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Muslim polemicists and propagandists tell us that the Quran is God’s final revelation to humanity. Islam improves on Christianity, and their holy book corrects the Bible. These propagandists would like Islam to mediate between Judaism and Christianity. Implementing Islamic law or sharia is God’s will. However, the following legal decrees, policies, and practices contradict these mere verbal assertions and mental beliefs. Every one of them comes from the Quran itself, followed by chapter and verse.

1. The hands of male or female thieves should be cut off (5:38).

2. The hands and feet must be cut off for fighting and corrupting the land (5:33).

3. A highway robber may be crucified (5:33).

4. An injured plaintiff may exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye, literally (5:45).

5. Anyone who accuses someone else of sexual sins must bring four witnesses; if not, the accuser gets eighty lashes (24:4).

6. Husbands are a degree above their wives in status (2:228); reliable hadiths say the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women only because of their "harshness and ingratitude," not for any numerical majority around the globe.

7. A male gets a double share of the inheritance over that of a female (4:11).

8. A woman’s testimony counts half of a man’s testimony because she may "forget" (2:282). Reliable hadiths say this law is based on the "deficiency of a woman’s mind."

9. A man may divorce his wife merely if he says "I divorce you" three times (2:229). This verse is baffling because it does not say explicitly "three times." But Islamic law interprets it in this way.

10. A wife may remarry her ex-husband if and only if she marries another man, they have sex, and then this second man divorces her (2:230).

11. Husbands may hit their wife or wives (4:34).

12. Mature Muslim men may marry and consummate their marriage with prepubescent girls (65:4).

13. Slavery is endorsed: Muhammad himself traded in slaves and owned black slaves; and Muslim men may have sex with slave-girls (47:4; 4:24; 23:5-6; 70-29-30).

14. The Quran endorses the massacre of Jewish men and pubescent boys and the enslavement of the women and children (33:25-27).

This list is all about physical acts and practical policies here on earth, not about abstract doctrines. These policies and legal decrees can be measured and evaluated with our own eyes and sound reason, and how do they come out? Not very good, to say the least.

Further, it may be fairly asked: Did Jesus and his Apostles and the New Testament authors say or do these things? Not even close.

Thus, if the Quran is the last of God’s final revelation to humanity, then God must hate us, especially women. Truthfully, humanity can do a lot better than the Quran. We must leave it far behind us in the new millennium.

If the readers suspect that these verses have been taken out of context, they may click on the following articles that in turn have long and several supporting articles behind each item on the lists:

Does the Old Testament command some severe punishments? Yes, but go here to find out why they no longer apply in the New Testament.

Copyright (c) by James Malcolm Arlandson and used by permission. Originally published at American thinker, and later slightly edited for Answering Islam.