The Real Context
Austrolabe:
Whilst people, clerics included, are free to say whatever they wish, the problem here is that a diverse community of 300,000 Muslims is being made accountable for the pronouncements of anyone that the media anoints as a “Muslim cleric”.
The next excerpt provides unintentional humor:
Sunni Islam is one of the world’s few laissez-faire religions: there is no clerical class, hierarchy, or Supreme Leader. Each individual Muslim is responsible for the practice and interpretation of their own faith.
The term laissez-faire doesn't come to mind when I think of sharia. Still, the fact that individual Muslims have different opinions on varied small issues doesn't imply that the majority disagrees with the "uncovered meat" remarks.
In addition, the fact that most Muslims have an umma vs. infidel mentality gets us this cheerful news:
Prove that Muslims can't be led by a man who says raped women must be "jailed for life". Prove we have nothing to fear from your faith.
Simple? Yet yesterday [November 2, 2006] 34 Muslim groups signed a petition backing this bigot, while others plan a big rally for Sydney tomorrow, denouncing not Hilaly but the non-Muslims who criticise him.
But, of course.
The Saudi regime punishes rape victims with lashes and the Iranian thugs stone adulterous women to death in public. In the name of Islam. Why don't Muslims in the West protest against such evil?
Where are the laissez-faire Muslims?
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