Your
statement includes me:
It's presumptuous of them to think that the
shiploads of scholars hadn't read that verse or if
they did, they cannot interpret it in a way to
completely agree with the capital punishment of
apostasy.
Please read my posts.
You will see
from my reply to
Ahsan Khan that 'it is both right and
wrong'. The Islam we know today is the corrupted
Islam which includes hadith and culture, although I
agree that the punishment for apostasy is not
cultural. The true Islam, that is Quran plus
practices delivered to Abraham (salat and zakat)
does say there is no compulsion. Also, Quran
discourages capital punishment in the strongest
terms (the male for the male .. if a male kills a
female, you cannot take the life of the male). It is
hard to imagine that all the 1000 years of scholarly
work is wrong (the Christian scholars have been
misled into believing the divinity of Jesus for
twice that long).
For all
intents and purposes what we see of Islam (the
corrupted religion) does give the punishment of
death for apostasy, it is not cultural and I never
said that. But the faults we see with this Islam are
too minor comparatively speaking. It is what we do
not see (the flagrant idolization of Muhammad) that
is going to lead the Muslim masses to hell.
Depending on
which Islam we are talking about, we have two
answers. Obviously satan's laws, promoted by the
scholarls, are going to be diametrically opposed to
God's laws.
FYI, the
punishment for adultery in the Quran is 100
(symbolic) lashes - symbolic because 100 lashes
would kill someone. The punishment for the slave
women is half that. If death were the penalty (by
stoning), as these same scholars would have us
believe, how can you half kill someone? This should
tell the intelligent person that the scholars have
no clue as to what Quran, and the real Islam says.
The reason
they are prevented from understanding Quran is given
below,
"When you
read the Quran we place between you and those who do
not believe in the hereafter an invisible barrier.
And we place shields on their hearts and deafness in
their ears to PREVENT them from UNDERSTANDING.
Consequently when you preach your Lord using the
QURAN ALONE, they run away in aversion."
The do not
take ONLY Quran so they are prevented from
understanding it.
It is as
simple a fact as that. It is not presumptuous of me
to think that shiploads of scholars cannot
understand the verse correctly. They cannot because
they are prevented, for having disobeyed their
Creator.
You could
pose a rhetorical question : You mean they are all
wrong? You and I both know that they are not right
on this (and most other) issues.