Ayaan Hirsi Ali erregt sich zu Recht über das peinliche Schweigen, mit dem viele so genannte moderate Muslime über die schrecklichen Fälle „islamischer Justiz“ hinweggehen, die in den letzten Wochen Schlagzilen machten – die Verurteilung einer Vergewaltigten in Saudi-Arabien, die Teddybär-Mohammed-Affäre im Sudan (nun, da gab es lobenswerte Ausnahmen) und die Hatz auf Taslima Nasrin in Indien.
Die Karikaturen haben den Mob auf die Strasse gebracht, über den Menschenrechten und jedem Anstand Hohn sprechenden Urteile im Namen der Scharia wird geschwiegen:
„I wish there were more Islamic moderates. For example, I would welcome some guidance from that famous Muslim theologian of moderation, Tariq Ramadan. But when there is true suffering, real cruelty in the name of Islam, we hear, first, denial from all these organizations that are so concerned about Islam’s image. We hear that violence is not in the Koran, that Islam means peace, that this is a hijacking by extremists and a smear campaign and so on. But the evidence mounts up.
Islamic justice is a proud institution, one to which more than a billion people subscribe, at least in theory, and in the heart of the Islamic world it is the law of the land. But take a look at the verse above: more compelling even than the order to flog adulterers is the command that the believer show no compassion. It is this order to choose Allah above his sense of conscience and compassion that imprisons the Muslim in a mindset that is archaic and extreme.
If moderate Muslims believe there should be no compassion shown to the girl from Qatif, then what exactly makes them so moderate?
When a “moderate” Muslim’s sense of compassion and conscience collides with matters prescribed by Allah, he should choose compassion. Unless that happens much more widely, a moderate Islam will remain wishful thinking.“
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