.... Haitham al-Haddad complains (about 17:50) that it has been implied that he supports hudud punishments in the West, right now. Of course there is some difference between calling for such punishments in the UK and saying they should be practiced in an Islamic state – but it still means that Haddad’s ideal is a horrific theocracy.
There was a strange moment around 30.00 when he seems to claim that his support for very young girls marrying is only a semantic quibble – he asserts that Muslims ‘call this marriage, you call it something else’. [Harry’s Place] Read more
