Why hasn’t that most learned of imams, Pope Francis, traveled to Stuttgart to explain to Sabine S. that the Islamic State has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islamic law?
Of course, that willful ignorance is not limited to Pope Francis. It is pandemic all over the West: denial and fantasy regarding Islamic theology and law, and total indifference to and ignorance of Islamic history.
“German ‘Islamic State’ bride jailed for 5 years,” DW, July 5, 2019:
A 32-year-old German woman on Friday was sentenced to five years in prison for being a member of the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist organization.
Sabine S. converted to Islam and moved to Syria and Iraq from the end of 2013 to August 2017 to live under IS rule, a court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart heard….
Prosecutors said the woman had married an IS fighter, who was previously unknown to her, shortly after her arrival in Syria….
The court heard how Sabine S. had praised life in IS-controlled territory in several blogs, with the aim of recruiting others. She also received weapons training.
At the start of the trial, the defendant said: “I wanted to live under Islamic law, but not fight.” She subsequently renounced her membership of the group.
Before leaving for the Middle East, Sabine S. lived with the father of her two children in Berlin, converting to Islam at the age of 22.
According to her own version of events, she became radicalized before she left….