CAIRO, Egypt, January 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar, considered by many to be the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning in the world, has issued an edict declaring that women who become pregnant because of a rape must abort their child.
Not “may”, must. Unfortunately, there’s no Moslem pope.
I can’t find any comment from Bruce Tefft on this yet. Since Bruce thinks that Islam is unreformable, this obviously didn’t happen.
January 4, 2008 at 9:37 pm |
True, Islam has not, can not be reformed, because of its own precepts. If one accepts, as Muslims must, that Allah is a god (and therefore infallible) and that the Koran was written directly by him in Paradise and passed to Mohamhead, who subsequently died, then there is nothing one can do to ‘reform’ (i.e. change) Islam…what you see (Koran from Allah) is what you get. Even the suggestion of ‘changing’ or ‘reinterpreting’ Koranic verse is considered blasphemy, and, in Islam, that is punishable by death.
B
January 5, 2008 at 3:48 am |
It isnot nearly so hard and fast as that. God said this, but it’s possible to say that he meant something different and merely speaking metaphorically. An eye for an eye is a good example: long before New Testament times, it had become accepted among Jews that God did not want a literal implementation of that declaration–that what was really wanted was monetary compensation–the worth of an eye for injury to an eye. That is possible in Islam. The problem is that such an approach is used far more rarely that it can be in Islam. But the approach is not inherently forbidden among Moslems.
(And, btw, to say that Allah wrote the Koran is to misrepresent Islamic belief about the Koran, which is viewed more as the “inlibration”–the incarnation or emanation or revelatory vessel–of Allah, with a connection between the two that is much more intimate and stronger than mere authorship.)