nor do they ask for God's permission before the kill. The method of slaughter used by most Christian butchers is also considered inappropriate by many Muslims. (Al-Ma'ida 5: "The food of those who have received the Scripture is lawful for you.")- this is only provided it is killed in accordance with God's Law, and in His name. Most Muslims will accept kosher meat as halal. (Qur'an 2:173, 6:121)

The role of women under Sharia
Main article: women in Islam

Islam does not prohibit women from working, but emphasizes the importance of housekeeping and caring for the families of both parents. In theory, Sunni Islamic law allows husbands to divorce their wives at will, by clearly saying talaq ("I divorce you"). The divorce becomes permanent if the couple has been divorced three times. Women do not have the same right to divorce. In Shi'a Islam, divorce is more involved than this and state proceedings vary. In 2003, for example, a Malaysian court ruled that, under Sharia law, a man may divorce his wife via text messaging as long as the message was clear and unequivocal. [8] Such a divorce, known as the "triple talaq" is not allowed in most Muslim states. The divorced wife always keeps her dowry from when she was married, and is given child support until the age of weaning, at which point the child may be returned to its father if it is deemed to be best.

Islam has no clergy, but women may become religious scholars. In practice, it is much more common for men to be scholars than women. Many interpretations of Islamic law hold that women may not have prominent jobs, and thus are forbidden from working in the government. This has been a mainstream view in many Muslim nations in the last century, despite the example of Muhammad's wife Aisha, who both took part in politics[citation needed] and was a major authority on hadith.

A Muslim may not marry or remain married to an unbeliever of either sex (2:221, 60:10). A Muslim man may marry a woman of the People of the Book (5:5); traditionally, however, Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam.
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86 comments // Christianity vs. Islam the Religion of Peace...Is this the Peace of Mohammed's Allah?... Child Caught Stealing Bread.

  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • AND THE POINT IS? Islam is evil? Christianity is evil, all religion is evil. religion kills through intolorance. Actually Islam is stuck in the past about 900 years ago

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • tommic:

      essentially religion in itself is not evil. its some of the leadership who misinterpret or misrepresent it either intentionally or unintentionally to control the masses. the word of god is pure unto itself. it takes mankind to fuck it up

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
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      tommic  
    • congoboy:

      and how many have died through history due to religious wars? How about the extermination of Jews because they were Jews? Christian crusades? Even the Hindu and Tamils. No I disagree with you religion is inheritly evil, only my opinion, for which I am entitled. Even you admit that. Thats why I follow you, even though we disagree much of the time we respect each other opinions. We're both alittle crazy in our own way

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • tommic:

      yes, i respect your opinion. you, unlike many others on here are a thinker and i appreciate that even though we do disagree often. and yes a little insanity helps the day go by in this crazy fucked up world.

    • 1 year ago
  • Justo_Britt
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      Justo_Britt  

    • Peace,
      Your Question is: Is this the Peace of Mohammed’s Allah?
      First -- I don’t know what you mean by Mohammed’s Allah.
      Second – ALLAH’s (GOD) doing is ALLAH’s (GOD) doing,
      ALLAH (GOD) has his reasons - Peace

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • TargetMouse
    • +2
      TargetMouse  

    • I think that history will dispute either as a religion of peace and provides proof if the fallability and abuses of both when allowed free range and power...

    • 1 year ago
  • flyingkick
    • +3
      flyingkick  

    • Congoboy, you're getting to be worse than Foxnews.
      All shock, no critical thinking.

      I really don't have a problem with articles that explore other points of view, but you have to have the ability to defend your opinion. Otherwise, you just come off as a brainwashed broken record. So far, all I've read from you are personal attacks and sound bites. You don't even attempt to engage people who disagree with you.

      Seriously, scroll down and take a look at all the people who've made thoughtful comments, and Congoboy basically just tells them to fuck off with a personal attack.

