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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP may be educated but she lacks critical thinking skills.

She routinely asks us to accept whatever her favorite scholars say, even when her snippets of their works contain no supporting evidence.

She routinely insists that you can't understand the Quran unless one knows Arabic, but she herself appears to not actually be able to read the Arabic herself as she been caught misconstruing Quranic passages multiple times--no compulsion in Islam instead of religion; saying the Quran censures a father for burying a female baby when it doesn't.

She routinely exhorts everyone to talk to Islamic scholars as those seem to be the sole source of all her knowledge and belief; there is no sign that she has ever attempted to deconstruct the Quran and understand it herself.  Then, laughably, she will write many lines about the background of scholars she regurgitates and their elevated association with one institution or another to back up why we should accept whatever they say.

When we don't accept, she flings around names like Islamaphobe or personal insults and threatens to out the shadowy anti-Islamic organiztion we must belong to.

Thanks PPs for keeping up the heat on her sophistry and providing hours of amusement.

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Here you go:
Surah Al-Nahl (Chapter 16), Verses 58 and 59 (16:58-59)

“When news is brought to one of them of (the birth of) a female (child), his face darkness, and he is filled with inward grief!
With shame does he hide himself from his people, because of the bad news he has had! Shall he retain it on (sufferance)? What evil choice they decide on!"

If I lack critical thinking skills, you are a liar.
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The earlier reference you gave that you said prohibited female infanticide was Sura 81, which, as I have explained is an apocalyptic chapter that uses a dead buried girl as a literary device.

Sura 16 talks about the pagans who opposed Muhammed and his message by, for example, attributing daughters to God.  It goes on to say that these men, when they receive news of the birth of a girl they keep her with humiliation or to bury her in the dust.   It then says that what they decide is evil.  This is of course a bit cryptic...is it that either of these two choices is evil (including keeping the child) or whatever they decide about anything is evil, given the previous lines denouncing their polytheism.

Other references in the Quran to infanticide seem pretty clear about prohibiting infanticide (at least male, one could infer the male plural includes females as well), but Sura 16--not so much.  It seems more a general slam on the polytheists who were resisting Muhammed and his message.[/quote]

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