TerrbleSpellor said:
But it doesn't just apply to all males and females. Are you telling me that more women commit adultery then men, and hence they are executed more then men?
I don't know if women commit more adultery than men. Maybe they just get caught more, maybe they do in fact commit more adultery than men, maybe the legal procedures carried out in certain countries with regards to adultery is corrupt (as you would probably suggest)....... but notice I say the legal procedure and not the actual law.
TerrbleSpellor said:
Of course not. Name one man who has ever been executed for adultery? I can't name any women, but i've seen plenty of photoes and vids to prove it.
I'll name a few: Ruhollah G, Mohammad Saadat Fath, Nader Ebrahimi, Ali Farsameh and Davoud Jafari.
Sources:
http://www.indymedia.nl/en/2003/02/8980.shtml,
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130512004?open&of=ENG-392
TerrbleSpellor said:
I've never seen a male adulteror dug into a whole and stoned to death in an online movie ..............
Like yourself, I've only seen videos of women being stoned/hung (with the exception of one video where it was a man who was receiving capital punishment). However, like you, I live in the West and am thus surrounded by Western media. A major reason why you don't see reportage of males stoned to death is because many people such as yourself have preconceived assumptions along the lines of only women being stoned to death, that women in Islam are oppressed etc etc etc. The media plays on these ideas of people by mainly focusing on the execution of women, hence obtaining ratings/selling papers/whatever. It's also an emotional thing. Society generally tends to view women as more 'delicate'. For example, we are generally more saddened at the murder/bashing/rape of a woman than we are of a man. Or if we want to save people's lives, we'll probably save the women and children first and then the men.
TerrbleSpellor said:
Because men can do no wrong in Islam, can they?
This is incorrect. Nearly all of the really bad people recorded in the history of Islam were men eg: Yazid (la), Muawiya (la), Abu sufyan (la). Some really bad men are named in the quran, including Firaun (la) and Abu lahab (la) for their wrong doings.
TerrbleSpellor said:
Well.. no wrong unless they have freedom of thought. That is an unforgivable sin.
On the contrary, thinking/reflecting/pondering/discussing are actually highly encouraged in Islam. There is even a hadith which states that ''one hour of thinking is better than a year of worship''.