Quote:Wow FD you even cherry pick my posts.
I am pointing out your self contradictions Gandalf. I am hardly going to pick randomly am I?
Quote:I am extremely sceptical that stoning is part of shariah law - and given that the practice is so rare as to be virtually non-existent in the islamic world today (and I'm pretty sure has been for a long long time), it would seem the great majority of the muslim world agrees with me
Except of course all those scholars:
Quote:Adultery - a crime under islamic law in which the sentence is either stoning or flogging - depending on which islamic scholars you follow.
Also, this is the same tired old Taqiyya you and other Muslims peddle constantly. The absence of a particular punishment today from 99% of Muslim countries does not mean that 99% of Muslims reject that particular punishment. It is a logical fallacy, and the Pew survey clearly disproves it. Much of modern Muslim 'civilisation' owes itself to outside influence. It was foreign interference for example, not Muslims, that nearly brought an end to traditional Islamic slavery, despite protestations from Muslims that Islam 'encourages' the freeing of slaves. I was going to let this one slide, but you might accuse me of cherry picking if I ignore it.
Basically, you claim to represent the majority of Muslims, but you have no clue what the majority of Muslims think, and your own views on Islam are all over the place and wrapped in endless deflections. Your backpedaling reflects your unwillingness to clarify any of this, because clarity will always reflect badly on Islam and Muslims.
Why don't you use the Pew survey to find out exactly how closely your own views match those of other Muslims? Or is it a bit hard to answer when "it depends on which scholar you ask" (or what audience you are pandering to) is not one of the options?
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