.... I once heard a leader of the Muslim Council of Britain declare that he could not condemn or call for the outright abolition of lapidation – the stoning to death of women who sleep with a man not their husband – because to do so would be to go against the teaching of the Qur’an.
I could hardly believe my ears, hearing this in London from a fluent young man often treated on Newsnight and other BBC outlets as an authority on the Muslim condition in Britain.
[A COMMENT] Therein lies the problem radical Islam is basically mandated by the Qur'an and the Hadith. Like it not there is no getting away from that and that is why spiritualists such as the Sufi strain (many of which are also violent) are nonetheless condemned as being un-Islamic by the Islamic purists. Mel Phillips and Robert Spencer may be crude in some of their arguments, they have yet to be proven incorrect however. [openDemocracy] Read more
