Concept of honor and respect

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Re: Concept of honor and respect

@PyariCgudia

The punishment for adultery as stoning wasn’t a modification of honor killings!!!

It was a modification of the same Abrahamic punishment as perscribed by the Jewish tradition. Like I’ve stated, the Islamic version is described in Hadith’s and not in the Quran, so keep that in mind as well. Furthermore, I don’t see how honor killings are remotely similar to the adultery punishment.

Adultery punishments are not done for the primary purpose of salvaging a family’s “honor”. The concept of family honor is not emphasized in the Quran in the first place. Rather, the emphasis is on - do good deeds. Period. No honor, etc involved. And you can’t commit a crime to preserve your honor in Islam.

Adultery punishments are meant to preserve the quality of family life. If you were married, and your spouse cheated on you, and did it to the point that 4 people managed to catch them doing it, wouldn’t you be utterly upset over it? How do you think it would affect your children? How would it affect you? Is that fair to you?

These punishments are meant to get people to keep their private parts in their pants, and reserve them only for the people they took marital vows with.

Honor killings, as I repeat, can be done for anything and everything. You could catch your wife talking to another guy, and you could kill her.

Oh and here is another difference. Honor killings target women. Punishments for adultery are given to both men and women. Hey, at least our religion takes it seriously when a woman is cheated on by a womanizing husband! Lets say there was no punishment for adulterers. You’d still whine because you would claim that not enough is being done to guys who don’t keep their stick in their own pants!

Jeez.

Very well explained :k: