re an anecdote about islam in article bu edu jaeger buphy bu edu gregg jaeger writes in cases of prostitution both the man and the prostitute would be punished in public quite severely deletion no gregg you cannot say a is lenient and a punishes severely in public unless of course it is one of the exceptions implied by almost all matters that depends on the statistics and who is punished in public if some power for example nothing islamic about it allows men to rape women five times before blowing the rapist s head off in public then i d call that leniency wouldn t you you have given that example it is not lenient end of argument and chopping off the hands or heads of people is not lenient either it rather appears that you are internalized the claims about the legal system without checking if they suit the description and wasn t the argument that it takes five men to rape a woman according to islamic law while i don t approve of it i think both the prostitute and the customer have the right to do what they do in other words punishing them is a violation of their rights and to punish them severely in public is just another pointer to the hysteria connected with sexuality in so many religions believe what you like no i even believe what i don t like can you give better answers than that have you got any evidence for your probably opposite claims in this case i don t see why i should accept the complex ridden views of an oriental goatherd ah yes i forget that the west is historically so much without sexual neurosis oriental goatherd really intellectual a fact if memory serves and most will see the connection between the primitive machism in the orient and in islam if people agree on having sex it is fine and i would assume that a god would have a clue of what the detrimental effects of supressing it are huh ever heard of aids of course you ll probably go on to say that god must be evil because he allows the disease to exist bla bla as usually you miss the point aids is neither spread only through sex nor necessarily spread by having sex futher the point is a very important point the urge for sex is stronger than the fear of aids it is even stronger than the religious attempts to channel or to forbid sex the consequences of suppressing sex are worse than the consequences of aids please note that the idea that everybody would end up with aids when sex is not controlled is completely counterfactual and since you have brought up the point is your god evil or not benedikt
