Dear Is Mise,

«Wife beating is not a cultural trait but one sanctioned and indeed demanded in the Qur'an.»

I'm aware that the Koran ALLOWS beating one's wife under certain circumstances, not that it DEMANDS so.

According to http://untotheone.com/index/on-conditions-that-permit-beating-ones-wife a husband is only allowed to beat his wife as a last resort to save their marriage.

Now according to the Koran, a man is only allowed to beat their wife if she disobeys him sexually, so if a man does not want to beat his wife, all he needs to do is to stop making sexual demands against her will! - If there is a will, then there is also a way!

«Hindus may be considered as 'people of the Book' by some Muslims but only where Islam is not the controlling power in society.»

The following concert, http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/sai-babas-arabic-islamic-flavour that combines Hindu and Islamic worship as one, was conducted in "Region 94", defined as:
Middle East and Gulf (except Israel):
Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey.

«What's your take on the Goddess Kali?»

It's a matter of personal appeal. I don't currently have a special personal relationship with Mother Kali, simply because with all respect, I rather worship God through other forms.

I didn’t think you’d be gone long, LEGO. Not for so long as you think you have an audience, at least. No, you disappear after a discussion no longer shows in the list of discussions by default, because you don’t think anyone’s watching anymore. That gives us another 16 days of going around in circles.

Aren't you excited?

<<[My point]'s been made.>>

Your return betrays your supposed confidence in that.

<<No sense talking to a brick wall.>>

Yet you came back anyway. Good for you!

<<Isn't that what the Creationists say to the scientists who take Evolution for granted?>>

No, I’ve debated creationists for years and I don’t recall such a remark as being characteristic of them.

Who are these scientists who “take evolution for granted”, too, by the way? Now THAT sounds like something a creationist would say!

<<[OLO] is not really a debate site, so we usually don't get feedback from other posters ...>>

Still focused in your audience, eh? I don’t see what this has to do with what you quoted either. Again, the point of quoting - which is to demonstrate the accuracy, thoroughness, relevance, and adequacy of a response - seems utterly lost on you.

<<I have no intention of simply going around in circles forever on this subject.>>

Then try addressing what I say instead of side-stepping it.

<<I have made my case and I am confident that most people agree with me …>>

No, your case overlooked the fact that not all Muslims have an adverse universally-held belief. And, again, your continued presence betrays your alleged confidence there.

<<[You] [s]tonewall, prevaricate, submit premises you know are not true, pretend that you can't make the simplest of logical connections, demand your opponent prove everything while you dodge saying anything you need to justify.>>

No, for so long as you engage in mental gymnastics to avoid acknowledging the fact that, of those three groups, the difference is that Muslims don’t have an adverse universally-held belief, I don't need to do any of that.

Will we try for a seventeenth attempt?