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Saudis to execute gays who show their sexuality in public and online

Mar 30, 2016 11:23 am By Robert Spencer

The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.” (Qur’an 7:80-84)

Muhammad specifies the punishment for this in a hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.'” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)

And so one Muslim cleric, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, concluded: “God is very straightforward about this — not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law — it’s the Koran.”

homosexuality death penalty

“Saudi government ‘wants to EXECUTE gay people who show their sexuality in public & online,'” by Charlie Peat, Express, March 30, 2016:

SAUDI law makers could impose the death penalty on gay people who show their sexuality in public and on social media, according to reports.

The government in the Sunni Kingdom is reportedly demanding tougher punishments on those found guilty and claimed social media has caused a boom in homosexuality.

According to Okaz newspaper, the last six months has seen 35 cases of homosexuality and 50 cases of cross-dressers as well as cases of “sexual perversion” in Saudi Arabia.

The judiciary reportedly also claimed there has been a large rise in “perverts” displaying “sins and obscenities” on social media in the Sunni Kingdom.

It comes after a Saudi man was arrested this week when he raised the rainbow flag outside his home in Jeddah.

The doctor was arrested by religious police within hours of hoisting the flag in the port city.

But he was released shortly afterwards when he claimed he had no idea what the pride flag symbolised.

In addition, Okaz reported that a man in his 50s was arrested for making sexual advances to men online.

He allegedly begged for forgiveness during the police interrogation and said he would not do it again.

The calls from the law makers has seen a backlash on social media with some using the hashtag #I_am_gay_will_not_be_deterred.

One tweeted: “I stand with the Saudi Arabian LGBT community.”…

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  1. nicu says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:26 am

    They prefer men themselves these f***hypocrites ! women are only for breeding – guys for fun !

    • jihad3tracker says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 11:32 am

      And goats are for ecstasy.

    • LynnZ says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 2:14 pm

      You mean little boys.

    • Gary says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      Now now…. Please allow muslims the luxury of playing God.

      After all, Mohammad, (Peace be upon him), loved little girls.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:30 am

    The internet is, of course a worldwide candy store of ALL EROTIC FLAVORS — whatever your preference is, finding it is just a few clicks away.

    The House of Saud must keep giant size bottles of migraine tables in every one of the their medicine cabinets to cope with this problem.

    And, without any doubt, what they do IN PRIVATE would get them hung if an ordinary commoner got caught trying identical amusements.

  3. gungfugilman says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:34 am

    People say with a straight face Saudi is our ally. As the old saying goes “With friends like these…

    • Stacy Brand says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:41 pm

      A “Staunch Ally”, according to ex-President GW Bush.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 1:51 am

      Yes–it is grotesque that we consider these savages our “allies”.

  4. Angemon says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:41 am

    Iran hangs them from construction cranes. The Islamic State tosses them from buildings. Now that Saudi Arabia caught up with them, what’s it going to be? A good, old-fashioned severing of the head? Tumbling a wall on them? Islam has a long history of horrific ways to murder people to pick from…

    • miriamrove says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:02 pm

      Mean while it is islamic to rape and sodomize a 9 year old girl and it is Islamic to f… a dead woman up to 8 hours sfter her death but is unislamic for two consetual adult male to have sex. m

  5. Jay Boo says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Aren’t we just as bad?
    Denying public bathroom access by transgender men to use the ladies room is even worse than public executions because the lawmakers in North Carolina are not even Muslim and therefore do not have an automatic exclusion to criticize non-standard sexuallity.

    North Carolina in battle over the use of public bathrooms.
    Should a man in a wig be allowed to use a women’s bathroom?
    Women are afraid of rapists in drag.
    ACLU up in arms

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/nc-discriminatory-law-bigger-which-bathroom-you-can-use-n546746

    • bclomptwihm says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      How can you compare not being able to use a certain bathroom to being killed? are you saying that gays should be killed instead?

