‘However, sura 24.2-4 prescribes one hundred lashes for fornication. ‘The woman and man guilty of fornication, flog each of them with a hundred stripes; let not pity move you in their case.’

‘As for the offence of ‘zina’, an Arabic term that includes both adultery and fornication, the Koran says nothing about lapidation as a punishment for adultery. Originally, women found guilty of adultery and fornication were punished by being literally immured: sura 4.15: ‘If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you, and if these bear witness, then keep the women in houses until death release them, or God shall make for them a way’

‘The same sura tells us: ‘The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter’

‘Sura 5.38 sets the tone: ‘As to the thief, male or female, cut off his or her hands a punishment by way of example from God, for their crime and God is exalted in power.’ According to Muslim law, ‘the right hand of the thief is to be cut off at the point of the wrist and stump afterwards cauterized, and for the second theft the left foot, and for any theft beyond that he must suffer imprisonment’

‘The Koran decrees punishments that can only be described as barbaric. The relativist who defends the inhuman customs prescribed in the Koran by claiming that these were normal practices at the time finds himself stumped by the gruesome revival of most of them in the putatively more enlightened twentieth century.’ - Ibn Warraq

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‘Fear corrupts all true morality - under its yoke humans act out of prudent self-interest, to avoid the tortures of hell, which are no less real to the believers than the delights of the cosmic bordello goes by the name of paradise’ - Ibn Warraq

‘That God is the omnipotent master and man His creature who is ever in danger of incurring His wrath - this is the basis of all Muslim theology and ethics’ - Sir Hamilton Gibb

‘We have already referred to the fact that the Koranic ethical system is based entirely on fear. Muhammad uses God’s wrath-to-come as a weapon with which to threaten his opponents, and to terrorize his own followers into pious acts and total obedience to himself’ - Ibn Warraq

‘Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown, and partly…the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing - fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand’ - Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not A Christian