Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
95 To judge is a more passive requirement to arbi- trate using God’s commands between those who voluntarily come to you seeking ...
96 therefore may remain legal, even while being haram. Of course, this only leaves the matter of the penal codes (hudud) themsel ...
97 that today we would fi nd repugnant. But by comparison with other socie ties at that time, they were relatively— I say relati ...
98 instance. A related theory by Imam al- Shatibi, known as maqasid al- shari’ah, or the “aims of Shari’ah,” again focuses on va ...
99 Muslim triumphalism and intolerance are modern ones. I know that modern Islamism learned a trick or two from Eu ro pean fasci ...
100 incursions in Eu rope, the persecution of Eastern Christians, and the desecration of Christian holy sites. And few people se ...
101 practice of slavery. But as you know, Muslims, too, practiced slavery in Africa, and Western slavers appear to have learned ...
102 Muslims recite the shahadah or make pilgrimage to Mecca. Neither is it an accident that in the year 2015, horrifi c footage ...
103 would be patently ridiculous to say that colonialism played no role whatsoever. I bring up the history simply to highlight a ...
104 Rizvi; I personally enjoy his keen mind and scru- pulously logical approach. The quotation from the Taliban supporter he tra ...
105 Now, again, I don’t want to get into the validity of any of these approaches, forever cherry- picking the so- called moderat ...
106 down to honoring covenants and treaties— a duty that I can’t imagine any serious Muslim believes will trump the obligation t ...
107 some very ugly truths— which puts one in mind of the doctrine of taqqiya, wherein it is said that Mus- lims are encouraged t ...
108 was a Sanhedrin— a supreme religious council that hasn’t existed since the time of the Romans. “Okay,” I said, “so what happ ...
109 ties, the serpent of theocracy may be hiding some- where in the shadows. I worry that if things were to change, and we had a ...
110 war footing with all infi dels, so the point is prob- ably moot. Nawaz It’s irrelevant because I could be doing taqqiya now ...
111 used theological reasoning to develop the idea of dhimma into the modern context of citizenship. The fatwa itself didn’t go ...
112 condemning the Islamic State is better than no fatwa. Also, I made a point when I encouraged Dr. Hasan to embark upon this t ...
113 onate. These people think only in religious terms, and you know this because of your conversations with Orthodox Jewish rabb ...
114 I’m careful to say that we are not at war with all (or even most) Muslims. But it seems to me that no matter how carefully o ...
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