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| THE ISLAMIC URGE TO VOTE |
| 2004-10-11 |
| It is a rather surprising by product of the War on Terror: For the first time, a consensus seems to be emerging among Islamic authorities worldwide that Muslims in the West should participate in democratic politics. Before taking credit for this, President Bush might note that these authorities tend to favor votes for his opponent. But Sen. John Kerry's pleasure in that must be tempered by the awareness that those authorities favor him only because they are quite sure he will permit the undoing of Bush's work in Afghanistan and Iraq. The emerging consensus could become a turning point for Islamic theology. It drives a hole in the cardinal concept of "association and exoneration" (al-wala'a wa al-bara'a), which means that Muslims should steer clear of non-Muslims, and associate only with fellow believers. The consensus also challenges the classical Islamic division of the world into two parts: the House of Faith (Dar al-Iman), meaning Muslim countries, and "The House of War" (Dar al-Harb Dar), meaning countries ruled by the "infidel." The emerging view, it seems, would allow for a third category of countries to be recognized as the "House of Truce" (Dar al-Sulh), of which the United States would be one. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Does Kerry & his brownshirts believe 9-11 was a mere "nuisance". The relatives of 9-11's murdered and the scores of living burn & other victims of Islamic terrorisim should find Kerry's term very interesting on Election Day. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-11 8:10:35 PM |
| #6 I recommend publicization to draw out the backlash vote -- then disenfranchisement wherever possible while Dems are busy with the so-called "disenfranchised black vote" -- let's make it true, but not in the way they were thinking >:D |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-10-11 3:42:39 PM |
| #5 "...the Koran, which contains all possible and imaginable knowledge of the past, the present and the future..." Flashback to Johnny Carson as Karnak. Ed: "Everything that was ever worth knowning is in that book!" Karnak: "You are wrong, fatwa breath!" Seriously, a strong Muslim support for Kerry, if well publicized, will probably be offset by a non-Muslim backlash vote. I can picture the campaign button: a WTC image with the words "Kerry, Atta boy!" |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-11 2:48:35 PM |
| #4 Bingo, BH. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-11 1:04:23 PM |
| #3 Almost 60% would vote for Kerry. That means that almost 40% would vote for Bush. Just off the top of my head, isn't that slightly higher than the Hispanic vote for Bush? I gather Al Gore got 62% to Bush's 35% of the Hispanic vote. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-10-11 10:53:57 AM |
| #2 Same for the "Islamic vote" - to be burdened by and shackled to a static intellectual quagmire of 1400 yrs of utter indifference to this world, save for spreading Islam by force -- poor confused indoctrinated backward brutal smooth-brained fuckwits. Sucks to be you. Thanks to Allan that truth is of no consequence in Islam - their "theologians" can decide to do whatever serves their end and justify it with any prose that is palatable to the MSM. Somebody will print it, pretend it isn't disingenuous bullshit, and gush over / commiserate with it - as the case may require. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-11 10:49:35 AM |
| #1 But Sen. John Kerry’s pleasure in that must be tempered by the awareness that those authorities favor him only because they are quite sure he will permit the undoing of Bush’s work in Afghanistan and Iraq. I don't think his pleasure is tempered at all. I'm sure he's more than happy to whore for their vote in this way. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-10-11 10:34:26 AM |