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...1960s, the Islamic ideology Takfir wal Hijra began to win adherents among extremist groups. One of them, the Society of Muslims, was led by Shukri Mustafa, an agricultural engineer. Mustafa denounced other Muslims as unbelievers and preached a "withdrawal" into a purity of the kind practiced by the Prophet Muhammad when he withdrew from Mecca to Medina. The ideology is particularly dangerous because it provides a religious justification for slaughtering not just unbelievers but also those who think of themselves as Muslim. Intensely undemocratic-for to accept the authority of anyone but God would be a blasphemy-Takfir wal Hijra...
...then it says this: “If you slaughter, do not cause the discomfort of those you are killing, because this is one of the practices of the Prophet, peace be upon...
...nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics and political leaders to explicitly condemn terrorism in all its forms as fundamentally incompatible with the teachings of the Prophet, terrorists will continue to rise from Middle Eastern soil like a cloud of locusts in a field...
...Koranic spirit of “justice and kindness” rather than a belligerent heart, formed the hallmark of the Prophet’s dealings with the peaceful non-Muslim communities around him. So impressed, for example, were the Jews of Medina with the fairness of the Prophet that they often asked him to resolve their disputes according to Jewish law. The tolerance inherent in Islam lived on long after the Prophet. When the Spanish Inquisition drove the Jews (and Muslims) out of Spain, they found refuge in the Ottoman Empire, where many served in high official positions...
...Although Douthat did not make this error intentionally, his failure to check his sources on such a fundamental matter results in misinformation and bad journalism. However, reading these verses in these terms would make sense if and only if the rest of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet that serve to explain and complement the Koran are blithely ignored. How many times has the verse Matthew 10:34—“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword?...