How can Muslims be non-radical?

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Originally Posted by Rust

^ Straws must be a bitch on the hands.

The man is given free reign to "smite" his servants as long as they survive. He can smite them as a punishment. Same thing.

Funny that you claim a straw man where there is none. His request was answered and an example of an even greater violation of the Law than beating a servant was given with an explanation of its explicitly commanded punishment. You are covered with your name.

Nor does it say the man has the right to beat his slaves as a punishment, but as a matter of ownership. This law refers to the act of slave-driving, that is, beating a slave not as punishment, but as a driver beats oxen to plow a field. If the owner drives his slaves so cruelly as that they die, he is then subjected to punishment; of which there exists no description. One does not even know what the punishment is, let alone who carries it out.