But once it's known, it's okay to torture and murder them despite the fact they haven't hurt or harmed anyone? See, it's that thirst for blood that the civilized world looks down upon.
instead of torture and murder ,i would say 'punish '.....a punishment that is already well known previously for everyone....and not kept a secret.....and thus can simply be avoided by restraining from the punishable act in that particular scoiety or by leaving to another place allowing it
as for the 'harm' argument...i guess it's relative...i believe practcing sodomy to be harmful to the individual practing it....and avowing this practice in the scoiety is both harmful..and on the long run..destructive to the whole society
The point is , I will not succed in convincing you with my point of view...and certainly you won't convince me with yours regarding the ' harm ' it causes ,simply because we don't speak the same langauge
I speak the language of islam which is a spiritual civilization based on both reason and revealation...and you speak the materialisitc language that neither believes in god ,nor in the spirit
So i see fit that we agree to disagree on what is harmful and what is not..as long as we don't impose our world views on one another....let the estimation of the 'harm' to muslims in their societies...and we will let it for you in your societies