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Mutilation of Victims and Muslim Law

(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - Does normative Islamic law authorize Muslims to mangle the bodies of non-Muslims they have killed? Indeed, this practice has become a signature of the evil we are fighting, as the news of the last few months has shown. We are in a war to the death with an enemy whose deepest civilizational values come straight out of the 8th century. In the world that they would impose on us all, there is no dissent, no pluralism, no path to God but theirs - and no mercy or tolerance for those who might choose a different path. Our enemies make no secret of their intentions: We will bow to their totalitarian idea of Islam, or we will be killed. Ultimately it is up to the world's moderate, modern Muslims to rise up against the barbarians in their midst. Until that day comes, there is nothing the West can do to ameliorate or appease this enemy. We can only destroy it - or be destroyed.
2004-06-17 00:00:00
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