Islam is a Religion of Peace as Preached and Practiced.

As Salaamu Alaikum After my opponent used strawman after strawman, neglecting to actually debate, he finally makes a desperate attempt. Let's analyze. I repeat, I asked my opponent for the third time to present a law from the qur'an or sunnah which does not lead to peace if followed. So what does he do? He presents the following: "See the above example of punishing the 8 year old. Sharia law is based on the Qur'an and the Sunnah. It is Sharia law that provides this child's punishment (torture, rather). Then take a look at the video of the woman getting stoned. This too is based in Sharia law." Is the above example of the 8 year old mentioned in the qur'an? NO. How about the sunnah? NO. Are there videos in the qur'an? NO. How about the sunnah? NO. Again, my opponent is proving nothing. What is wrong with my opponent? 3 times I asked for evidence from the qur'an and sunnah and 3 times he shows examples from anything but the qur'an and sunnah. Clearly, those of us who are reasonable will agree that my opponent is losing, and losing fast with such strawmans. So he makes another attempt. He presents the following hadiths: "V2;B23;#413 - "The Jew brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from amongst them who have committed (adultery) illegal sexual intercourse. He ordered both of them to be stoned (to death)" V3;B34;#421 - "This is my brother and was born on my father's bed from his slave-girl." Allah's Apostle cast a look at the boy and found definite resemblance to 'Utba and then said, "The boy is for you, O 'Abu bin Zam'a. The child goes to the owner of the bed and the adulterer gets nothing but the stones (despair, i.e. to be stoned to death)." And here, perhaps, is the clearest version of how stoning is to take place, with the unwed laborer getting a simple hundred lashes, and the married woman he had sex with (note that the law is not different in cases of rape) getting stoned: V3;B49;#860 - "A bedouin came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Judge between us according to Allah's Laws." His opponent got up and said, "He is right. Judge between us according to Allah's Laws." The bedouin said, "My son was a laborer working for this man, and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife. The people told me that my son should be stoned to death; so, in lieu of that, I paid a ransom of one hundred sheep and a slave girl to save my son. Then I asked the learned scholars who said, "Your son has to be lashed one-hundred lashes and has to be exiled for one year." The Prophet said, "No doubt I will judge between you according to Allah's Laws. The slave-girl and the sheep are to go back to you, and your son will get a hundred lashes and one year exile." He then addressed somebody, "O Unais! go to the wife of this (man) and stone her to death" So, Unais went and stoned her to death." Being that these are hadiths, we can agree that it is not from the qur'an. So that leaves the sunnah. So the question is, is this from the sunnah? The answer is no. Had my opponent actually studied islam, instead of cherry picking hadiths, he would have easily learned that. The sunnah in islam is the legal ways of the prophet Muhammad(pbuh). It is the example set by Muhammad for all muslims to follow in order to be the best of muslims. Some things are obligatory, some are not. In the case of stoning, it is not the sunnah of Muhammad. The order of stoning comes from the taurat (torah). Muhammad used the law of the taurat because many of the tribes were not only jews, but the law of punishment for sex outside of marriage was not yet revealed. So it was the custom of Muhammad to use the law of the taurat, until Allah revealed otherwise. This can be found in Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8 Book 82 number 802. In short, Muhammad used the law of the jews for the jews. So once again, your example is flawed. Instead, your example only shows how just Muhammad is, for he judged the jews according to their law. So to conclude, after my opponent dodged the topic in the beginning, he finally makes an attempt, but fails miserably. And the question of how the laws in the qur'an does not establish peace still goes unanswered. The question is not whether there are violent verses or hadiths in islam, for I've already agreed in my opening statement that there are. So don't be fooled by the strawman of my opponent when he presents anything violent from the qur'an or sunnah and claims to have proven to me that violence is in islam. I never stated that there wasn't, nor is it the topic. The topic is whether the laws in islam establishes, not whether there's violence in islam. And when answering the question of whether the laws of islam establishes peace, my opponent still has not answered the question, proving that he has no proof, and confirming that islam is a religion which brings about peace.