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Qur'an (7:80-84) - "...For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)" - An account that is borrowed from the Biblical story of Sodom. Muslim scholars through the centuries have interpreted the "rain of stones" on the town as meaning that homosexuals should be stoned, since no other reason is given for the people's destruction. (The story is also repeated in suras 27 and 29)
See, here's my issue with interpreting religious texts. Is that saying that people "should" stone homosexuals, as in giving a command? Or is it giving an account of a situation where they were stoned? Maybe different people interpret it differently in an effort to fit their agenda (which is why religion is questionable)?
Either way it goes, its still saying they should be punished.
Those people who interpret it differently in an effort to fit their agenda are...*ahem"...westerners.
As you can see they're interpreting it quite literally.