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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themoderatevoice/~3/289554991/
| I’m a little surprised at those who took at face value Edward Luttwak’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times . In an astonishing article, Luttwak makes the case that a President Obama is likely to find his relationship with the Islamic world to be tense and volatile. The reason? As an “apostate” (his words, not mine), the Senator from Illinois would be subject to the death penalty under classical Shari’a law.
His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive).
With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools prescribe execution for all adults who leave the faith not under duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and hangings.
A brief note about the author before I get into the meat of his argument. Luttwak, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , is infamous for his article in Foreign Affairs , back in 1999, entitled “ Give War A Chance .” It’s a fascinating read in which Mr. Luttwak makes the case that the best approach to warfare is essentially to ‘let it rage’ until one side defeats the other. Genocide in Darfur? Le ... |
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