(Religion of Intolerance) Iran: Court rules that converts to Christianity are ‘not fit’ parents, adopted child must be taken from them

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Judge Muhammad Hassan Dashti said that Lydia faced an “uncertain future” and may spend “the rest of her life” in state care, but in the Islamic Republic of Iran, apparently that is preferable to the prospect of her being raised by Christians.



“Christian converts’ adopted child to be removed from their care,” Article 18, September 24, 2020:

Lydia was just three months old when she was adopted by Iranian Christian converts Sam Khosravi and wife Maryam Falahi.

Now, just one month before her second birthday, a court has ruled she must be taken away from them, as Sam and Maryam – who are currently appealing against convictions related to their membership of a house-church – are “not fit” to be her parents.

The ruling, handed down by a court in their home city of Bushehr, southwestern Iran, on 19 July but not reported until now, was upheld by a court of appeal on Tuesday, 22 September, despite the judge in his initial verdict acknowledging that Lydia felt an “intense emotional attachment” to her adoptive parents and saying there was “zero chance” another adoptive family would be found for her, given Lydia’s health problems.

It is now anticipated that Iran’s State and Welfare Organisation will seek to remove Lydia from Sam and Maryam’s care as soon as they are made aware of the failed appeal.

And it is with the state, Sam and Maryam fear, that Lydia is likely to remain. Indeed, in his initial verdict Judge Muhammad Hassan Dashti acknowledged that Lydia faced an “uncertain future” and may spent “the rest of her life” in state care.

But that didn’t prevent him from ruling against Lydia’s adoptive parents – and for one reason: they are Christian converts, and Lydia, though her parentage is not known, is considered a Muslim, and as such by law ought only to be cared for by Muslim parents.

Sam and Maryam maintain that they were always clear about their conversion to Christianity; however, the judge ruled that Lydia – a nominally “Muslim” child – should never have been placed in their care.
This fatwa by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most senior clerics in Iran, declares Sam and Lydia’s adoption “permissible”.

In seeking to overturn the verdict, the couple’s lawyer managed to obtain two fatwas from Grand Ayatollahs – the most senior Shia Islamic authority in Iran – declaring that, owing to the “critical nature” of the case, poor health of the child and undisputed emotional attachment with her parents, Lydia’s adoption by Christian converts was “permissible”.

But the appeal court judges, in their short ruling, made no reference to the fatwas and only declared that they were upholding the ruling as they had not been presented with any “specific or reasonable evidence” to overturn it.

In his initial ruling, Judge Dashti was clearly sympathetic, noting that “in 13 years of marriage, [Sam and Maryam] didn’t have a child to bring light and warmth to their home”, as well as bemoaning Lydia’s “uncertain future” and strong bond with her parents.

Article18’s advocacy director, Mansour Borji, explained that the wording the judge used indicated that his hands were tied.

“The verdict clearly demonstrates the unwillingness of the judge to hand down this sentence,” he said, “and that he was coerced by the representative of the Ministry of Intelligence. It is another clear example of the lack of independence of the judiciary in cases involving Christians.”…

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

all religions should be banned
solved all problems

 

[A Singaporean]

all religions should be banned
solved all problems

It is the muslims who are the trouble markers. The other religions co exist peacefully.

 

[syed putra]

At least iran practices freedom of faith wrt the parents.
In Saudi, you maybe executed.
In Malaysia, indoctrinated.
But in other arab countries, from Syria to Egypt, Lebanon, they cannot be bothered what faith you belong to. Inter religious marriage s are ok. Yasser Arafat being a Good example.
But I dont understand why couple must convert to Christianity. The whole idea of religion is for cleric class to subjugate the believers.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Christianity is growing in Iran..and should not the welfare of the child be the priority n not the religion?

 

[syed putra]

Christianity is growing in Iran..and should not the welfare of the child be the priority n not the religion?

Religion is a game of numbers. Having a adopted child of shiite stock becoming Christian is too much for for the judge to bear.

 

[whoami]

It is the muslims who are the trouble markers. The other religions co exist peacefully.

Now i know. U love CECA so much.