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 1:11 pm

        I thought that my sarcasm was obvious.
        I will try to remember the (sarc) tag next time

        • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

          Mar 30, 2016 at 8:37 pm

          That’s a relief Jay! I was thinking the body-snatchers had gotten a hold of you!

    • miriamrove says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:31 pm

      You are mixing apples and oranges here. What is happening in NC what Muslims are doing are way different. NC is not advocating murder, destruction, bombing etc….Besides most transgenders are heterosexual and should not be allowed in women room. m

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2016 at 1:53 am

        Jay Boo was being sarcastic, miriam.

        OT: how is your dear son doing?

  6. Jerry says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    This is the kind of barbarity I’ve come to expect from this phony faith. Islam’s agenda is not for humanity, it is strong-arm fascism in the name of religion. It has no wisdom where wisdom matters most. It has no love where love proves its mettle. It has no tolerance except for its own bigoted hatefulness. It is a paradigm of evil against us all. Their religion speaks it and the faithful live it. And that’s why so many innocents are suffering and dying for that faith. It is a dark heart in the soul of man around which all muslims gather. Some are closer than others. But all are warmed by the cockles of its darkness and hate. And I find that very, very, frightening.

    • Jerry says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:35 pm

      A painfully close topic is the rape of children in “marriage.” Muslims kill gays for their same-sex love, but they compel children to satisfy the sexual urges of their pig-masters. That’s islam, a demon morality not fit for planet earth.

      • billybob says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 7:15 pm

        Wow! It will take sometime to digest all that. Thanks for the link.

        • Alan James says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 2:55 pm

          These things do happen over there and some women in North America still complain about abuse and unfair treetment. Really they have to see this video to realize that they should be happy they live in North America and not in yemen or saudi Arabia.
          I would run away as best as I can from all this.
          So where is Oprah and Obama now? Hiding of coarse.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2016 at 1:57 am

        I remember this case. Brave little girl. For some victims, things are even more horrific:

        “Afghanistan: 8-year-old bride of mullah bleeds to death on her wedding night”

        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/afghanistan-8-year-old-bride-of-mullah-bleeds-to-death-on-her-wedding-night

      • sham says

        Mar 31, 2016 at 1:13 pm

        ISLAM & MARRIAGE

        [017:034] Come not nigh to the orphan’s property except to improve it, until he attains the ”age of full strength”; and fulfill (every) ”engagement”, for (every) engagement will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).[MARRIAGE IS AN ENGAGEMENT]
        024:059] But when the children among you ”come of age”, let them (also) ask for ”permission”, as do those senior to them (in age): Thus does God make clear His Signs to you: for God is full of knowledge and wisdom.
        24:58. O you who believe! Let your legal slaves and slave-girls, and those among you who have not come to the *******age of puberty ask your permission******* (before they come to your presence) on three occasions;
        Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 86 :: Hadith 101

        Narrated ‘Aisha:

        Allah’s Apostle said, “It is essential to have the *****consent of a virgin (for the marriage)****. I said, “A virgin feels shy.” The Prophet; said, “Her silence means her consent.” Some people said, “If a man falls in love with an orphan slave girl or a virgin and she refuses (him) and then he makes a trick by bringing two false witnesses to testify that he has married her, and then ****she attains the age of puberty ******and agrees to marry him and the judge accepts the false witness and the husband knows that the witnesses were false ones, he may consummate his marriage.”
        Men/women acquire the knowledge of sex after the puberty:
        Sayyidah Aisha said: When a girl is nine years old, she is a woman (meaning, she has attained puberty).‘ (Tirmidhi, Hadith 1109)
        Women permission required for marriage:
        Dawud :: Book 11 : Hadith 2091
        Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:

        A virgin came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and mentioned that her father had married her against her will, so the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) allowed her to exercise her choice.
        Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 86 :: Hadith 99,98,100, 101
        Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 85 :: Hadith 78,79
        Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 51 :: Hadith 25
        Muslim :: Book 8 : Hadith 3303 ,3305,3306,3307,3308
        Dawud :: Book 11 : Hadith 2076, 2077,2088,2091,2095
        PROPHET MUHAMMAD SA SAYS
        Dawud :: Book 29 : Hadith 3952
        Narrated AbuHurayrah:

