Yahzi

Allah prescribed condoms?

saeedalyousuf

Condoms are for sex dummies.

Californian

Yeah right. AIDs did not exist 1400 years ago. It's a 20th century mutation that started among monkeys in Africa and then spread to humans about mid-century. It didn't hit the US until around 1980.

Why are you so hung up on the subject? <edited>

Naruto

If you're having sex with a dummy, why do you need a condom?

IsItJustMe

Seriously, Saeed al Yousuf, why couldn't Allah have given Mohamed the instructions for making a vaccine against AIDS? I would be interested in a respectful and serious discussion on this point. Please try to understand where I am coming from:

If God (or Allah if we are speaking Arabic, but by whichever name) knows everything, that would include instructions for stopping the AIDS virus more efficiently and with fewer side effects than either sexual abstinence or anti-retrovirals. Furthermore, if he had included such instructions in the Qu'ran, there would, at this point, be almost no non-Muslims left. Well, of course, nearly everyone would bow before a proof of God's power such as that. So why not do it?

And it would have saved any number of innocent people, including, for instance, children who are infected with AIDS during the birth process because their mothers have the disease. People who have had no chance to decide whether to do right or do wrong, who have never been exposed to Islam and had no chance to choose whether to accept or reject it.

In philosophy this is known as the problem of evil: Bad things happen in the world. This seems to mean God is either unwilling to stop them or incapable of stopping them. But either of those seems to go against the idea of God that religious people hold.

chapka

News flash: Islam doesn't prevent AIDS, it simply prevents AIDS cases from being reported.

UNAIDS puts the number of PWA's in the Middle East at somewhere between 250,000 and 1.5 million. Percentage-wise, the high end of that range is only a bit below the United States and much higher than Western Europe. In some muslim countries, such as Sudan, the rates are significantly higher, and there are growing epidemics in Libya and Iran.

If you want to talk about religion protecting people from AIDS, by any measure, the Asian religions have Islam beat cold. Does that prove that Confucianism is the one true way?

http://www.unaids.org/

Xrikcus

One of the major reasons for AIDS spreading currently in Muslim countries is injected drug use. Does the Koran say anything explicitly about injected drugs causing spreading of disease?

Hedshaker

One wonders why Allah created Aids in the first place :huh:



Orbit

Naruto

It wasn't Allah, it was, er, sin! Yeah, sin! Sin magically came together and created the first AIDS virus, but luckily, Allah forsaw this and made people follow some rules.

farside

Alternate Poll – Why did Allah Create Aids?

A) Allah is homophobic.

B) Allah enjoys watching humans waste away. :devil1:

C) Allah introduced Aids to control the human population.


Kind Regards,
Farside