Christians as target during the lockdown
Ziya Us Salam


At least two reports by Christian organisations in India say that life has been precarious for the members of the minority community during the lockdowns imposed because of COVID. They were ostracised, threatened, intimidated, harassed, and in some cases fatally assaulted, the reports say. There were even instances of prayers being disrupted.

According to a report released in mid-July by the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), there were 135 cases of attack against Christian houses, churches and individuals until June this year. The EFI, founded in 1951, is an umbrella body of more than 65,000 churches across the country.


The incidents include lynching, social boycott and attempts to hinder worship. The report states: “A lynching, community ostracisation, concerted attempts to stop worship and gospel-sharing mark the 135 cases registered by the EFI in the first half of 2020.”

Says Vijayesh Lal, its general secretary: “We thought attacks on Christians would die down during the lockdown when businesses, markets, schools and colleges were closed. When nobody would venture out. But we were mistaken. The attacks on Christians increased during the lockdown. There were 33 attacks in March and 21 in June. There has been a further increase in July.”


A few days after the EFI released its report, Persecution Relief, an organisation that aims to protect the right to worship guaranteed by the Constitution, released its half-yearly report stating that hate crimes against Christians in India had risen by an alarming 40.87 per cent in spite of the nationwide lockdown. It records 293 cases of hate crimes against Christians, including five rapes and six murders, compared with 208 incidents last year.

According to Shibu Thomas, founder of Persecution Relief, the aim of the report is to draw attention to the “intensifying hostility against the Christian minority in India which has become progressively common. The cases chronicled in this report are only a fraction of the actual violence perpetuated and reported on the ground.”

According to Thomas, six murders, “influenced by religious bigotry”, were recorded in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha in the last three months. He says hate crimes have been committed against Christians in as many as 22 States in the country.

Uttar Pradesh fares worst
According to the Persecution Relief report, the maximum number of attacks against Christians (63) has been in Uttar Pradesh. That is, every fifth incident of attack on Christians in the country happened in Uttar Pradesh. Tamil Nadu came second with 28 cases, including two hate crimes resulting in death, and the burning of a church structure. Chhattisgarh accounted for 22 cases, including a rape and the murder of a widow, and Jharkhand closely followed with 21 cases and one murder. Karnataka recorded 20 cases of attacks against Christians in the first half of 2020.

The report mentions 51 hate crimes of heinous nature against women and children, of which five were rape cases. There were 37 cases of boycott and ostracisation, rendering many Christian families homeless and forcing them to hide in jungles or stay at temporary shelters or safe houses. There were 130 cases of harassment, threats and intimidation and 80 incidents of physical assault, according to the Persecution Relief report.


“Over the past seven years, India has risen from No. 31 to No. 10 in the ‘Open Doors’ World Watch List, ranking just behind Iran in persecution severity. As of 2020, the USCIRF [the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom] has listed India as a CPC (Country of Particular Concern),” says Thomas. Open Doors, its website says, is an outreach to persecuted Christians in the most high-risk places. The World Watch List is an annual report prepared by its research team.

‘Impunity in administrative apparatus’
Condemning the targeted violence against the community, the EFI has sought the immediate arrest of the purveyors of hate violence. It turned down as false the allegations of coercive conversion, which is often cited as the reason for the violence.

The EFI report states: “The absolute sense of impunity generated in the administrative apparatus of India by the lockdown during the COVID pandemic, and the consequent absence of civil society on the streets, has aggravated the environment of hate and violence against Christians in major states and the National Capital Territory.”

Cases under-reported
The reports suggest that crimes against Christians are under-reported. The police are not willing to register complaints in some cases and when they do so, the incidents seldom get reported in the media, the reports say. “With the courts being virtually closed and the police failing to record all complaints, the access to justice is severely restricted,” the report says.

Significantly, the EFI did not regard the much-reported custodial death of Bennicks and Jayaraj in Tamil Nadu in June as a case of targeted killing of Christians as propagated in some quarters. The organisation also did not read communal motives into the murder of pastor Balwinder Singh in Ferozpur in Punjab in July end.

Incidentally, both reports claimed that the most number of attacks against Christians took place under Yogi Adityanath’s rule in Uttar Pradesh. The EFI report put the number of attacks against Christians in the State at 32. In early July, one Vikash was assaulted in Azamgarh at the residence of Sunita Maurya during a prayer service. Last year, Sunita Maurya was herself subjected to physical abuse, with a hot cup of tea poured on her allegedly at a police station.