        The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: **************The child of adultery is worst of the three.**************

        ACCORDING THE ABOVE LAW ISLAM AGREED MARRIAGE WITH GIRL 1)HER PERMISSION REQUIRED (MORAL) 2) SHE PASSED HER PUBERTY LEVEL(SCIENTIFIC)

        CHALLENGE :

        IS ANY RELIGION ON EARTH (EXCEPT ISLAM) THAT AGREED /PROMOTE TWO CONDITION OF MARRIAGE (GIRL PERMISSION,PUBERTY) IS THERE ,PLZ BRING IT TO HERE & PROVE IT WITH SCRIPTURES EVIDENCE WE 1.7 BILLIONS MUSLIM READY TO ACCEPT THAT RELIGION /CULTURE,PLZ BRING IT ,ONLY ” ONE IS ENOUGH ” “ONLY ONE VERSES IS ENOUGH ”
        BRING IT HERE ………U’R COUNTDOWN TIME START NOW ……I WAN TO SEE A COURAGEOUS NON MUSLIM ANYWHERE ON EARTH……….

        PLZ ADVICE THOSE REAL PEDOPHILES :
        Child sex tourism :

        Thailand : 40% of prostitutes are child in Thailand
        Northern Italy: 40% of prostitution affects minors.
        Cambodia: 1/3 of prostitutes are child
        India : 1.2 million child prostitutes
        Brazil: 1.2 million child prostitutes
        United States: Between 244,000 to 325,000 child prostitutes.
        China: It is estimated that there are between 200,000 and 500,000 child prostitutes.
        Mexico:16,000 children in Mexico were involved in prostitution
        Sri Lanka, there are nearly 40,000 child prostitutes
        In the Philippines, there are 60,000 to 100,000 prostituted children
        In Nepal approximately 30% of them were found to be children.
        in Vietnam, and 20,000 of these are children.
        in Ukraine, research has shown that between 30 and 40 percent of prostitutes are between 11 and 18 years
        in Russia approximately 20 to 25 percent of Moscow’s sex workers are minors.
        wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_tourism
        wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_of_children

        • Champ says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 1:22 pm

          “ISLAM & MARRIAGE”

          Just what we need, advice on “marriage” from the shim-sham-man. No thank you.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:26 pm

      Muslims do all this to please Allah

      Someone — Please call in the termites.
      Muhammad’s nose is poking out of the ground again.
      It is time to turn that Islamic Pinochio into a pile of termite sawdust snack

      • Jerry says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 4:01 pm

        “Muslims do all this to please Allah”

        That’s true, but I think there’s a larger truth here. I think they do it more to please their own unbridled lust for sex and power. Raping, beating women, cutting throats, discriminating, it comes from their base nature that values selfish desires above the rights of others. It’s less a religion and more a sickness, to me. Letting this crud in will not make America a better nation and people. It will make us a gutter of bad morals and lost freedoms. Speaking out against it is the only thing decent people can do. The rest are too busy making excuses.

  7. Don McKellar says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:29 pm

    And the difference between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State is … what’s the difference again?

    • ECAW says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:56 pm

      IS don’t like kings. Oh dear.

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Mullah, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, concluded: “God is …not subjective”. How does he know that? Let’s examine that claim…

    Discriminatory Sharia law comes from humans who read the Koran and hadiths hundreds of years after Mohammed died. The hadiths are the result of 250 years of hear-say reports, none of which can be verified. Furthermore, the Koran is also hearsay, but the hearsay of hearsay…Mohammed heard from Gabriel who supposedly heard from Allah. How can we know who Gabriel was? How can we know if ‘Gabriel’ was not a dream or nightmare in Mohammed’s brain? We can’t. That’s not subjective?

    Mohammed didn’t actually ‘hear’ anything with his ears, because he had an impression of a message within his mind only.

    Could the impressions or dreams in Mohammed’s mind be considered ‘SUBJECTIVE’?

