Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
75 to reading scripture— picking a passage and saying this is its true meaning regardless of everything else around it—or do we ...
76 countries are the same. For instance, in the middle of Ramadan 2014, Turkey witnessed a gay- pride march.) A sensible way for ...
77 can interpret scripture if she is suffi ciently learned in that scripture, which means that even extrem- ists may interpret s ...
78 Harris Except that there are more and less plausible readings of any text. Nawaz Yes, okay. I can’t sit here and say to you t ...
79 keen in their right to sin. They argued that we’re not angels walking on earth, and God is expecting re- pentance. What does ...
80 fi nding a way forward on the practical prob lem of reform. However, I’m worried that progress on the prac- tical prob lem wi ...
81 against the Islamic State on the front page of the Sunday Times. Harris Yes, I did. I spread that on social media the mo- men ...
82 approach, such as saying, “Let’s put everything to- gether and arrive at a more holistic understanding of what scripture migh ...
83 ahadith, one is left to choose between edicts that are terrible (fl ogging adulterers) and those that are worse (stoning them ...
84 (2:256)— with which to offset the general message of intolerance. There is also the doctrine of “abroga- tion,” under which l ...
85 As we’ve been having this dialogue there was an especially horrifi c attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, where members ...
86 “ Human life” only has value among you worldly materialist thinkers. For us, this human life is only a tiny, meaningless frag ...
87 this way pose a genuine danger to civilization. The prob lem, however, is that this way of thinking seems to be readily justi ...
88 human race— has to deal with the implications of our failure to fi x this question. We Muslims must get used to the fact that ...
89 My view is that no idea is above scrutiny, and no people are beneath dignity. As Ali A. Rizvi points out, if I say “smoking i ...
90 Let’s start with alcohol, because everyone as- sumes that all alcohol is absolutely prohibited for all Muslims. In Arabic the ...
91 not to favor this view but merely to demonstrate the surprisingly fl exible way in which traditional jurists with clout were ...
92 wine. From this other jurists drew an analogy, thereby prohibiting all other alcoholic substances. Notice that these jurists ...
93 says “changes,” which would imply entering as well as leaving Islam. The hadith doesn’t literally say “kill whoever leaves Is ...
94 medievalism. Rather, I’m merely attempting to demonstrate the nature of textual variance. Let us take this texts don’t speak ...
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