Nov 17 2008

Negotiating with Islam: Does Obama know this?

Category: Islamharmonicminer @ 10:13 am

Jihad Watch: Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam’s Doctrines of Deception”

To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable human act is categorized as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible, recommended, or obligatory. “Common sense” or “universal opinion” have little to do with Islam’s notions of right and wrong. All that matters is what do Allah (via the Koran) and his prophet Muhammad (through the Hadith) have to say about any given thing; and how Islam’s greatest theologians and jurists—collectively known as the ulema, literally, the “ones who know”—have articulated it.

Consider the concept of lying. According to sharia, deception in general—based on the Koran’s terminology, also known as “taqiyya”—is not only permitted in certain situations but sometimes “obligatory.” For instance, and quite contrary to Christian tradition, not only are Muslims who must choose between either recanting Islam or being put to death permitted to lie by pretending to have apostatized; but some jurists have decreed that, according to Koran 4:29, Muslims are obligated to lie.

Much, much more at the link, and all worth reading.

UPDATE:  It seems the link above is broken.  I’ll investigate to see if the post was taken down.

UPDATE: The link is still broken. Here is another link by the same author that makes many of the same points.

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