Tolle Islam-Ausgabe der New York Times Book Review. Darin ein Rezensions-Essay von Irshad Manji über die Theorie des gerechten Krieges in der Scharia.
Keineswegs ist es so, daß die islamischen Theologen und Juristen dem totalen Krieg gegen die Ungläubigen das Wort reden. Manji arbeitet in ihrer Lektüre interessante Paradoxien des islamischen Nachdenkens über gerechtfertigte Kriege heraus:
Take the just-war criterion of protecting innocents. One mainstream Muslim scholar has acknowledged that, in Kelsay’s words, a child’s death may be “foreseeable but unavoidable, as when an enemy’s military resources are deployed in the midst of a civilian population. … Soldiers whose actions take place under such conditions are excused from the guilt associated with unjust killing.” That ruling would let Israeli defense forces off the hook for collateral damage in their 2006 war in Lebanon, since Hezbollah deliberately operated in residential Beirut.
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