Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Sharia Law in New York City
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243899/tolerant-pose-andrew-c-mccarthy
The Tolerant Pose
Intolerance is not just part of al-Qaeda, it is part of Islam.
Non-Muslims are barred from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina - not merely barred from building synagogues or churches, but barred, period, because their infidel feet are deemed unfit to touch the ground. This is not an al-Qaeda principle. Nor is it an "Islamist" principle. It is Islam, pure and simple.
"Truly the pagans are unclean," instructs the Koran's Sura 9:28, "so let them not . . . approach the Sacred Mosque." This injunction - and there are plenty of similar ones in Islam's scriptures - is enforced vigorously not by jihadist terrorists but by the Saudi government. And it is enforced not because of some eccentric sense of Saudi nationalism. The only law of Saudi Arabia is sharia, the law of Islam.
As Sunni scholarly commentary in the version of the Koran officially produced by the Saudi government explains, only Muslims are sufficiently "strict in cleanliness, as well as in purity of mind and heart, so that their word can be relied upon." Thus, only they may enter the holy cities. Authoritative Shiite teaching is even more bracing. As Iraq's "moderate" Ayatollah Ali Sistani - probably the world's most influential Shiite cleric - has explained, the touching of non-Muslims is discouraged, because they are considered to be in the same "unclean" category as "urine, feces, semen, dead bodies, blood, dogs, pigs, alcoholic liquors, and the sweat of an animal who persistently eats [unclean things]."
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