Reply #83: But Islamic Law DOESN'T Apply to NON-MUSLIMS

[liberalpragmatist]

I direct you to this blog post from a Muslim group blog. This post was linked from the website I'm linking to:

http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/275

Well, “Islam” is a concept, not a agent. Thus it’s not “Islam” that forbids anything, but the (human) authorities on Islamic law. And, it’s not the “depiction of the religion’s founder Muhammad” that is forbidden, but either the depiction of any of God’s creatures (but particularly humans) OR the slander of a prophet - be it Muhammad or Moses or Jesus or Abraham, etc.

Slandering a prophet would, however not fall under something like “slander” or “hate crime”, but actually be seen as “kufr”, i.e. unbelief/apostasy, as the assertion that a prophet was anything but a noble man . Of course, that only applies to Muslims. There is no provisio (sic) in Islamic law how to deal with non-Muslims who disparage a prophet, as they already are unbelievers. Also, the legal authorities in the Muslim world are quite unanimous in their verdict(s) that Muslims living in non-Muslim polities (i.e., states) should adhere to the law of the one in which they reside or travel.

Also, for those of you who are asking "where are the Moderate Muslims?"

Well, try the blog linked to from the above site.

Also, check out this article from the Times of London: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2025704,00.html

Muslims tell Yard to charge protesters

By Abul Taher and David Leppard

BRITAIN’s leading Islamic body yesterday called on Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to press charges against the extremists behind last week’s inflammatory protests in London over the “blasphemous” cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

This weekend bitter protests continued across the Muslim world with hundreds of demonstrators storming the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, Syria, setting fire to them both.

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In London, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said the extremists should be prosecuted. “The Metropolitan police should now consider all the evidence they have gathered from the protests to see if they can prosecute the extremists,” he said.

“It is time the police acted, but in a way so as not to make them martyrs of the Prophet’s cause, which is what they want, but as criminals. Ordinary Muslims are fed up with them.”