Kalam
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- Mar 5, 2009
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I highly doubt that you're able to make that judgment. The conditions under which capital punishment is permissible are specified in the Qur'an:But, you're fooling yourself that stoning is for rapists. Or just willful denial.
For this reason did We prescribe to the children of Israel that whoever slays a soul, unless it be for murder or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men; and certainly Our apostles came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them certainly act extravagantly in the land. - 5:32
The killing must be intentional (4:92, 5:95) and the perpetrator can be pardoned by the victim's family (2:178.) The second crime is more open to interpretation, but it can be concluded that rape is a capital offense that falls under this category if one believes in the veracity of Abu Dawud's Sunan (see Hudud, no. 4366.) Stoning is a controversial method of punishment and is only mentioned in the Qur'an as something used against Muslims and prophets by disbelievers. Still, rapists are filth and deserve painful deaths in my opinion, so I would not shed a tear if a rapist was stoned.
I made no mention of a "majority."You support those laws when the majority wants them, and that majority would a mob of Muslims.