An Introduction to Real Islam
02 Jan, 2006
Inhuman Sharia and the Compulsion in Islam
A Glimpse of Barbaric Sharia
Allah who doesn't know even the basics of geography, biology or astronomy has made some laws as well. Sharia is god's own law according to the belief of the Muslims. Allah's favourite method of punishment is death by stoning, crucifixion and cutting off hand and feet from opposite sides. Death by stoning is a barbaric example of treatment of women still in practice in Islamic countries.
The method of execution by stoning (usually for the crime of adultery) involves burying a woman to her shoulders and then stoning her to death with rocks of a specified size. The intent behind the specification of rock size is to have the executioners not use stones that would not do enough damage nor to use larger ones which might kill or render the victim unconscious immediately; the implication of course is to inflict as much suffering as possible.
The story of a woman killed in an Iranian town Arak in 1994 has been reported on, and is one of the most horrific things humanity has possibly ever heard of. This woman (name unknown) was buried in preparation and her last request to have her husband and children sent away so as not to see her execution was denied. During the stoning, this woman managed to dig her way free, despite the fact that her eyes were gouged out, and began to run away. According to some reports, this method of escape ends the execution. This woman, however, was chased down and shot by a firing squad.
The more preferred method of death, by hanging, in which the victim is lifted by a crane instead of the more well-known gallows method, has become much more common these days in Islamic countries like Iran, and the latest girl awaiting this fate is a now 18-year-old known only by her first name, Nazanin. Her "crime" consisted of defending herself and her younger niece in 2005 from their would-be rapists on the streets. She used a knife which she carried for self-defense (this fact itself implies the state of fear in which girls and women are subjected in Islamic countries like Iran) and one of the men later died of his wounds. Despite her plea of self-defense and defense of her "purity" in court, she was still condemned to death by hanging and currently awaits this fate.
Is There Compulsion in Islam?
[From
Is There Compulsion in
Islam? You'd Better Believe It! by
Archemedez ]
Muslim apologists often say that there is no compulsion in Islam. The following two verses are enough the show what the reality is.
18:29. "Say: (It is) the truth from the Lord of you (all). Then whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers Fire. Its tent encloseth them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like to molten lead which burneth the faces. Calamitous the drink and ill the resting-place!"
2:257: "Allah is the protecting guardian of those who believe. He bringeth them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities. They bring them out of light into darkness. Such are the rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein."
The policy in the Koran isn't merely 'Believe it or not,' but instead is 'Believe it or else!' The damnation of disbelievers in 2:257 and 18:29 is consistent with Allah's policy throughout the Koran. There are at least 250 separate damnations of disbelievers in the Koran. True believing Muslims, on the other hand, are promised with the reward of Paradise and high-bosomed virgins. Verses 2:256-257 make it clear that there is compulsion in Koran-based Islamic religion. The passage is a warning for believers to stay in line, and is also a warning to disbelievers to not be disbelievers--or else! This harsh policy is consistent with many other verses in the Koran. "Allah" claims he is forgiving and merciful, and then condemns disbelievers to the hell-fires to torture them. The Koran orders Muslims to strive against, oppose, and humiliate the non-Muslims, bringing Allah's punishment to them in this world. Muslims must compel the disbelievers to accept Islam, or accept rule under Islamic Laws, or else be put to death. The idea that Koran-based Islam is without compulsion is not merely false; it is absurd.
In reality, the choice for the idolaters, pagans and heathens is either to accept Islam or face death:
[Q 9:5] But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
For the people of the book, that is the Jews, Christians and other monotheists, the choice is accept a relegated status to Islam and pay Jizyah in willing humiliation:
[Q 9:29] Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Further consultation of the following article is recommended for understanding the compulsion in Islam:
Unfettered Religious Freedom in Islam – A Fact or Fiction? - by Alamgir Hussain