That's incredibly unfortunate... in areas like that, people hardly know a thing about Islam but can label themselves Muslims and then pretend they're practicing it. Preference of boys over girls as children in Islam is a huge sin -- written so explicitly in the Qur'an. But the families and people described in the story clearly don't care and thus are hardly Muslims. I hope she finds a safer setting soon. With that sa…
>Preference of boys over girls as children in Islam is a huge sin -- written so explicitly in the Qur'an. anyone who doesn't follow the book to the tee is not a muslim ? What about Muslims who don't 'kill the infidels' , they aren't Muslims either? Is anyone a muslim at all then?
If you have faith in Allah, if you truly believe that he is the author of this world, and if you accept Muhammad as its prophet. Then, I genuinely wonder what room is left for compromises. How do you interpret "Kill the apostates"? How can you, in good faith, pretend it is an allegory?
This is what Islam requires from its followers: blind and complete trust. It is not only a sacred book. The Quran is a civil code that aims to regulate every minute of the lives of its adherents. And let's stop kidding ourselves. It is not a peaceful religion either. Islam has conquest and expansion ingrained in its DNA. The Muslim world is extremely orthodoxical. There are peaceful Muslims living in the West. They are peaceful in spite of their holy book, not because of it. Those individuals should be celebrated.
We're asking a violent bedouin who lived in a pre-medieval era to share our hierarchy of values and ethical system. This is anachronistic and cannot end well. Muhammad was not a hippie. He was a warlord.