Tuesday, March 7, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Trans-Int: Islamic “Reformism” and Jihad: On the Discourse of Tariq Ramadan by Paul Landau - '...The only limitation proposed by Tariq Ramadan concerns the age of the shahid. “The decision requires that the person who takes it has attained at least the age of puberty,” he says. This means, in more explicit terms, that thirteen-year-old children may commit suicide-attacks. Thus once it has been decrypted, the genuine message of Tariq Ramadan appears far less innocent than upon first glance. Behind the reassuring appearance of a “Muslim reformist”, partisan of a modern European Islam, there appears to lurk an apologist for suicide-attacks, for “human bombs” and child-soldiers.'
