Yes, but which minorities? How did they treat atheists? Or people who were born into a Muslim family and never had faith? Or people who had it and then stopped believing? Or dissidents to Islam? Or political opposition to the rulers?
Western societies are not a paradise for homosexuals, far from it. In some European countries they have obtained the right to get married like everyone else, but it's a small minority. And there is still much prejudice and hatred against them. But at the very least they are not being molested by the law, you don't get sent to prison for being a homosexual or for being seen with another homosexual. So tell me, in this hypothetical Islamic state, would you risk going to prison for being a homosexual?
It's certainly abnormal, but so is almost everything else. Being a Juve fan is abnormal, because there are more people who are not than those who are. Abnormal means nothing more than being in the minority.
And I can say that people who like the color pink and fill their houses with things that are pink are disgusting, but so what? It doesn't affect me at all.
Well Islam doesn't force society into it, you can be an atheist in our
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YUSUFALI: Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.
but you're not allowed to go in public doubting and criticizing Islam and making new religions or insulting Islam or prophets, but you're most welcome to debate and ask all you want about Islam with sheikhs and educated ones
Many muslims believe that unbelievers should be excuted, according to a history incident once Muhammad PBUH died and lots of muslims went back to unbelievaing or changed faith and such, new Caliph Abu Bakr faught them
but he did because they were threating the newly born Islamic country, they were going to attack and they were harming the society
but not because they chaneged their faith
there's also a good example, once in a war Osama Ibn Zayd was about to kill an enemy, and right before he did the man declared himself muslim (obviously to get away as it seems) but Muhammad refused to let Osama kill him, because faith is between the man and God, not for us to judge
About homosexuals, our laws certainly won't protect them, and they will have to hide and do whatever they do in secret, and let God judge them not us
to actually get them to punished according to Islam's rules, they either tell on themselves (won't happen) or 4 people see them doing it (won't happen either)
that's why Islamic punishments (as stoning) which seem extreme, were obviously put to scare people off sins, they very rarely get applied
of course in taliban and with extremists they're applied and very misused, but I assure you there isn't any place on the planet that applies Islam 100% right, only individuals around the world.
Well I really can't get deeper into the accepting or not accepting homosexual behaviour, no one knows for sure if it's a psychological condition, a choice or if they're born like this