    As far as I can see, all of Islam is ‘subjective’ and based on the unverifiable subjectivity of one man….who was as amoral as one can be. Who would ever trust a bandit, highwayman, pedophile or pirate to be ‘objective’?

  9. Malcolm Jackson says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 1:09 pm

    If homosexuality and bestiality are going to be punished by death, then there won’t be many Muslims left in Saudi Arabia.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:20 pm

      True

      All Muslim men are homosexuals including Muhammad.
      Most are in the closet, but all Muslim men without exception are homosexuals.
      Women in Islam are merely sexual surrogates purchased to veil the rampant homosexual nature so inherent in Islam. Women are bought and sold as brides.

      Just look at Islam the most penis worshipping cult on earth.

  10. Charli Main says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    and these vile, child raping, goat sodomising hypocritical, two faced vermin have the effrontery to sit on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

  11. islam :- the hateful religion of scum says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    Why is it OK to rape small boys but not be gay ??

  12. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    However…though gay sex is ‘bad’ in Soddy Barbaria, it isn’t ‘gay’ if it’s with a little boy before his puberty.

    The revered scholar of Islam, al-Nawawi had no problem with gay sex. Al-Nawawi listed, without any criticism, sex acts after which ritual washing is required. Without proper washing, prayers are not heard by Allah. The sex acts include sex with animals, sex with children (male and female), homosexual sex, willing sex and “FORCEFUL” sex, (which would be rape of male or female kafirs and/or young boys and girls). He also includes use of phalluses “severed” from live persons or animals. What is astounding is that his main concern in the text is proper washing to ensure ritual purity before prayer, rather than the immoral and cruel acts he has described, which he seems to think require no comment. It is obvious that al-Nawawi saw sex with children, little boys, little girls, animals, other men as totally normative for every good, pious Muslim. Such cruel sex acts did not stop prayers from being “accepted” by Allah. It was the perpetrators’ failure to wash following them that made them impure.

  13. Jandre Kroeze says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    https://saboteur365.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/obama-as-female-gif.gif

  14. Bryan Ranger says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    So what took them so long. KSA is being undermined by ISIS who throws their gays off the roofs. After all it was the US government that forced the Saudis to have gay porn in their country.

  15. gravenimage says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 2:00 am

    “Marrying” little 9-year-old girls, raping and executing virgin prisoners, using Infidels as sex slaves, sodomizing prepubescent boys, all of this is OK–but consensual gay sex? For that you have to die.

    God, I hate Islam.

  16. citycat says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 3:27 am

    “execute gay people who show their sexuality in public”
    but not Muslims who rape infidel women
    So the Qur’an is hypocritical then.
    Who would have thought it

  17. Mike Turner says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 10:19 am

    I for one have no problem and agree with islam on this 100%

    Now we are being forced to allow men who ‘identify’ as women to have access to women’s rest rooms, dressing rooms, etc.

    The lgbt agenda has poisoned society.

  18. sham says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    BIBLE SAYS

    “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. (From the NIV Bible, Leviticus 20:13)”

    Diseases Related To Homosexuality
    December 14, 2009 editor
    Diseases Related To Homosexuality
    1. Mental Illness

    In October 1999, the Archives of General Psychiatry published two studies related to homosexuality and mental health. The first, “Sexual Orientation and Suicidality: A Co-twin Control Study in Adult Men” by Richard Herrel et al, reported that same-gender sexual orientation is significantly associated with each of the suicidality measures. The study found that men with same-sex partners were 2.4 times as likely as their co-twins to have thoughts about death, 4.4 times as likely to want to die, 4.1 times as likely to have suicidal ideation, 6.5 times as likely to have attempted suicide, and 5.1 times as likely to have any of the suicidal symptoms. After adjustment for substance abuse and depressive symptoms (other than suicidality), all of the suicidality measures remained significantly associated with same-gender sexual orientation except for wanting to die.

