IN  THE  DEFENSE 
OF  ISLAM

    A Christian missionary or friend of mine has quoted verses from the Holy Qur'an and is trying to make an impression that the Quranic norms, standards or rules are much more strict, severe or oppressive than those to be found in the Bible. How do I respond?

   Please keep the following verses from the Bible handy in your reference library. Insha'Allah, they will help you in drafting your spontaneous responses to unfounded criticisms. 

   If you wish me to add any particular norm or tradition, besides the few mentioned below please send me an e-mail at: 
                     webmaster9@mostmerciful.com 

   Christ is the head of every man,
    and the man is the head of a woman,
    and God is the head of Christ. ...1 Corin. 11:3

    For the husband is the head of the wife,
    as Christ also is the head of the church. ...Ephes. 5:23

    For indeed man was not created for the woman's sake,
    but woman for the man's sake. ...1 Corin. 11:9

    In pain you shall bring forth children;
    Yet your desire shall be for your husband,
    And he shall rule over you. ...Genesis 3:16

    Let a woman quietly receive instructions
    with entire submissiveness.
    But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise
    authority over a man, but to remain quiet. ...1 Tim. 2:11-12

    Let the women keep silent in the churches,
    for they are not permitted to speak,
    but let them subject themselves,
    just as the Law also says.
    And if they desire to learn anything,
    let them ask their own husbands at home,
    for it is improper for a woman 
    to speak in church. ...1 Corin. 14:34-35

    Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman 
    commits adultery against her;
    and if she herself divorces her husband and marries
    another man, she is committing adultery ... Mark 10:11-12

   The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;
    they stay in the strongholds;
    their strength is exhausted,
    they are becoming like women ...Jer. 51:30

    But every woman who has her head uncovered 
    while praying... disgraces her head. ...1 Corin. 11:5

    For a man ought not to have his head covered,
    since he is the image and glory of God;
    but the woman is the glory of man. ...1 Corin. 11:7

    It is better to live in a corner of a roof, than
    in a house shared with a contentious woman. ...Prov. 21:9 

    A woman shall not wear man's clothing,
    nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing. ...Deut. 22:5

    When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer
    it terms of peace. And it shall come about, if it agrees to
    make peace with you and opens to you, then it shall be that
    all the people who are found in it shall become your forced
    labour and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace
    with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege
    it. When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall
    strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the
    women and the children and the animals and all that is in the
    city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and
    you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your
    God has given you. ...Deut. 20:10-14

    When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord
    your God delivers them into your hands, and you take them    away captive, and see among the captives a beautiful woman,    and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for    yourself, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she
    shall shave her head and trim her nails. ...Deut. 21:10-12

   Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
   every woman who has known man intimately, but all the girls
   who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. 
       ...Numbers 31:17-18

   And when the Lord your God shall deliver them before you,    and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them.
   You shall make no covenant with them and show no favour     to them.     ...Deut. 7:2 

   And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of
    Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with
    the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They
    left no one who breathed.              Joshua 11:14

    If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter,
    or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own
    soul, entice you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other
    gods' ...you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your
    eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.
    But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first
    against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of
    all the people.                           Deut. 13:6-9

   If you hear in one of your cities which the Lord your God is
    giving you to live in anyone saying that... 'Let us go and
    serve other gods' then you shall investigate...and if it is
    true...you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city
    with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that
    is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.
                                                  Deut. 13:12-15

    Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that he has,
    and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman,
    child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.  1 Sam. 5:3
 

(KJV) Ps 58:9     Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall
                  take them away as with a whirlwind, both
                  living, and in {his} wrath.

(KJV) Ps 58:10    The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the
                  vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood
                  of the wicked.

(KJV) Ps 68:23    That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of
                  {thine} enemies, {and} the tongue of thy dogs
                  in the same.

    ...In your midst (the rulers of Israel) have committed acts of
    lewdness. `In you they have uncovered their father's
    nakedness(*); in you they have humbled her who was unclean    in her menstrual impurity. And one has committed   abomination with his neighbour's wife(**), and another in you   humbled his sister(***), his father's daughter'. Ezekiel 22:9/11

    Note: For detailed narrations of the above recorded acts see
          (*) Gen. 9:22; (**) 2 Sam. 11:2/5ff and 12:10/12; 
          (***) 2 Sam. 13:10/17.

    And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's
    concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; then all
    Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your
    father (King David)." So they pitched a tent for Absalom on
    the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in
    the sight of all Israel. .... 2 Sam. 16:21/22

    But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his 
    concubine and brought her out to them. And they raped her    and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the
    approach of dawn. .... Judges 19:25

  Note: In the morning, the concubine was found dead by her
master at the doorway of his house. 

...He (the master) took a knife and laid hold of his concubine
and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her
throughout the territory of Israel. .... Judges 19:29

And it came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that
Ruben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and
Israel heard of it. .... Gen. 35:22

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her (Jacob's daughter), he took her and lay with
her by force. ... Gen. 34:2

Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and
perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up
offspring for your brother." And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so it came about that when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, in order not to give offspring to his brother. .... Gen. 38:8/9

When Judah saw her (Tamar), he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face. So he turned aside to her by the
road, and said, "Here now, let me come in to you"; for he did   not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she (who knew her father-in-law) said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" He said, therefore, "I will send you a kid    from the flock." ....So he gave to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him."

Note:    Out of this relationship were born twins, Perez and 
    Zerah. From Perez a direct genealogical line continued
    to David, Solomon and finally to Joseph - the husband of
    Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.  (See Matthew Ch.1).

"Come, let us make our father (Lot) drink wine, and let us lie
with him, that we may preserve our family through our father."
So they made their father drink wine that night, and the
first-born went in and lay with her father; and he did not
know when she lay down or when she arose. And it came about on the morrow, that the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father." So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. Gen. 19:32/36

Please read Ezekiel chapter 23 and discover the obscene and
indecent language in which God(!) compares the idolatries of
Jerusalem and Samaria with the unabashed and shameless acts of 
harlotries. In this chapter, the language spoken used by God(!), 
the quoted passages, are so graphic that they are unfit for reading 
by the youngsters. Here is an example; 
"And she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses."  ...Ez. 23:20.

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