In prophet Lot’s story in the Quran , it is said that when his people try to barge in and rape his guests (the angels ), he outright offered them his two daughters to rape instead which is something that I can’t really wrap my head around and can’t understand why it would be in any way considered better than the alternative and why the Quran would even mention that ?
The nature of Prophet’s Lot’s offering of his daughters is never made clear in the Quran. It’s usually interpreted as meaning that he was offering them in marriage, or that he was referring to all the women of his town as his “daughters”.
We know that Prophet Lot was under extreme psychological stress at this time, and that he felt overpowered:
He said, “If only I had the strength to stop you, or could rely on some strong support.” (The Quran, verse 11:80)
So it’s possible Prophet Lot himself didn’t know what he was offering them! We don’t know how many men there were among the attackers. If their number was greater than the number of Prophet Lot’s daughters, perhaps Prophet Lot thought that he could satisfy the chief men by marrying his daughters to them while also thinking that other women from the town can always be found for the rest.
For more on this please see this previous answer: Did God destroy the People of Lot for rape instead of homosexuality?
So this is not something that Islam condones or even tolerates but merely a relic of a bygone age or perhaps prophet Lot’s own views and dispositions? I ask because I have heard this used aganist Islam so many times
It is Prophet Lot’s own choice, the Quran does not tell us we should do the same in similar circumstances, but still the Quran does condone his behavior. Whether that behavior is appropriate today is another matter.