      Eventually people are going to start flagging you for your TOS violations because they're tired of it, and you'll get booted like the rest of them.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • flyingkick:

      its just like you on the left to try and squelch freedom of expression. kinda funny, the left used to be quite serious about such things/ but now its i believe in freedom of my own speech and if you disagree youre a racist, bigot etc

    • 1 year ago
  • shizzam
  • LibertyMinded
  • congoboy
  • Justo_Britt
  • Idoknow19
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      Idoknow19  

    • Hey congoboy! Your blind, ignorant, hateful, paranoid, unfounded, heavily biased, attention craving opinions are showing! (again)

      Seriously, this guy is just a forum troll on steroids.

    • 1 year ago
  • MhaAttDer
  • Idoknow19
    • +1
      Idoknow19  
    • MhaAttDer:

      Most certainly! That is, if posting those cherry-picked laws out-of-context was with specific intent to paint some party or another in an unfairly negative way.

      However, I know by your response that you're not interested in a reasoned conversation so feel free to contort my words as you see fit.

    • 1 year ago
  • MhaAttDer
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • Idoknow19
    • +2
      Idoknow19  
    • congoboy:

      Look, you didn't post a news story on a user-generated news site. You cherry-picked some Shaira laws and spun them into an editorial post specifically against Muslims and added a picture of a child in danger in order to associate Muslims with fear. You made overarching assumptions about an entire religion based on a few biased preconceptions about laws that you picked to verify your views.

      In response to my opinion, you then launched into profanity-laced harassment, calling me and those who agree with me "pussies". Instead of logic, you made an ad hominim argument (which is a logical fallacy I might add) against someone you don't even know and got really, really angry in the process.

      Earlier in the week, your resorted to the juvenile tactic of following my comments around the site, posting nothing more than "uh huh yup mmhm yes mmmm mmhm ya mmhm yup yes uh huh mmhm".

      Your behavior is unbecoming in a community of intelligent and honest people and your attitude and bias has garnered consistent negative ratings in the community. I've already reported your article and your comments. Your article got pulled and if your behavior persists, I will report you again.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • Idoknow19
  • maurajriordan
    • +2
      maurajriordan  

    • So you know how dumb it makes Christianity look if that's what drove you to post this right... You're not putting anything new up there that people don't already know or haven't heard of about Islam. So stop adding fuel to the fire and wasting peoples time with your negativity.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • randallr01
  • eden49
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • congoboy
  • Stoneyroad
  • congoboy
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • I'm personally sick of seeing the hate on all sides regarding religion. There is good and bad in all religions and there are good and bad Christians, Muslims, Jews, and guess what, even atheists. Whether that is even due to the religion they follow or don't is debatable, although I do agree that fundamentalist extremes in all religions throughout history tend to be the most violent and reactionary. I honestly don't understand however what anyone hopes to accomplish with these circle jerk types of posts about any religious denomination (except to move up the list here) but it surely illustrates nicely why this world is in the shape its in.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • JanforGore:

      just trying to keep your eyes wide shut, you on the left tend to ignore everything in the world except whats spoon fed to you by your ignorant leftest friends who dont know shit ,try reality, what a concept! but some religions are worse than others.

    • 1 year ago
  • MhaAttDer
  • ScottyT
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • congoboy:

      Wow, you are so far gone in your own ideological haze you think everyone who doesn't share YOUR concept of the world is a lefty. FYI, I don't believe what is spoon fed to me, I can think for myself. And I also have no political party. I do not write about left or right, but RIGHT AND WRONG. Personally, I agree with the other poster here that you simply post to get attention and to then turn around and satisfy your own need to debase others. l will then remember to not give you that attention in subsequent threads.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • flyingkick
  • flyingkick
    • +3
      flyingkick  

    • What is the point of this post?

      There's no real comparison being made between Christianity and Islam, because you don't analyze Christianity at all. So why do you even bring up Christianity? The title makes it sound like you're going to give a side-by-side comparison, but all you do is list Sharia Law, which hasn't even been the official law of Islamic countries for that long.

