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Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam (32 page)
151 Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Family planning, Contraception and Abortion in Islam: Undertaking Khilafah: Moral Agency, Justice and Compassion,” in
Sacred Choices: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions
, edited by D. Maguire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
152 S. M. Rizvi, “Marriage and Morals in Islam.”
www.al-islam.org/m_morals/chap4.htm
.
153 SayyidSabiq,
Fiqhu
’
l-Sunnah
, special edition, vol. 2, (Cairo: ShirkahManar al-Dawliyyah, 1997), p. 334. Quoted
http://al-mawrid.org/pages/questions_english_detail.php?qid=374&cid=227#_ftn3
.
154 Tom Ehrlich, “Where does God stand on abortion?,”
USA Today
, August 13, 2006.
155 Sherman Jackson,
Islam and the Blackamerican: looking toward the third resurrection
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 151.
156 Barbara Crossette, “Vatican Drops Fight Against U.N. Population Document,”
New York Times
, September 10, 1994.
157 Nina Bernstein, “In Secret, Polygamy Follows Africans to N.Y.,”
New York Times
, March 23, 2007.
158 Nicholas Hellen, “Muslim second wives may get a tax break,”
The Times of London,
December 26, 2004;
www.muslimparliament.org.uk/about.htm
.
159 “Two wives,”
Jerusalem Post
, July 12, 2005.
160 Maryclaire Dale, “Pa. bigamist slain hours before trip,” Associated Press, August 8, 2007.
161 There have been a few notable exceptions. See, for example, Lornet Turnbull, “Opponents of gay-marriage law get unexpected aid: from Muslims,”
Seattle Times,
May 24, 2012.
162 Some Muslim sources render this as “I divorce you.”
163 Bukhari, vol. 7, book 67, no. 5206.
164 Bukhari, vol. 5, book 63, no. 3894.
165 Bukhari, vol. 5, book 63, no. 3896; cf. Bukhari, vol. 7, book 67, no. 5158.
166 “Islamist leader threatens of waging Jihad,” Weekly Blitz, April 20, 2011.
167 “Fatwa: ‘It Is Permissible to Have Sexual Intercourse with a Prepubescent Girl,’”
Translating Jihad
, January 14, 2011.
168 Amir Taheri,
The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution
(Adler and Adler, 1986), 35.
169 Lisa Beyer, “The Women of Islam,”
Time
, November 25, 2001.
170 “Yemen: Ban on Child Brides Is Imperiled,” Associated Press, March 22, 2010.
171 “Human Rights Watch urges Yemen to ban child marriage, details plight of country’s child brides,” Associated Press, December 8, 2011.
172 “Outcry in The Hague over ‘pedo imam,’” Radio Netherlands Worldwide, December 6, 2011.
173 “Calls to end child marriages rejected,”
Straits Times
, December 8, 2010.
174 Pavan Amara, “Islington girls forced into marriage at the age of nine,”
Islington Tribune
, January 27, 2012.
175 “Flerahundra fall avbarnäktenskapi Sverige,”
Dagen
, April 20, 2011. Translated as “Several hundred cases of child marriages in Sweden,” translated by Nicolai Sennels, Jihad Watch, June 13, 2011.
176 Hilary Andersson, “Born to be a slave in Niger,
BBC News
, February 11, 2005.
177
Reliance of the Traveller
, o9.13.
178 “Egyptian Shaykh: Jihad Is Solution to Muslims’ Financial Problems,”
Translating Jihad
, May 31, 2011.
179 “Video: Shaykh al-Huwayni: ‘When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her,’”
Translating Jihad
, June 11, 2011.
180 “Video: Kuwaiti Activist: ‘I Hope that Kuwait Will Enact a Law for . . . Sex Slaves,’”
Translating Jihad
, June 22, 2011.
181 Raymond Ibrahim, “Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slavery,” FrontPage Magazine.com, June 6, 2011.
182 Graham Smith and Damien Gayle, “Grooming gang found GUILTY: Nine men shared girls aged 13 to 15 for sex and raped one up to twenty times a day,” Daily Mail, May 8, 2012; Dominic Casciani, “More than 2,000 children ‘victims of sex grooming,’” BBC News, June 29, 2011; James Tozer, “Police ‘hid’ abuse of 60 girls by Asian takeaway workers linked to murder of 14-year-old,” Daily Mail, April 8, 2011.