    The second study, “Homosexuality and Mental Illness” by J. Michael Bailey, reported on a New Zealand study which followed 1007 individuals since birth. At the age of 21, the 28 subjects classified as gay, lesbian or bisexuals were significantly more likely to have had mental-health problems than the 979 classed as heterosexual.
    The Archives of General Psychiatry also published in its January 2001 issue a study titled, “Same-Sex Sexual Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders: Findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS)” by Sandfort et al., which found that psychiatric disorders were more prevalent among homosexually active people compared with heterosexually active people. Homosexual men were 2.94 times as likely to have a 12-month prevalence of mood disorder and 2.61 times as likely to have a 12-month prevalence of anxiety disorder than heterosexual men. Homosexual women were 4.05 times as likely to have a 12-month prevalence of substance use disorders than heterosexual women. More homosexual than heterosexual persons had 2 or more disorders during their lifetimes.
    It should be noted that Dutch society is a very gay-affirming and gay-friendly society, which may suggest that “society’s oppression” of homosexual people is not necessarily the cause of increased rates of mental illnesses among homosexuals as some people might suggest.
    2. Kaposi Sarcoma
    In an indirect fashion, anal intercourse is implicated in the development of Kaposi’s sarcoma, one of the diseases on the AIDS-indicator list of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This is because nitrite inhalant recreational drugs, known commonly as “poppers”, have been popular in the gay community and are used to facilitate this practice through relaxation of the anal sphincter. Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse have recognized that nitrite inhalant abuse is associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma, and HIV-negative gay men with a history of using poppers have developed this disease.
    The International Journal of Dermatology explains why homosexuals’ behaviors place them at high risk for this disease, which affects the mucous membranes and the skin of its victims:
    In this high risk group [the gay male population], the predominant portal of entry of free and cell-bound HIV as well as the brunt of associated cofactors and opportunistic infections can be traced to both ends of the gastrointestinal tract (mouth and anus) and also the genitalia, which happen to be common sites for KS lesions in addition to their lymphatic watersheds.
    Kaposi’s sarcoma has taken a particularly tragic toll on HIV-infected homosexual men, sending them to an earlier grave than their IV-drug user counterparts. AIDS reports:
    According to our data, homosexual men had a significantly higher risk of progression to AIDS and shorter survival compared with IDU [IV drug users] and other categories. In a multivariate analysis the increased risk was found to be independent of demographic and clinical characteristics but was accounted for by the higher probability of developing Kaposi’s sarcoma.
    3. Hodgkin’s Disease
    Homosexual men suffering from HIV/AIDS also suffer from other cancers and lymphomas. One study published in the Annuls of Medicine noted the connection between homosexual AIDS patients and Hodgkin’s disease. The study concluded, “An excess incidence of Hodgkin’s disease was found in HIV-infected homosexual men.” The Journal of Clinical Oncology published a study that further supports a connection between homosexual male AIDS patients and Hodgkin’s disease.
    4. Anal Cancer
    Homosexual males are also at elevated risk for anal cancer. A likely possibility is that chemicals in the lubricants used to facilitate anal intercourse are a factor associated with this disease. Researchers R.J. Ablin and R. Stein-Werblowsky describe sperm and seminal plasma as capable of promoting cancer, and suggest that this accounts for the increase in cancer among people practicing anal sex.
    One article in the New England Journal of Medicine commented, “Our study lends strong support to the hypothesis that homosexual behavior in men increases the risk of anal cancer: 21 of the 57 men with anal cancer (37 percent) reported that they were homosexual or bisexual, in contrast to only one of 64 controls.” The Journal of the American Medical Association also published similar findings: “Epidemiological studies have shown that risk factors for anal cancer include homosexuality, history of receptive anal intercourse, presence of anal condylomata, and smoking.” And the International Journal of Cancer stated, “Being single and having practiced anal intercourse appears to be associated with anal cancer and case reports have suggested a recent increase in the number of cases of anal cancer.”
    Another article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that, “…studies indicate that immunosuppressed male homosexuals have a high prevalence of anal human papilomavirus infection and anal intra-epithelial neoplasia, and this population may be at significant risk for the development of anal cancer.”
    Along the same lines, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded: “Anal intercourse may predispose to anal cancer through the transmission of an infection, most probably infection with human papillomavirus.”
    5. Impairment of Immune Response
    Several researchers have concerned themselves with the immune dysfunction consequent to the direct entry of semen into the bloodstream by means of anal intercourse. Joseph Sonnabend has argued that repeated exposures to semen combined with various sexually transmitted disease pathogens result in impairment of immune response. Robert Root-Bernstein concluded that exposure to semen through anal intercourse can initiate lymphocytotoxic autoimmunity. Another researcher who recognizes the pathogenic effects of semen is Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos (Department of Medical Physics, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia), author of “Looking Back on the Oxidative Stress Theory of AIDS” published in Continuum volume 5, number 5 – mid-winter 1999.
    6. AIDS
    The CDC reports in its June 2000 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report that men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the majority of AIDS cases in the United States.

