Exactly. Now tell me what does that split have anything to do with the religion of Islam?
...everything? It's contention over whether your holy Prophet passed on his 'power', often regarded as an idolatry debate... a fundamentally religious issue.
LOL! I had a feeling you would post this verse but clearly by you posting this verse shows you really know nothing on the matter. What does the verse before this and after this say? What is the whole chapter based on? And read what I said carefully. I stated show me a verse in the Quran which states that you can kill a person or people for NO REASON.
Men are in charge of women. Just take a look at our political structures, family structures, authority positions, and etc. They're mostly men. Men, at the time of this reveleation, were the primary bread winners so of course, they would be in charge. Also, the Arabic translation you got is wrong. The word doesn't mean "strike" but to "tap".
Don't bring me hadiths without context. Here's a clue that event had actually nothing to do with Muslims. Within the Quran there's already a verse on adultery and let me tell you the punishment has nothing to do with stoning.
Please for the love of God get your verses, chapters, and context straight before you come at me with your cherry picked verses which you Googled online and just picked the first one of your search.
You're totally missing my point man. Indeed the quote from 'swords' is taken out of context, indeed the veracity of the tales of Mohammad stoning women and the story of Umar lamenting the forgotten 'stoning' verse are highly questionable, but people DO take these things out of context, people DO use these verses and stories and the opinions of religious 'scholars' to justify killing and stoning.
That you don't believe in that, that you don't practice that, that you consider that a perversion of your religion is to my mind really great. I'm quite glad. But that's you doing you, and you don't speak for the entire Islamic world en masse. There are different kinds of Islam, different interpretations (like extremist Wahabi), and although I know you'll adamantly insist their Islam isn't the real Islam and your Islam is, I'm afraid there's no getting around the fact that, given religion is so subjective and open to interpretation:
I've no special hatred or distaste for Islam; its suggested treatment of women as owned things who men must discipline is unpleasant to me, but the same crap is in the Bible. I'm quite content to let people believe what they want to believe and live the way they want to live so long as they're not hurting anyone else. But it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that your beliefs about Islam are the only beliefs that count as Islam, given millions of Muslims would fiercely disagree with you.