183 Brandon Gee, “Sex trafficking trial unusual in scope: As many as 23 will face jury simultaneously,”
Tennessean
, February 28, 2012.
184 Najafi Quchani,
Siyahat-e Sharq
(Tehran, 1984), 399-401. Quoted in BaqerMoin,
Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 30.
185 Benedict XVI, “Faith, reason and the university: memories and reflections,” Papal Address at University of Regensburg, September 12, 2006.
186 Khaled Abu Toameh, “Gazans warn pope to accept Islam,”
Jerusalem Post
, September 18, 2006.
187 “Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI,”
Islamica Magazine
, issue 18, 25, October 13, 2006.
http://islamicamagazine.com/?p=634
.
188 “Sheikh Ahmad Abu Quddum of Jordan’s Tahrir Party Discusses Jihad Against Germany, Pledges to Impose ‘Jizya’ Poll Tax on Non-Muslims, and Vows to Annihilate Israel,” Middle East Media Research Institute, December 12, 2011.
189 “Jordanian Sheik Nader Tamimi, Mufti of the Palestinian Liberation Army, to the West: We Will Restore the Caliphate and You Will Pay the Jizya ‘or Else We Will Bring the Sword to Your Necks,’” Middle East Media Research Institute, December 15, 2011.
190 Sandro Magister, “The Mayor of Bethlehem Is Christian, But It’s Hamas That’s in Charge,” Chiesa, December 29, 2005.
191 Moses Maimonides,
The Guide for the Perplexed
, M. Friedländer, trans. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004), 220-221.
192 Quoted in Pamela Geller, “‘Rediscovered’ Another Museum Exhibit of Muslim Lies,” AtlasShrugs.com, February 21, 2012.
193
Sahih Muslim
, book 19, no. 4294.
194
Reliance of the Traveller,
o9.0.
195
Reliance of the Traveller
, o9.8.
196
Al-Hidayah
, vol. Ii. P. 140, quoted in Thomas P. Hughes,
A Dictionary of Islam
(W.H. Allen, 1895), “Jihad,” 243-248.
197
Al-Hidayah
, vol. Ii. P.140, in Thomas P. Hughes, “Jihad,” in
A Dictionary of Islam
, (London: W.H. Allen, 1895), 243-248.
198 IbnKhaldun,
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
, translated by Franz Rosenthal; edited and abridged by N. J. Dawood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), 183.
199 Ibn Taymiyya, “Jihad,” in Rudolph Peters,
Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam
(Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996), 49.
200 “A Common Word between Us and You (Summary and Abridgement),” A Common Word,
www.acommonword.com/index.php?lang=en&page=option1
.
201 Alan Cooperman, “For Victims, Strong Words Were Not Enough,”
Washington Post
, April 3, 2005.
202 Pope John Paul II, “Homily of the Holy Father: ‘Day of Pardon,’” March 12, 2000.
www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000312_pardon_en.html
.
203
Ecumenical Jihad
, 30.
204 Sayyid Qutb,
Milestones
, Mother Mosque Foundation, n.d., 263.
205 “Muslim scholars’ olive branch to Christians,”
Telegraph
, October 12, 2007.
206 Peter Graff, “Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians,” Reuters, October 11, 2007.
207 Dinesh D’Souza, “Muslims Who Renounce Violence,” AOL.com, February 20, 2008.
208 “Declaration on Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue,”
Jordan Times
, December 17, 2010.
209 Benedict XVI, Address at Queen Alia International Airport of Amman, May 8, 2009.
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2009/may/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20090508_welcome-amman_en.html
.
210 Benedict XVI, Address at the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, Jordan, May 9, 2009.
211 Benedict XVI, Address at the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, Jordan, May 9, 2009.
212 David Kerr, “Pope calls Lebanese youth to ‘revolution of love,’” Catholic News Agency, September 15, 2012.
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Time for an “Ecumenical Jihad”?
An Honest Desire for Dialogue?