On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:54:12 GMT, in uk.politics.misc, for Re: Cherie Blair: my
doubts about the Muslim veil, Svenne , wrote
>On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:32:30 +0000, Steve Greene
> wrote:
>
>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/01/nveil101.xml
>
>>She pointed to the way Islamic Sharia law has been interpreted. "It is
>>not laid down in the Koran that women can be beaten by their husbands or
>>that their evidence should be devalued, as it is in some Islamic
>>courts," she said.
>
>Cherry Blair should brush up on her Islamic theology before she shoots
>her mouth off:
>
>"Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior
>to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them.
>Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has
>guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish
>them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you,
>take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."
>(Koran, 4:34)
>
>"And get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two
>men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so
>that if one of them errs, the other can remind her. The witnesses
>should not refuse when they are called on."
>(Koran 2:282)
>
>Svenne
>
>
Oh no! Wait! I keep hearing people say that the koran is all love and
peace.........
Next, you'll say it sanctions violence in pursuit of islam..............
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