Tammy, even shorter than this please.
Islam slipped into the inquisition stage.
Turkey escaped it but goes back to it now.
The Islamic Republic Iran and the Saudi Royal Rulers are fueling the inquisition.
Let us enlighten the Muslims.
Like many but not Christians have done it. Put the inquisition out of business.
Long live secular humanity.
Pitch perfect, Tammy, and with the relationship between language, auto-induction, heart, and action laid out plain. --Jim
Tangential question: CNN is reporting that the Libyan jihadist group LIFG, in issuing a 417 page document "The Jihadi Code", defining (among other things) the "rules" of jihad, has essentially repudiated Al Quada.
CNN points to this quote in particular: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners of war in a good way. Standing by those ethics is what distinguishes Muslims' jihad from the wars of other nations."
Documentary on this scheduled for 11/15.
Your thoughts?
CalOldBlue.
I am fairly intimately acquainted with the al-Qa'ida ideological territory.
Not sure on the document which you are referencing.
I do read many primary source documents, things translated from Persian, Urdu and Arabic.
On the specifics of Jihad: There is a tremendous amount of literature available. Rules of engagement are fairly standardized regarding many issues.
Hadith literature provides the bulk of information but other Qur'anic sciences have play.
I am currently reading something written in 1730 with abridgement and adaptation by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahab. These thoughts transect with other literature I have read.
Tammy
CalOldBlue,
I did not adequately finish my thoughts earlier. I was on break at work.
*The blog is never a good place to jump start anyone with Islamic studies. But just some basics:
Qur'an is divided into two distinct timelines: The Makki revelations (given in Makkah/Mecca) and the Madani revelations (from the time when Muhammad was in Madinah/Medina).
The earliest instruction involved the tying of the hands in adversity. This was later abrogated as the Muslims became tactically sufficient to oppose the adjacent tribes and clans. Hence you have what are termed the ayat of the sword. It is during the second era that the term qatl (a derivative which means "kill") came into existence in the Qur'an.
This progression for war is the following in the Qur'an:
Self Defense
Taking up of Arms
Waging war against polytheists.
Hope this helps.
Tammy
lol...
"Enlighten the Muslims"...
It is actually more likely for this to happen than for materialists to be objective...or accurate... about Christianity.
Ahhh the logical fallacy of moral equivalence, so often applied by the harbingers of reason. In Lennonist (Imagine) utopia, all virtue and violence is subject to the whims of men...all of them gods to themselves.
"In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.”
"Atheism Kills"-Dinesh D’Souza
Christian Science Monitor, 11/21/06
This week has allowed the blog readership a small glimpse into the "world of ideas" in which I have dwelt for many years, Bob.
Even as I write this, my thoughts are moving toward the conversation I have had today with a well-recognized North Texas imam. The scholarly Ummah is also becoming cognitive on greater levels of the need to move into strengthened play within their own ranks regarding what is moving across the internet - the distinct potentiated dynamics of Jihad and asymmetrical warfare.
Truth, remains the best of disinfectants. Unfortunately, it is also a despised commodity in some quarters.
Tammy Swofford
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