My latest in PJ Media:
Well, this was inevitable: As the Taliban have taken power in Afghanistan and declared their intention to impose Islamic law, the American establishment media has swung into action, ready as always to exonerate Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. And so it was that USA Today on Saturday published an article by one Hamid Khan, whose résumé is as predictable as it is revealing: He is “an adjunct professor of Islamic law at the University of Michigan Law, a national security fellow with the Truman National Security Project and an attorney with the U.S. government.” Of course he is. And he is here to tell us that the “Taliban doesn’t equal Islam,” and to complain that “news coverage of Afghanistan disserves a great religion.”
Khan claims counterfactually that “news outlets and commentators have recklessly referenced Islam, fundamentalism, Islamic law and Shariah with little, if any, context, definition or understanding of the religion and its complex layers of teachings, laws and people,” when actually the establishment media in the U.S., and in the West in general, has a long-established practice of downplaying and whitewashing Islam’s role in any Sharia-inspired atrocity.
Undaunted by facts, however, Khan claimed that “although Islamic law is frequently equated with the Sharia, they are not the same thing. Sharia is an Arabic term that means ‘a path to the source of water’ and is mentioned just once in the Quran; it is used to distinguish between an utterly whimsical path of lawlessness and a straight path bound by certitude.” In other words, it is Islamic law, the straight path bound by certitude.
Khan continued: “Yet, most of what has been described as Islamic law — including that articulated by the Taliban — is really a body of law produced by scholars trying to understand God’s will and the result of fallible human interpretation. There is no singular ‘lawbook’ for Islamic law.” He insists that “Islam is not a monolith,” and yet doesn’t produce even a single example of the Taliban violating any tenet of Islamic law, or any specific example of a Sharia tradition that differs from the ones the Taliban is implementing.
It will come as no surprise that he also doesn’t explain the Islamic basis for some of the Taliban’s more outrageous acts. For example, the Taliban have begun subjugating women and girls, in accord with this Qur’an passage: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend of their property. So good women are obedient, guarding in secret what Allah has guarded. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning and banish them to separate beds, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34).
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Rarely says
So 90% of muslims give ALL the rest a bad name.
I get it.
gravenimage says
Yep.
revereridesagain says
Way to sum it up.
JCA Reid says
What do you mean, just 90%??!! More like 99.999999%. We de-Nazified Europe…. long overdue to de-Islamicize the World!
gravenimage says
There are not enough free people on earth to de-Islamify the world, JCA–you are talking about 1.8 billion Muslims.
Best to isolate the Muslim world as much as possible–firstly, by stopping the importation of Muslims into our nations. When Islam was isolated we were largely safe from Jihad.
TruthWFree says
Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS…All doing what the false prophet Muhammad did.
gravenimage says
Yep.
gravenimage says
University of Michigan Professor: Taliban Doesn’t Equal Islam, News Coverage ‘Disserves a Great Religion’
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Blatant Taqiyya from Hamid Khan, who is himself a professor of Islamic law.
Not this dishonest Mohammedan doesn’t cite a single thing the Taliban is doing that is un-Islamic.
Wellington says
The games continue. Very destructive and deadly games at that.
Mark turnbull says
Islam is cancer the Taliban are doing what the Koran tells them Islamic law but you never hear any of the pathetic leftist Marxist controlled mainstream news media says anything negative about Islam same with government leaders and spineless politicians.
VRWC member77 says
This site is going to get a lot more traffic as a result of the actions of the demented fraud-in-THIEF. Unfortunately many lives are also going to be lost or grievously altered. It’s a shame that knowledge has to be gained at such a cost.
OLD GUY says
If you as a Christian or Jewish person expect to see love and peace from ISLAM you are in for a big surprise that you won’t like. Islam has the social skills of a caveman. Under islam if you want something you take it and you rape, murder and you use violence to control every aspect of life.
JCA Reid says
This guy is a stupid Muppet! Orwell said something about really highly intelligent people being really, really stupid. I just cannot see how you get academics, politicians etc. pandering to this perverted, degenerate, desert Nazi Ideology. The only reason there are Muslims is that it promises its Adult Male ALL the Sex Partners they want & they can rob/steal Loot they want.