Religion is the stupidest thing in this world. You must be really weak minded and clueless to follow such stupid religious nonsense to the point of killing your own flesh and blood. This world would be wayyyyyyyy much more peaceful without religion. I am glad am an atheist. That's the best thing that ever happened to me. I have a very liberated lifestyle. No religious nonsense to follow day after day. I feel sorry for religious folk.

On a serious note, killing with disregard of the law is wrong. If it is true the daughter practised prostitution while her husband was away for 6 months (as the report says), then she should have been taken through full process of the law and judged accordingly.

Please remember that one may take life only "by way of justice and law."
Death penalty can be applied by a court as punishment for the most serious of crimes, including adultery, murder, sodomy, robery with violence, rape etc.

I know no one disputes this

So Islamic philosophy holds that a harsh punishment serves as a deterrent to serious crimes that harm individual victims, or threaten to destabilize the foundation of society.

Problem is that, some people have laws, and claim to know them.
But when it comes applying them, the find excuses.

First, understand that you're asking a question which is so obviuos.
You should not forget that Muslims are committed people, if there is law to be followed, then they follow.

<Question> shoot your daughter 3 times at the back of the head?
<Answer> Yes, if she is guilty of the most serious of crimes, punishable by death.

<Question> obligate sons to stone their mother to death to prove their manhood?
<Answer> No. It's very clear in Quran 5:32, you cannot kill innocent human being.

I already stated in my earlier post that Jihad is not terrorism and Islam condems killing of innocent.
I've emphasized that killing of the innocent civilians, whether through aggression or suicidal means, is under no circumstances permissible in Islam.
I've also said that even terrorism is haram.

So what should we do
about these people who do serious of crimes like adultery, murder, sodomy, robery with violence, rape etc?
The scholars of Islam say they should be punished, they are criminals and the aim is to find them and kill them as criminals.

If you're Christian
then I tell you even your God (my God too, but I emphasize the Bible here) Says that such crimes are punishable. I can give you evidence in your own Bible.

Let me give you a story
to show you fairness and Justice in Islam
The Messenger of God, Muhammad (pbuh) was just and fair in every aspect of his life and in the application of the religion. Hadith says:
One time, a woman from a rich family, with good connections was found guilty of theft.
For the prestige of her tribe, some prominent people interceded to save her from punishment.
The Prophet refused to condone the crime and expressed displeasure saying:
"Many a community ruined itself in the past as they only punished the poor and ignored the offences of the exalted.
By Allah, if Muhammad's (My) daughter Faatimah would have committed theft, her hand would have been severed."

The Jews,
in spite of their hostility to the Prophet were so impressed by his impartiality and sense of justice. They started bringing their cases to him and he decided them according to Jewish law.

Evidence
That's why in Islamic countries:
- crime rate is the lowest
- poverty is the lowest (obligatory charity)
- cases of HIV is lowest
- etc

@AlphDoti, one must wonder then why in all three cases, perpetrators flee/silent and the police were investigating to prosecute.

Shouldn't these protectors of virtue be 'commended' or 'stand to be counted' ? Has murder now become a virtue to purify adultery? These executioners with graver sins on their conscience only that they are hidden.

I for one wouldn't raise children with such 'virtuous' neighbours or in such a 'pure, wealthy' neighbourhood.


Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. Leonard Woolf