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In Iraq there was a largescale attack by the Sunni militia on a group called the Yazidis. When it was over, 250 Yazidis were killed in multiple truck bombs. The Post Gazette has an editorial on it. In the editorial it mentions,
- The Yazidis are a largely peaceful religious minority, concentrated in the Kurdish north of Iraq, an area that since 2003 has been less troubled by attacks than the rest of the country.
But then it mentions a little further:
- The Yazidis recently quarreled with the Sunnis, who killed 23 Yazidi men after Yazidis had stoned to death a woman who had a relationship with a Sunni man.
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posted by Gary @ 11:39 PM
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I suppose it depends on the nature of the relationship between the man and the woman, doesn't it?
Unless she murdered the man... no and even then:
“If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
We don't know the nature of their relationship, but the way it was phrased makes me think it was sexual.
Therefore, I only mean that in an Islamic country, anyone who commits adultery knows what the punishment is going to be if they are caught, and is foolishly playing with fire.
And if that was the nature of their "relationship," the punishment is harsh, but not unforseeable.
Though I am no theonomist, to call people who are only enforcing their own laws barbarous or unpeaceful would mean by implication that Moses and all that came after him until Christ were barbarous and unpeaceful as well, and ultimately that God was barbarous and unpeaceful for he is the one who prescribed the punishment for the crime in ancient Israel.
Either that, or you would have to argue that the Law of Moses was actually not from God.
This would, of course, set the Old Testament against the New and would be a great mistake. A common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.
Brian
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