A really odd but well-argued point on Obama’s religion and how it would affect the relationship between the US and the Muslim world at large.<\/p>\n
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother\u2019s Christian background is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
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His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is \u201dirtidad\u201d\u009d or \u201dridda,\u201d\u009d usually translated from the Arabic as \u201dapostasy,\u201d\u009d but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim\u2019s family may choose to forgive).<\/p>\n
With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools prescribe execution for all adults who leave the faith not under duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and hangings. (Some may point to cases in which lesser punishments were ordered \u2014 as with some Egyptian intellectuals who have been punished for writings that were construed as apostasy \u2014 but those were really instances of supposed heresy, not explicitly declared apostasy as in Senator Obama\u2019s case.)<\/p>\n
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At the very least, that would complicate the security planning of state visits by President Obama to Muslim countries, because the very act of protecting him would be sinful for Islamic security guards. More broadly, most citizens of the Islamic world would be horrified by the fact of Senator Obama\u2019s conversion to Christianity once it became widely known \u2014 as it would, no doubt, should he win the White House. This would compromise the ability of governments in Muslim nations to cooperate with the United States in the fight against terrorism, as well as American efforts to export democracy and human rights abroad.<\/p>\n
That an Obama presidency would cause such complications in our dealings with the Islamic world is not likely to be a major factor with American voters, and the implication is not that it should be. But of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world\u2019s Muslims is the least realistic. [President Apostate?<\/em><\/a> Edward N. Luttwak. New York Times. May 12 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I do not think it would adversely affect the US-Muslim world relationship as long as Obama administration’s foreign policy respects others more willingly.<\/p>\n
Whoa, Obama administration… I am jumping the gun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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