“It is difficult to control attacks these days. The poison has reached very deep, right up to the grass-roots level. Until a few years back, there was only the Bajrang Dal whose members were often involved in such attacks. Now new bodies have mushroomed,” says Lal. Apparently, groups like Abhinav Bharat, Modi Sena, Amar Sena, and Dharm Sena have a crucial role in many of the recent incidents. Their volunteers go to almost every lane, every village, and speak about conversion to whip up an anti-minority atmosphere.

The atmosphere of hatred generated by these groups, says Lal, has resulted in attacks on not just Christian houses and churches but in the disruption of private prayers too. Says Lal: “The RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh] has percolated to the grass-roots level. Until 1990 or so, the term conversion was not heard of in everyday life except maybe in the Sangh circles. But today, a mere mention of the word Christian evokes images of conversion. It is due to sustained indoctrination over a long period of time. The lockdown attacks are a manifestation of that indoctrination.”

The worst manifestation of hatred came on June 4, when a group of people crushed to death with a stone a 14-year-old boy at Odisha’s Kenduguda village in Malkangiri district and then chopped the body to pieces before burying them in several places. In the first information report (FIR), the police noted that the victim and his family had adopted Christianity three years ago and that since then, a few villagers had been harassing them. He had been attacked in February this year.

Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh
The EFI suggests that the increase in number of anti-Christian violence in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh is because of the greater confidence among the minorities to report the crime thanks to the change in political dispensation in these States. “In Chhattisgarh, now at number three from its earlier sixth position (in the crime list), the rise is attributed to Christians more willing to report violence in the Bastar region where there had been so far a blanket of fear of both underground militant Maoist forces and the armoured police,” the EFI report says.

According to it, Chhattisgarh saw six documented cases of targeted violence against Christians in April alone. This happened after Christians who were summoned to village meetings refused to participate in religious rituals against their conscience. They were apparently under pressure to recant, and when they refused to do so were assaulted.

In three separate incidents on May 5, May 7 and May 18, in Bastar and Dantewada districts, Christians faced stiff opposition to bury their dead. They were told that since they had not followed village religious rituals, they could not bury the dead there. “There have been 15 such confirmed incidents in these districts since 2019,” according to the EFI report.


Things were worse in neighbouring Jharkhand, which had earlier reported a spate of lynching incidents targeting Muslims. During lockdown this year, Christians were at the receiving end. The EFI report says: “Jharkhand saw four major assault cases in May alone. Though no one was killed, women were molested. On May 25, local authorities had banned Christians in Pundiguttu village from getting ration from the government outlet. In Jharkhand too there were cases of Christians being socially ostracised. The Pundiguttu village panchayat in May ordered the Christian converts to rejoin their parent faith at pain of being denied water from the community well and other penalties.”

The Pundiguttu case brings to memory the attempted Ghar Wapsi incident in Agra in 2014 when some Muslim families were sought to be lured to Hinduism with sacks of wheat and rice.

Increasing violence
The attacks on Christians are becoming increasingly common. In 2014, Bajrang Dal activists attacked 12 pastors in Greater Noida in western Uttar Pradesh during a private meeting. At the local police station they were advised to discontinue the meeting. In 2017, goons attacked a Christian woman putting her kids to sleep after prayer in Dalli Rajhara in Chhattisgarh and asked her not to pray.

“While the churches have often been attacked in the past, now it is becoming increasingly difficult even to offer prayers even in private. There are objections to Sunday prayers at home. The malaise is much deeper in the interiors and tribal areas. Even a regular prayer is considered a step towards conversion. First a prayer is attacked. Then a social boycott follows,” says Lal, adding that “most of the attacks are by local people. They are mostly OBCs [Other Backward Classes] who have been brainwashed by self-styled outfits like the Abhinav Bharat and the Modi Sena, besides the Bajrang Dal.”

