re: #420 ladycatnip

#214 iceweasel

The big difference between the two is we have no ruling law derived from the OT as there is from the koran, which is sharia.

As you stated, the OT bears no resemblance to how Judaism is practiced today. No one in Judaism today is stoning people for adultery, no one is being put to death for not observing the Sabbath. No one is requiring forced observance to anything in the OT.

OTOH, sharia is alive and well. People are being stoned today, limbs are being cut off for minor infractions of sharia, there are lashings given to women who have been raped. There are honor killings on a daily basis, and even in our own country.

There is NO similarity between the koran and the OT aside from the historical account of the OT being rather violent - but that recount of historical violence is not being perpetuated today as it is in islam.

I would like to respectfully question your statement. I thought halachah in Judaism would be comparable with shariah as a legal code. Also, I thought that the Mohamad had been adopted by members of the Jewish community, and that they taught him the Torah, the Jewish bible. The Koran thus has origins in the Jewish bible.

With those statements made, I also wish to challenge myself for I know neither about halacha, nor about the origins of Islaam to pretend that I am making statements of fact, i.e., I am probably wrong.