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A list of countries with Muslim majorities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_Muslim_countries
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2002/08/29/nigeri4257.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2219122.stm
Stoning-Muslim punishment
the fundamentalist regime of the Mullahs in Iran issues and/or carries out the savage sentence of stoning. The punishment for adultery under the article 83 of the penal code called the law of Hodoud is flogging for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders regardless of gender may be punished by stoning. The sentence is carried out by covering the person in a white shroud. Men are buried up to their waist, women are buried up to their neck in the ground. The law states that if the person who is to be stoned escapes, he or she is free to go. Therefore it is easier for men to escape the punishment than for women to do so. The victim is then hit by the stones that are picked to be just the right size. According to the Penal code of the Iranian regime, the stones should not be too large that the person dies after being hit by two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury.
Clothing-muslim rules
The Qur'an also places a dress code upon its followers. The rule for men has been ordained before the women: "say to the believing men to lower their gaze and preserve their modesty, it will make for greater purity for them and Allah is well aware of all that they do." Women are required to cover all of their body, except face and hands. Allah says in the Qur'an, "And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their khumūr over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or their sons, . . ." (surat an-Nur verse 31). All those in whose presence a woman is not obliged to practice the dress code are known to be her mahrams. Men have a more relaxed dress code: the loins must be covered from knee to waist
** I see MANY, MANY muslim women during the day,dressed in those
long coverings, dresses, and headcoverings,in my city.
Does YOUR town or city have a large population of Muslims? I've noticed a big increase in the past year, here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_Muslim_countries
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2002/08/29/nigeri4257.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2219122.stm
Stoning-Muslim punishment
the fundamentalist regime of the Mullahs in Iran issues and/or carries out the savage sentence of stoning. The punishment for adultery under the article 83 of the penal code called the law of Hodoud is flogging for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders regardless of gender may be punished by stoning. The sentence is carried out by covering the person in a white shroud. Men are buried up to their waist, women are buried up to their neck in the ground. The law states that if the person who is to be stoned escapes, he or she is free to go. Therefore it is easier for men to escape the punishment than for women to do so. The victim is then hit by the stones that are picked to be just the right size. According to the Penal code of the Iranian regime, the stones should not be too large that the person dies after being hit by two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury.
Clothing-muslim rules
The Qur'an also places a dress code upon its followers. The rule for men has been ordained before the women: "say to the believing men to lower their gaze and preserve their modesty, it will make for greater purity for them and Allah is well aware of all that they do." Women are required to cover all of their body, except face and hands. Allah says in the Qur'an, "And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their khumūr over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or their sons, . . ." (surat an-Nur verse 31). All those in whose presence a woman is not obliged to practice the dress code are known to be her mahrams. Men have a more relaxed dress code: the loins must be covered from knee to waist
** I see MANY, MANY muslim women during the day,dressed in those
long coverings, dresses, and headcoverings,in my city.
Does YOUR town or city have a large population of Muslims? I've noticed a big increase in the past year, here.