‘Government in denial’
Activist and veteran journalist John Dayal puts the findings of the various Christian bodies in perspective: “Five murders of Christians in the COVID-impacted first six months of 2020 mark a new high in the viciousness of targeted hate against the community. Not since the pogrom in 2007-08 in Kandhamal district of Odisha have so many people died for professing the Christian faith. That they include pastors, young boys and women adds to the tragedy. The half-yearly reports by Persecution Relief and Evangelical Fellowship of India spell out the gravity of the targeted violence against Christians in India. The government is not just in denial, but positively on the side of the assailants, it would seem. The ruling party’s cadres where it is in power enjoy immunity, but surprisingly even where other ideologies govern States, the Sangh and its groups are aggressive and seem to defy the law. The international organisations, including the UN bodies, seem helpless in the face of government obduracy and the ruling party using the nationalistic rhetoric and sovereignty argument to insulate itself from all international inspection and exhortation.”

According to Dayal, the data “as reported by the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Morning Star News and the Persecution Relief” carry authenticity to the numbers reported.

Lal says there have been instances when policemen have asked peaceful worshippers, including pastors, not to go ahead with their religious meeting, saying it is not allowed in “Hindu Rashtra”. “Are we still ruled by the Constitution or the mob which attacked houses, desecrated churches, objected to gospel-sharing even during the lockdown?” he asks.

 

[zeebjii]

It is the muslims who are the trouble markers. The other religions co exist peacefully.

hahaha

 

[whoami]

It is the muslims who are the trouble markers. The other religions co exist peacefully.

OK. CECA lover. Another one for u. Gang raped the minorities


A woman died in hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, weeks after authorities said she was raped by a group of men, triggering protests and opposition criticism over what it said was a failure to protect women.

Her case was the latest in a string of gruesome crimes against women in India that have given it the dismal reputation of being one of the worst places in the world to be female.

One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to the latest government data released in January.

“There is next to no protection for women. Criminals are openly committing crimes,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of the opposition Congress party, said on Twitter.

The 19-year-old victim, belonging to the Dalit community – formerly known as “untouchables” – was attacked and raped on September 14 at a field near her home in Hathras district, 100km (62-mile) from New Delhi, authorities said.

Police have arrested four men in connection with the crime.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/29/india-protests-after-dalit-woman-dies-weeks-after-gang-rape

 

[duluxe]

Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.

Then there was Safiyya bint Huyayy. Muhammad killed her father and her husband during the raid on the Jews at Khaybar. After the massacre was completed, on the way out of Khaybar that night, Muhammad halted his caravan as soon as they were outside the oasis, pitched a tent, and “consummated the marriage.” Remember, her father and brother had just been killed, and then she was raped by their killer.

 

[whoami]

The Bible’s Most Hideous War Crime
By David Plotz


Chapter 28 and Chapter 29
Holiday time—what a bloodbath! These chapters specify all the animal sacrifices required for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. The Tabernacle was practically an abattoir. Goriest of all is Sukkot, which calls for: seven goats, 14 rams, 70 bulls, and 98 lambs. It’s supposed to be a jolly harvest festival, but it sounds more like one of those all-you-can-eat Brazilian barbecues.

Chapter 30
In the last entry I described the Lord’s decision to allow daughters without brothers to inherit property as a landmark in women’s rights. Several readers rebuked me, arguing that this was a pretty meager recognition for women. Maybe they’re right, given that Numbers is already treating women as nonpeople again. The subject is contract law. The chapter asks: When do you have to keep a promise? Any time a man makes a promise, he must keep it. But if an unmarried woman makes a promise, her father can override it, and if a married woman makes a promise, the husband can veto it. The law is not completely infantilizing: The father and husband get only one brief opportunity to veto the female promise. If they don’t object quickly, the promise stands. And promises made by widows and divorcees have the same force as any man’s.


Chapter 31

Here is most hideous war crime in a Bible filled with them. As with the story of Dinah, it is sexual misbehavior that spurs the ugliest, evilest biblical vengeance. At the start of the chapter, God tells Moses he must complete one more task before he dies: taking vengeance against the Midianites. Why? For the fairly piddling crime described in Chapter 25. God was threatening punishment for Israelites who’d been whoring with Moabite women. At that very moment, an Israelite walked by the Tent of Meeting with his Midianite girlfriend. Phineas speared the couple to death. God, delighted by Phineas’ zealotry, stops the plague he had sent against the Israelites as punishment for their lechery. Even so, 24,000 Israelites die. For reasons I can’t understand, God and Moses hold the entire Midianite nation responsible for this mess, and they want payback. If you ask me—and Moses didn’t–the Bible is willfully ignoring the obvious point. It was the Moabite women, not the Midianite women, who did the dreadful whoring that provoked God’s rage and the plague. Going after the Midianites to punish a Moabite crime is as nonsensical as the United States invading Iraq to teach al-Qaida a lesson. (Oh, wait. We did that.)

