The Qur’anic punishment for lewdness was abrogated and folded into zina’.

Evidence

It was more reasonably supposed that stirah 1v. effectively legalised homosexual relations, since in the Islamic tradition this is in fact the subject of this revelation, which, however, is considered abrogated, by sitrah xxiv, prohibiting all kinds of illicit sexual intercourse. The abrogation governed Islamic law, but was not understood by Christians. The burden of their attack on stirah 1v. was that the prohibition there was so slight as to indicate that the crime was judged equally slight. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 792 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christians misread an abrogated Qur’anic verse as proof Islam licenses sodomy — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 792

Related

• Christians misread an abrogated Qur’anic verse as proof Islam licenses sodomy (similarity 0.93)
• Christians framed Islam as a religion built on sexual licence (similarity 0.82)
• Some medieval Christians conceded the Qur’an forbids sodomy (similarity 0.79)
• Christian concepts of adultery distorted what Muslim revelation could mean (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Christians misread an abrogated Qur’anic verse as proof Islam licenses sodomy #expands (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 792