      I have a feeling your point is that Islam is somehow more inherently repressive and violent than Christianity because of Sharia laws. That point doesn't really make sense when you consider that not all Muslims practice or condone Sharia laws.
      If you want to say certain Middle Eastern states are repressive and violent, that makes more sense. But, the evidence you present here is not enough to claim that Islam itself is inherently savage, violent, etc.

      If you want to know how savage Christianity is, just take a look at the US. All of our past presidents in the modern era have been Christian. These Christian presidents have nuked civilian cities, bombed soft targets, illegally invaded countries. How's that for a religion of peace?

      I really don't understand what you're doing here with this. I mean, are you trying to get everyone to hate Islam? We're already blowing up Islamic nations and killing innocent Islamic people. Is this supposed to make you feel less guilty about that?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • +1
      congoboy  
    • flyingkick:

      so why are they burying woman up to their chests and stoning them to death, chopping off fingers and hands and running over a poor child's arm, gouging out eyes, hacking people to death in public. you are wayyyy so fuckin wrong on this one oh insignificant mofo

    • 1 year ago
  • flyingkick
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • flyingkick:

      i dont need to analyze christianity, im comfortable with it even though im a jew. besides the left does a good job of dissecting and distorting it themselves with all their christophobic bashing

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
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      Nephwrack  

    • here we go with the "i hate muslims" echo chamber again....seriously, why dont the four or five of you who constantly put this tripe up all over current just buy some ar-15's and go over there and do something about it?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
  • unimatrix0
    • +6
      unimatrix0  

    • Christians and Muslims are equally deluded in their metaphysical superstitions.

      This post is nothing but a transparent effort to promote the hatred of Islam and Islamic people.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • unimatrix0:

      they do a pretty good job of promoting it themselves. glad to see youre so sensitive. next time they bury a woman up to her chest and stone her to death for simple unproven allegations, we'll look to you for your sagely advice. thanks uni!

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      christianity did that and a whole lot worse for almost 400 years in the inquasition.
      while niether are preferable, if i had to choose id go for the stoning over the spreading of my asshole until i converted.but hey thats just me

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      its always the same argument with you guys and islam.
      i ask when did christianity get a do over-
      you obfuscate and switch the matter off of chronology and stear it in to savagery, citing contemperary examples-
      then we go tit for tat for a while back and forth with stoning vs the inquasition, burkas versus puritanical christians,and finaly it comes back to when events over lap with the debate being then kkk bombings vs terrorist bombings, and abortion doctor killers vs shoe bombers, all the while not settling anything in relation to either of our arguments.
      so lets just skip that waste of time part and get right to when the statute on slaying in the name of god ends.cuz if you could let us know, that would be great cuz thats when the discussion always ceases.is it a decade after it is done that it is considered no longer relevant to the discussion so we only have another year of muslum bashing to go, or is it like a century, cuz ya dont want to really go that far cuz the kkk, and the ireland troubles are in that time frame.
      so you just let me know what time period is allowed for this discussion so i can not waste either of our time on information deemed water under the bridge.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
    • +2
      CalgarC  

    • the religion of comon sense... the one i have been following for years... we at the church of comon sense preach just one thing

      "J.F.G.I" (Just Fucking Google It)

      everyone is welcome to join and it wont cost you a penny, hell you might actually learn something :D

    • 1 year ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  

    • God of Islam is 'biggest terrorist'

      The son of a Hamas leader who helped Israel's security forces kill and arrest members of the Islamic terrorist group says he's not afraid to die.

      Yousef's memoir-- Son of Hamas -- was published this week. In it, he describes his more than ten-year relationship with Israeli security service Shin Bet.

      Yousef says the Israeli security service has an important job. "They are facing a dirty, difficult war," he remarks. "I don't agree with everything that they do and I'm against it. I was very honest when I was inside the organization and they know my position, and today they are not surprised with me [or] what I'm saying in public."

