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October 20, 2005
President Bush On Islam And Terrorism: 'He still doesn't quite get it!'
Topics: Understanding Islam
When President Bush told Muslim leaders and diplomats at an Iftar dinner that "all responsible Islamic leaders" must denounce terrorists who claim to act according to Islam. he quoted Qur'an 5:32, "which states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all of humanity, and saving the life of one person is like saving all of humanity."
What our president and most Americans haven't figured out yet is that jihadists contend that no Americans or Israelis are innocent, and therefore the verse doesn't apply to their actions.
Robert Spencer suggests that Mr. Bush read the whole thing, and consults the mainstream tafasir (commentaries) to discover how traditional Islam has understood passages such as 9:5 and 9:29, and 8:39, which reads:
"And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah." Tafasir-i-Husaini, to take just one example, explains: "Fight them till all strife be at an end," that is, until "no polytheists remain of the pagans or Jews or Christians." (vol. i, p. 239).. In other words, until the "polytheistic" features of Judaism and Christianity are eradicated, which means, until the Jews and Christians have become Muslims.
Posted by Richard at October 20, 2005 9:28 PM
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