@ReasonOnFaith @empethop Its not scary. Even public heterosexual sex with 4 witnesses doesn’t have a death penalty.
— ServantOfAllah (@IslamicAhmadi)
I believe leaving this punishment open ended in a Muslim majority land is scary. Here are my thoughts in response to user ServantOfAllah:
Show me a Muslim majority country that handles the “crime” of gay sexual activity in private, in a charitable way. If not in modern times, then point me to some documented, representative, well established precedent in 1400 years of Islamic history.
If you can’t find it, then one would effectively be saying that 1400 years of Islamic civilization couldn’t muster the “clear” justice and tempered response to this “crime” that the Qur’an “clearly” advises of Muslims.
Further, this implies that after Muhammad, the ~1300 years of Islamic history prior to Ahmadiyyat was just a complete lost cause. That Allah just left Muslims to rot and grope around in the dark. Where’s the mercy in that?
Countless generations of Muslims through no fault of their own, absent of guidance.
In fact, since homosexuality has been mentioned in scriptures even before the time of Islam, please show me any precedent recorded in the sunnah of Muhammad of how he dealt with men accused of having a homosexual relationship.
Something in well revered books of Hadith with a non-dubious narration chain.
Remember, there are about 100,000+ recorded ahadith. Surely you can find something on this topic that is charitable. And you know homosexuality wasn’t obscure back then, since the People of Lot warranted a Qur’anic verse and the body of ahadith is far more voluminous than the Qur’an.
I look forward to investigating your sources and findings. Thanks.