Moses dispatches his army, which quickly kills the five Midianite kings and slaughters all the Midianite men. (This is not the war crime, but rather everyday policy.) The Israelites capture all the Midianite women and children and march them back to camp. Moses is furious that the Midianite women have been spared. (This chapter also fails to mention that Moses himself is married to a Midianite woman!) Moses orders his troops to execute all the Midianite boys and all the Midianite females except for the virgins. Isn’t this a kind of sick, grotesquely disproportionate atrocity? It’s collective punishment of a most repellent sort—and all to take revenge for the one bad date between an Israelite and a Midianite girl! Numbers informs us, with its usual fondness for precision, that 32,000 virgin females survive the mass execution (and were then enslaved, incidentally). By my rough estimate, this means the Israelites killed more than 60,000 captive, defenseless women and boys.


Let’s pause for a second to consider Moses’ rage, which I find almost incomprehensible. For most of the last three books, Moses has been restraining God. The Lord loses his temper with His disobedient people, and Moses persuades Him to show mercy. But God is on the sidelines during the Midianite slaughter: It is Moses who’s bloodthirsty. Where does his new anger come from? Is it the fury of a frustrated old man who’s been barred from his Promised Land? Is it the homicidal megalomania that descends on so many dictators who hold power too long?


What is particularly poignant is that Moses himself seems to know that this massacre of innocents is wrong. He orders his death squads to stay outside of camp after they finish their butchery. They need a week away from the Tabernacle to purify themselves. The Bible never mentions such a quarantine for Israelite soldiers after other battles. But, as Moses recognizes, these killings are not war, they are murder, and they defile his people.


Chapter 32

The Midianite massacre isn’t the only incident of Moses spinning out of control. This chapter, too, suggests he is getting a little paranoid as his final days approach. Here Gad and Reuben—both successful herding tribes—ask Moses if they can make their home in the good rangeland east of the Jordan and not settle in the Promised Land with everyone else. Moses explodes at them, accusing them of sabotaging the settlement of the new land, undermining the army, demoralizing their fellow Israelites, and turning their back on God.


Moses’ indignation comes from nowhere and seems entirely undeserved. Gad and Reuben immediately mollify him—they promise to be the “shock troops” that will lead the army. Only when Canaan is conquered, they vow, will they return east of the Jordan to their settlements. Moses grudgingly agrees, but threatens divine vengeance if they don’t fight hard. Again, it’s hard not to feel that the brilliant and humane prophet who has dominated the Torah is slipping away, and that he has suddenly become an old, angry, vindictive tyrant.


Chapter 33

This chapter lists every place the Israelites have camped during their 40 years in the wilderness. It’s dull as dishwater to read, but it serves a fascinating purpose. At the end of the list, God issues his orders to the Israelites: Cross into Canaan, smash the idols, dispossess all the inhabitants, and take, settle, and tame the land for themselves. Had the chapter skipped the travelogue and begun with God’s fearsome instructions, it would seem brutal. The 40-year-itinerary—the weary, heartbreaking journey—serves as a reminder to the Israelites of their suffering, and, more importantly, as a justification for conquest. Why is it all right to sack and destroy another civilization? Why is it fair to seize land and settle it? Because of what the Israelites endured, that’s why. The 40-year accounting explains Israel. It says: You’ve earned it.


Chapter 34

Moses describes the boundaries of the land they’re about to conquer, and as I read it, it’s a close match to Israel today, with a couple of major exceptions. It counts all of what’s now the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israelite territory—which may be one reason that some observant Jews are so reluctant to surrender those lands to the Palestinians.


