25 August 2009

M. Cherif Bassiouni strikes back

M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law Emeritus and President Emeritus, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University, has responded to my email posted here with the 1,000-word email that follows.

You will note that nowhere in it does he resolve the contradiction in his statements about Islamic apostasy law that I asked him about in my email to him. I'll address that in more detail below. [Jihad Watch] Read more

More Blague from M. Cherif Bassiouni .... He does, after all, acknowledge that for more than a millennium, the four schools of Sunni jurisprudence have recognized that death is a suitable punishment for apostasy -- from Islam, bien entendu, the Only True Religion. [Jihad Watch] Read more