Muhammad Kills: Part 6, The Stoning of the Bedouin's Wife
Channel: MsMr NoFace
Date: 2011-10-03

Muhammad passes judgement on an adulterous couple when approached in the mosque. This started of as a Draw Joniversity Day project that was far too ambitious. Did you Notice Jonny? He makes a sorta cameo. Maybe you should check again.

Script: A hadith is a story of Mohammad and his early followers.
In order to be considered "Sahih" [That is authentic] the chain of people who transmitted it [or the isnad] must be known and deemed trustworthy.
    This Sahih hadith relates an important story that illustrates the different punishments prescribed for sexual relations outside of marriage depending on marital status.

Sahih Bukhari vol. 8 no. 815

When I read this hadith for the first time I was struck with the apparent unfairness of stoning the woman while the man was merely lashed and exiled. However this was not because she was a woman, it was because she was married. Had the man been married Muhammad would have prescribed the same punishment for him. 
   So on the surface this seems to be a fairly meted out if brutal punishment.
  But there are a couple of problems. 
  Women get pregnant and this [if her husband denies paternity] may serve as evidence of adultery. Also if a woman is raped her testimony is not equal to a man's. And she risks severe punishment if her accusation is deemed unfounded. In the end then, Islam's laws on adultery are slanted against women and facilitate the evil acts of men who would take advantage of these god given inequities. 
Let me anticipate the apologetics: Perhaps it's just our human point of view that makes this seem evil and all will be fair in the end (presumably in heaven).
    And so Allah's ethics like his being lay conveniently beyond any test or verification.
Doesn't that seem a bit suspicious?