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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
The Bible also condones rape and sex slavery, I don't see Christians rushing to rape and force sex slavery.
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Which part of the bible? The Old Testament condones much worse than that (and is far worse than the Qu'ran as a moral guidebook), but Christianity provides some interpretive tools that allow Christians to argue that those prescriptions don't apply. Similarly, you don't see a lot of Jews suggesting people be stoned for adultery. Those tenets have, for all intents and purposes and by the vast, vast majority of adherents been discarded. The same needs to happen with respect to the bad stuff in the Islamic tradition. Pretending that bad stuff doesn't
exist in that tradition (or that no one is basing their behaviour on it) doesn't help.