Few months ago a thirteen year old Somali girl was stoned to death in a stadium with 50,000 people watching in conformity with the Quran ordinance (Sharia). Yet the audacity of the Islamic authority is exemplified when it claims that Islam has liberated the woman.

The incident above took place when the parents of the child were absent from home which encouraged their neighbor to take advantage of the situation and raped the girl. Being too young she did not know that she should have not reported the incident to the police. The police according to the Sharia have demanded from the girl to bring 4 witnesses to prove the rape, but, of course, she failed to meet such an impossible demand which lead to her death by stoning. The Sharia uses verse (24-4), which demands clearly 4 witnesses to justify the rape, while (24:13) states very clearly that if the victim could not bring the witnesses, then she is not telling the truth and the punishment is stoning until death! Can anyone conceive of any circumstances where the culprit would bring with him 4 witnesses to watch the rape to incriminate himself by asking them to watch and become witnesses to the crime? By bringing those witnesses he would condemn his own life to severe punishment. May be we can imagine the situation where a group of criminals all took part in the rape, would they then condemn themselves by testifying to their own demise? The message here is that a Moslem can rape anyone with impunity as long as there are no 4 witnesses at a time! The message is that the Quran tells the Moslems to go ahead and commit the crime since getting four witnesses is next to impossible. A Moslem apologist tried in vain to explain such a debacle by stating that such Sharia rules would prohibit any women from falsely accusing an innocent man from committing such a despicable act! Really? What if the woman was telling the truth? How many women, especially in the conservative Arab-Moslem world would conjure such an incident that would ruin her reputation, even if she was able miraculously to prove her side of the story? By Moslem standards she would have a very slim probability of getting married and have a normal family. The message again here is to tell men that they can be involved with such ugly episode without getting in trouble. In certain modern societies new DNA technologies are allowed to be used to arrive to the truth, but what was the purpose of the “prophet of mercy” then with such “inspiration” that would never give the victim a chance to achieve justice?

There are many other aspects of the sharia hat demean women in Islam but suffice here to mention In (Sahih Bukhari 1.301, Sahih Bukhari 2.541 : Women are deficient in mind and religion, while in In Bukhari V1B9N(490,493,498) confirm that prayers are annulled if a dog, a donkey and a woman pass in front a praying Moslem! Is equating women with animals some form of liberating the women in Islam? Even Aisha the wife of the prophet complained on how insulting to equate them with animals. If humans were created as the true image of God, how could such a divine image be equal to a dog?