      During the AP interview, Yousef -- a convert to Christianity -- hurled his most inflammatory comments at Islam. Acknowledging that the comment would likely offend many people -- but that his goal is not to offend -- he said: "The biggest terrorist is Allah of the Quran, the god of the Quran, the god of Islam."

      Yousef's father, senior Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, publicly disowned his son on Monday.

      http://current.com/news/92269889_god-of-islam-is-biggest-terrorist.htm

    • 1 year ago
  • randallr01
    • +2
      randallr01  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      You decry this Islamic "eye for an eye" mentality, yet there are those things from the Old Testament that you cherry-pick to justify your own views & ideology.... Pick & choose, pick & choose, that's all you know to do!

    • 1 year ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  
    • randallr01:

      Jesus came to fulfill the old testaments "religious rules" so that we would no longer have to sacrifice animals for forgiveness of sin, Jesus was the ultimate sacrfifice. so now there is no need for animal sacrifices

      The old testament is still relevant, you just have to understand the context

    • 1 year ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      the ync.com
      the home of the stuff our news is too squemish to show, but is the sad reality.

      dont view that site unless you are feeling strong enough to handle human suffering at a level your not accustom to.it fucked me up for a while as i wasnt prepared for what i saw.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  

    • nothing like a little xenophobia to start the day.
      too bad no westerner was interested in evaluating islam before 9-11.i guess if you demonize them after the fact, it some how absolves the previous willfull ignorance.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      no westerner is a bit broad, you might say no leftest westerner. some of us with a vested interest in the survival of israel have been following islamic atrocities for years.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXXwVmEWy0

      well i was giving any reader of my comment the benefit of understanding that i wasnt making a literal statement as to EVERY single westerner, as we have theologins,muslums,people who live in communities with muslsums,professors and so on.it was a statement of general status not literal synopsis.
      the left and the right are equaly uninformed as the left only gets fed the poor palastinian story, and the right is spoon fed the evil palastinian story.niether serves to illuminate us as to the cuture of yemen,qatar,iraq,iran,saudia arabia,syria,egypt,jordan,and so on.
      not to mention the bazillion sects of islam that course throughout these countries as well as the caucus regions.

      the point is we are willfully ignorant of other cultures until we decide to fuck with them, and then we only get the info that supports that agenda.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      oh no no no
      both sides cherry pic truth and spin it for thier agenda, but niether side presents truth to the public.
      the palastinians arent inherantly evil and savage, nor are they innocent victims of zionism.israel isnt a malevolent thug emmulating nazism, nor do they do no wrong.
      these are the narratives presented are they not?
      not really based in truth so much but political agenda and hate speech

    • 1 year ago
  • trut
  • congoboy
  • trut
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      trut  

    • If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times, arm the women and disarm the men. Every Afghan lady when she reaches the age of 12 should be given a machine gun and a safe refuge from these Islamists. A well armed group of feminists(Amazons), funded by the west(obviously), could end this tyranny very quickly. There would be some innocent people who would be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time but hey, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet you know.
      Well congoboy, do you think it could work?

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • trut:

      possibly, holding back sex wont as theyre obligated through fear and force if necessary. arming them just might work. i think the u.s. could use a few more armed women as well. ya know equal rights and the wimins movement and all. speaking of which why isnt the american womens movements speaking out against shiria law and islamic spousal abuse? just wondering

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • -2
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      according to you islam is a threat so this would increase that threat if my assesment of the women is accurate, so they arent your kind of woman, they want to kill you,a lot.they arent gun toting barbies, they are armed jihadis with stronger resolve than thier male counterparts.
      ya think they are gunna focus thier angst on thier men, or us?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • eden49
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      eden49  
    • congoboy:

      ...I'm surprised they haven't spoken out...and herein lies the problem, CB, politcal correctness...sigh...women have to stand up for their freedom...easier said than done, I know...

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      sure
      im a michelle rodriguez fan myself, with the swat and resident evil style bad assness, but angie and michelle arent gunna kill us.just zombies and brad pitt

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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