  19. sham says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    SPREADING/ENCOURAGING THESE SEXUAL VULGARITY AND DECEASE TO SOCIETY IS MORALITY?
    Any penal law can be said to be practicable if it exhibits the
    following qualities:
    1. It becomes a retribution for the crime committed.
    2. It prevents crime.
    3. It serves to create a sense of dread in criminals.
    4. It serves to assuage the feelings of the victims who have
    undergone privations.
    5. It seeks to refine and transform the criminal.
    6. It provides for the compensation of those who suffered losses
    due to the crime.
    7. It seeks to make the criminal repent his deed.
    8. It seeks to protect the society from crime and disorder.
    All of these qualitative functions may be seen to be fulfilled by
    any of the penal laws in Islam. It can thus be said without a shadow of
    doubt, that they are, indeed, practicable.
    The vision of the Qur’an as regards the matters such as
    individual, society and the like is totally different from that of the
    materialistic ideologies. This is evident also in its penal laws. Islam is
    never in consonance with the Freudian school of thought which sees
    in man nothing but a mere puppet that could never break free of the
    strangulating influences of the circumstances of his birth and
    environment. The Marxian view that it is economic change alone which
    determines all feelings of self and values is also alien to Islam. The
    outlook of capitalism, too, which holds that the full light of personality
    can shine forth only if those born free are also allowed to live their
    lives in complete freedom,is also rejected by Islam. However, Islam
    recognizes the fact that wealth, circumstances and environment all
    have their effect on the personality of men. But the person, as such, is
    never created by them. The individual feeling of self and the capacity
    to decide his stand in differing circumstances are the prerogative of
    the soul. Indeed, this has been the divine grace endowed upon man,
    and man alone. For it is this very soul that enables him to distinguish
    between good and evil and to decide his own choice between the two.
    It is the individuals who constitute a society. It is, moreover, the
    divine laws which seek to purify the individual. It is certain, then, that
    the society which is made up of individuals who imbibe, within
    themselves, the moral laws will be one in which peace and goodness
    reigns. The individual is obliged to obey these laws. For it is only through
    this that a self-purification becomes possible. Even so, there will be, in
    every society, at least some who try to deviate from the moral code. If
    such people are not stopped, it might spread and spread in evil becoming
    rampant in the society ,thereby,leading to a state of anarchy and chaos.
    The laws of the Shariah are meant to prevent such a perpetuation of
    the evil.
    The very objective of the penal laws in the Qur’an is to maintain
    the individual and society in a state of constant purity. Islam does not
    envisage a view whereby the individual may be sacrificed for the society
    or the society for the individual. Nevertheless, the capitalistic outlook
    which does not tolerate even the slightest encroachment of the individual
    and the communist view which holds that even the most basic urges
    of the individual ought to be sacrificed for the society are both alien to
    Islam. The vision of Islam, on the other hand, holds that it is never a
    mutually clashing relationship which must exist between the individual
    and society. It is values that necessarily binds them together
    harmoniously. The penal laws of the Qur’an serve to purify the individual
    and the society by way of protecting these values. Thus, they are
    centered neither on the individual nor on the society.

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