In the January 6 issue of the New York Times Book Review, Tariq Ramadan has an essay that argues, in its essence, that non-believers cannot really read or understand the Koran-because it speaks exclusively to believers.
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This leads directly to the issue raised by the decision of the Joint Chiefs to not allow attorney and US Army intelligence reserve Major Stephen Coughlin to continue with his work on Islamic law in the Pentagon.
The main problem for the Islamists such as Hasham Islam, and their fellow travelers, such as ISNA, MPAC, Fiqh Council and AMCE, inside and around the Pentagon who worked to get rid of him, is that Coughlin, as a non-Muslim, and a legal scholar, with decade of experience in legal texts working for Westlaw and LexisNexis, as well as in military intelligence, often knew the Islamic texts better than the Islamists themselves. Coughlin’s MA thesis is in Islamic law. My full blog is here.
You don’t say… Well, now it’s written for initiated people … who in a huge majority of Islamic world have ONLY read the Koran.
This people amaze me each day more…
Comment af Nora aka LV — 15 januar 2008 @ 21:37
You’re abolutely right, how many muslims do read at all?
Comment af hodja — 15 januar 2008 @ 22:39
Tjah, Mein Kampf kan heller ikke forstås af os andre, for den er skrevet til nazister.
Argumentet er lige så dumt som Ramadan selv.
Comment af rettentilselvforsvar — 16 januar 2008 @ 01:59
La frase de la semana
Los no-creyentes no pueden leer ni entender el Corn porque est escrito para los creyentes.
Tariq Ramadan.(Link in English).
Trackback af Spanish Pundit — 17 januar 2008 @ 20:46