Wednesday, July 5, 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.
Andrew Bostom: Islam: Back to the Future? - 'Judea Pearl (“The Future of Islam”), in responding to my essay, which focused quite narrowly on the Muslim doctrine of abrogation (of Koranic verses), offers both clarification, and more confusion. Pearl makes clear that he “…did not apply the ‘cultural baggage’ argument to Koranic verses” (i.e., this was wrongly attributed to him by Rabbi Steven Stein, not me, in a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed), and he does not “…dispute the centrality of Jihadist ideology in Muslim history, jurisprudence, theology and even modern outlook.” But while Pearl denies “attacking” the secular Muslim “apostate” Wafa Sultan, he certainly appears to do so in the approving way he paraphrases and quotes Rabbi Stein*, and the summary of his own exchange with Dr. Sultan...'
