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scribblingsim t1_j1tcche wrote

Reply to comment by sirthunksalot in Hardliner Clerics In Iran Demand More Executions, Amputations by aqua_zesty_man

Notice how they don’t manage to find any part of the Qu’ran to back up their “Sharia Law”?

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sirthunksalot t1_j1tfqy7 wrote

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirabah

You can argue that their use of it isn't correct but the concept is in Islam. Saudi Arabia kills people for it as well. It's like saying Baptists aren't Christian because they interpreted the Bible different Than Catholics and Catholics are right. It's all made up nonsense in the end.

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scribblingsim t1_j1vc49k wrote

The vague concept is in Islam, HOWEVER, like you said, they're interpreting it VERY loosely. Ironically, it's supposed to be more about things like terrorism, which they're strangely not interested in punishing.

I'm not saying they're not Muslim, but they ARE misusing Islam to abuse women. And I'm not saying that Christians don't do the same. They've been doing the same for many centuries, like when they took the absolutely idiotic command to "not suffer a Witch to live" and used it to their own ends to gain an insane amount of control over people and the excuse to murder any undesirables in a horrific way, either through the torture used to get them to incriminate their neighbors to make the pain stop or through burning at the stake, pressing with stones, or whatever other means of killing women they could devise. Or when they misinterpreted the Bible to go against gay people and then started murdering THEM en masse, and then later just went the "kinder" route of just persecuting the hell out of them.

Were they Christians? Oh absolutely. But they, like these assholes running Iran, knowingly twisted their religion for control through terror and should not be considered good members of their faith.

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