Prostitution is considered as a grave sin among Muslims and hence is banned in most Muslim countries. So much so that in the latest occurring of Phul Nagar, a small town few kilometres away from Lahore in Pakistan, four women were punished for their alleged involvement in prostitution by forcing them to walk naked on streets by an angry mob.
Intriguingly, an inquiry into Quran suggests that there is no mention of discouraging or banning of prostitution and punishing prostitutes. I wonder where do these guys get all their ideas from, clearly they don’t get from their holy text.
#1 by Em on October 3, 2009 - 7:22 pm
Digressing from if it is prohibited in some holy book or not, I have always wondered about another thing in this regard:
Why is it always the prostitutes who are held at fault and not those who actually seek their services? If that is what the mob has deemed as a punishment- why haven’t they done so with the ‘customers’?
Obviously if there’s no ‘demand’, there would have been no ’supply’; and there will always be ’supply’ if there is ‘demand’!
More people should study economics. Duh!