Chapter 35

The Bible has told us about all kinds of laws and punishments but hasn’t explained how those laws would be enforced, until now. This chapter lays out rules for “cities of refuge,” where you can hide if you’ve killed someone. Anyone can seek asylum in these six designated cities while they await judgment of the “assembly” as to whether they’re guilty of murder or manslaughter. If convicted of manslaughter, he is allowed to stay in the city of refuge and is eventually absolved and freed to go home after the high priest anoints him. If he’s found guilty of murder—which has to be intentional—then the “blood-avenger,” a family member of the victim, is entitled to kill him.


This criminal justice system is a curious and perhaps unstable mix of personal vengeance and government power. The state creates laws, safe havens, and institutions of justice—an assembly that issues a verdict—but the state doesn’t punish. It leaves the sentence in the hands of the victim’s family. It’s an admirable arrangement in some respects, because it aspires to fair justice. (For example, the chapter also specifies that you can’t be convicted of murder without the testimony of two witnesses—more rigorous than our own justice system). Even so, I doubt it worked. I just read a great book, Blood and Roses, which is partly about how a medieval England’s very similar justice system failed: Powerful people were able to get away with terrible crimes because no one would dare to carry out the sentences against them. I assume the Israelite system suffered from the same flaw. It’s only when the state acquires a monopoly on violence that the responsibility for punishment can pass from victim to government.


Chapter 36

The last chapter in Numbers, and my favorite character, Noa, appears for a brief coda. She and her sisters won the right to inherit property back in Chapter 27. But now Moses narrows the ruling. Some of Noa’s tribal elders are worried that if she and her sisters marry outside their tribe of Manasseh, their land will pass out of the tribe’s control. This wouldn’t be fair, the elders tell Moses. He agrees—land may not pass from one tribe to another. So Moses orders Noa and her sisters to marry men from their own tribe. I don’t know what my tribe is (Washingtonians? Journalists?), but to my own daughter Noa I make this promise: You can marry whomever you want, sweetie.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...umbers-the-bibles-most-hideous-war-crime.html

 

[duluxe]

QURAN - 70:22-30

"Not so the worshippers, who are steadfast in prayer, who set aside a due portion of their wealth for the beggar and for the deprived, who truly believe in the Day of Reckoning and dread the punishment of their Lord (for none is secure from the punishment of their Lord); who restrain their carnal desire (save with their wives and their slave girls, for these are lawful to them: he that lusts after other than these is a transgressor..."

This verse shows that Muslim men were allowed to have sex with their wives (of course) and their slave girls.

Muhammad and his followers fought many battles. Some were offensive some were defensive. Following a victory the Muslims would take captives, or prisoners of war. Muhammad would usually distribute the captives, both male and female, as slaves to his soldiers. Islam provides some basic rights to its slaves but these rights are limited. Naturally, the rights or demands of the slave owner were greater than those of the slaves.

Female slaves were used for primarily for work. But they also provided another' service' to their male masters ....

 

[whoami]

"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18)

 

[whoami]

So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. (Judges 21:10-24)

If everyone is killed except the virgin girls, and the virgin girls are forced to become “wives” to the men who wiped out their families, that is a form of sex slavery. As we will see below, the "wives" were not really wives, but could be put out on the street if the "men of God" grew tired of them:

They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men ... Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded ... Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)

If everyone is killed except the virgin girls, and the men who did the killing can keep the virgin girls “for themselves,” it seems more than obvious what will happen to the girls, who will serve the conquering warriors as sex slaves.

 

[A Singaporean]

All religions except Muslims are living in the 21th century. Muslims are still stuck in the stone age.

 

[syed putra]

Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.

Then there was Safiyya bint Huyayy. Muhammad killed her father and her husband during the raid on the Jews at Khaybar. After the massacre was completed, on the way out of Khaybar that night, Muhammad halted his caravan as soon as they were outside the oasis, pitched a tent, and “consummated the marriage.” Remember, her father and brother had just been killed, and then she was raped by their killer.

Nonsense. Believers are forbidden kill.

 

[duluxe]

Nonsense. Believers are forbidden kill.

Can believers kill to spread Islam?

Believers cannot eat pork, can their super holey Prophet consume beacon?

 

[duluxe]

All religions except Muslims are living in the 21th century. Muslims are still stuck in the stone age.

The new testament is the new covenant, he quotes the old testament for fcuk. Jesus did not womanize, kill or rape unlike the prophet of Islam. What has ISlam done for mankind in the 21th century?