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The moral police of God
Posted by Bee Zee in Irrationality, Religion on October 3, 2009
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.
PS: It’s all for God…
After much pondering and re-pondering Malaysian authority decided to go ahead with Kartika’s ‘caning’ after all.
What was the crime? Drinking beer despite being a Muslim. Quran says ‘no’ to alcohol and hence she gets to get caned.
I thought religion should be a personal matter and what one does or does not do, is something between the God and that person. May be I thought wrong… or maybe I’m just one of those exceptionally insightful people… and I just don’t GET them!
Blah. Don’t mind me. I flatter myself on a regular basis! After all who will do it if I don’t?!
Jokes apart though…. I thought a little further… and further…
Here’s what I concluded when I was finally able to take a peek in those zealot’s heads- they do these to make God’s job easy or to play God. Your pick, you choose either. As for me, the difference between the two is almost as much as ‘tomato’ and ‘tomah-to’… or well… ‘tometo’… as ‘some’ parts of the world know it as.
Whatever…
After all, I get it (or DO I really?), if YOU punish a human in THIS life, God will not have to- in AFTER life. Or does it not work this way?
Thoughts, perhaps?
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