Understanding Islam — Page 160
ARE WOMEN VIOLENTLY OPPRESSED IN ISLAM? 158 Furthermore, the daughter of a priest who behaves immorally is to be punished in the following inhuman fashion: And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. 39 If a man rapes a woman in the town, she is to be stoned to death along with the rapist, since it is presumed that she did not scream loudly enough to be found and therefore consented to the act: Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town, you must take both of them to the gates of that town and stone them to death. The woman is guilty because she did not scream for help. The man must die because he violated another man’s wife. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you. 40 In addition to the above, women are commanded to be subservient to their husbands 41 and women,