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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Honor Related Violence‎|2=[[File:Honor victims.JPG|190px|link=Honor Killing Index]]|3=Honor Related Violence is physical violence that is inflicted on an individual by perpetrators who believe the victim has brought dishonor upon the family, clan, or community by engaging in any conduct that is perceived as immoral or unacceptable by religious or social/cultural standards. This violence almost always happens in Muslim families.  
<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Honor Related Violence‎|2=[[File:Honor victims.JPG|190px|link=Honor Killing Index]]|3=Honor related violence is physical violence that is inflicted on an individual by perpetrators who believe the victim has brought dishonor upon the family, clan, or community by engaging in any conduct that is perceived as immoral or unacceptable by religious or social/cultural standards. This violence almost always happens in Muslim families, where women are killed for many "honor" related reasons, including being raped or associating with non-related males.  


Honor Killing is a major problem in Muslim countries and has now spread to the west through immigration. In the west, if a Muslim women refuses to wear the traditional female Muslim clothing, wears makeup, wants to choose her own husband or leaves a husband, wants to live on her own or has an affair, her family takes offense at her desires and in their eyes she has dishonored the family. ([[Honor Killing Index|''read more'']])}}</option>
In practice, honor related violence is not limited to humans, but can also apply to animals. For example, in July 2011, a male who was caught in Pakistan having sex with another man's donkey was fined 110,000 rupees. This fine was not imposed for having sex with an animal, but for committing adultery. The raped donkey was labelled a 'kari' (an adulteress) and eventually honor killed by its owner. ([[Honor Killing Index|''read more'']])}}</option>




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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was brutally killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift who ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option>
<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift who ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option>




<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Muhammad and Aisha|2=[[File:Woman-Girl-Man-2.jpg|250px|link=Aisha Age of Consummation]]|3=Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage while she remained pre-pubescent, aged just nine years old. Consequently, while following their prophet's example, Muslims throughout the world and throughout history have married girls as young six and in modern times many Islamic states have set the minimum age of marriage for females to be six or nine years of age.
<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Muhammad and Aisha|2=[[File:Woman-Girl-Man-2.jpg|250px|link=Aisha Age of Consummation]]|3=Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage while she remained pre-pubescent, aged just nine years old. Consequently, while following their prophet's example, Muslims throughout the world and throughout history have married girls as young six, and in modern times many Islamic states have set the minimum age of marriage for females to be six or nine years of age.
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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Slavery in Islam|2=[[File:Images-slavery-0008.jpg|300px|link=Slavery]]|3=Under Islamic laws, slavery is explicitly permitted. As Saudi Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Senior Council of Clerics had said in 2003, those who argue that slavery is abolished are "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel." Muhammad himself was a slaver. He not only owned many male and female slaves, but he also sold, captured, and had sex with his slaves. Even his wives owned slaves. Muhammad's actions perpetuated the existence of this reprehensible trade by institutionalizing it within Islam. This sanction of slavery has helped the Muslim world create one of the largest trans-continental slave trades in history.  Slavery was (due largely to pressure from the West) officially abolished in the 1960's, but the trade still exists in the Islamic East. As of July 2009, there were over half a million slaves in Mauritania alone. ([[Slavery|''read more'']])}}</option>
<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Slavery in Islam|2=[[File:Images-slavery-0008.jpg|280px|link=Slavery]]|3=Under Islamic laws, slavery is explicitly permitted. As Saudi Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Senior Council of Clerics had said in 2003, those who argue that slavery is abolished are "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel." Prophet Muhammad himself was a slaver. He not only owned many male and female slaves, but he also sold, captured, and had sex with his slaves. Even his wives owned slaves. Muhammad's actions perpetuated the existence of this trade by institutionalizing it within Islam. This sanction of slavery has helped the Muslim world create one of the largest trans-continental slave trades in history.  Slavery was officially abolished in the 1960's due largely to pressure from western nations, but the trade still exists in the Islamic world. As of July 2009, there were over half a million slaves in Mauritania alone. ([[Slavery|''read more'']])}}</option>




<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Persecution of Homosexuals|2=[[File:Homosexuals.jpg|160px|link=Islam and Homosexuality]]|3=Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were Iranian teenagers from the province of Khuzestan who were publicly hanged in Iran in July 2005 for engaging in consensual homosexual sex. Homosexuality in Islam is not only a sin, but a crime under Islamic law. [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Homosexuality|Muhammad asked Muslims]] to kill homosexuals. With the rise of the Islamic population in the West, also comes the rise in persecution. For example, while Muslims comprise just 2% of the total British population, they commit 25% of all anti-Homosexual crimes. However, this ongoing and increasing persecution of homosexuals by Muslims around the world, rarely makes the mainstream news. ([[Islam and Homosexuality|''read more'']])}}</option>
<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Persecution of Homosexuals|2=[[File:Homosexuals.jpg|230px|link=Islam and Homosexuality]]|3=Mahmoud Asgari (16) and Ayaz Marhoni (18) were Iranian teens who were publicly hanged in July 2005 for engaging in consensual homosexual sex. Similar incidents occur regularly throughout the Islamic world. Homosexuality is considered to be one of the worst sins in Islam and one of the greatest crimes punishable under Islamic law. The Prophet Muhammad not only condemned homosexuality but even the "appearance" of homosexuality (effeminate men and masculine women). With the rise of the Islamic population amongst historically non-Muslim societies, also comes the rise in persecution. For example, while Muslims comprise just 2% of the total British population, they commit 25% of all anti-Homosexual crimes. However, this ongoing and increasing persecution of homosexuals by Muslims around the world, rarely makes the mainstream news. ([[Islam and Homosexuality|''read more'']])}}</option>





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Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Controversy in the Qur'an

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The precise meaning of the opening phrases in verses 86 and 90 in the 18th chapter of the Qur’an, Sura al-Kahf, or “The Cave”, is a matter of considerable controversy. Our analysis shows that the various interpretations that have been proposed for verses 18:86 and 18:90 in the Qur’an to reconcile them with scientific facts do not stand up to detailed scrutiny.

The evidence overwhelmingly supports the clear and obvious interpretation that this is intended to be understood as a historical account in which Dhu’l Qarnayn travelled until he reached the place where the sun sets and actually found that it went down into a muddy spring near to where a people were, and that he then travelled until he reached the place where the sun rises and actually found that it rose up above a people who lived close to the place where the sun rises. (read more)