Edward Said<\/a>\u00a0for being an Orientalist \u2014 or, according to Said, for being a \u201ctool\u201d of colonialism and imperialism, not a \u201ctrue\u201d scholar.<\/p>\nThe passage that impressed me for its forthrightness follows. After discussing the Five Pillars of Islam, Brockelmann wrote:<\/p>\n
Besides these five canonical duties, which are regarded as inviolable, the Muslim\u2019s entire private and public life is encompassed by a multiple chain of prescriptions, the observation of which is likewise part of the religion\u2026<\/p>\n
The Muslim may show only hostility to infidels when encountered: war against them is a religious duty. Idol-worshippers must always be attacked without more ado, Jews and Christians, however, only after they have ignored a summons, made three times, to accept Islam. After defeat the men are to be killed, women and children to be sold into slavery. Whoever is killed in the Holy War is sure of paradise, as a martyr. In addition, it is permitted to conclude treaties with Jews and Christians, following the example of the Prophet\u2026 But the obligation of the Holy War is merely postponed by such contracts, not annulled\u2026.<\/p>\n
A child\u2019s legitimacy does not depend on the position of the mother, but only on its recognition by the father\u2026. [T]he slave, whether taken captive in war or purchased, or born in the household, is legally an object [of the Muslim master] that may be bequeathed in inheritance or given away\u2026.<\/p>\n
The penal code of Islam has remained on a rather primitive level and only marks a slight advance over the ancient pagan concepts of law\u2026.Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand, in case of relapse by additional maiming. Adultery is punished by a hundred strokes of a lash; but if an infidel seduces a Muslim woman, he is subject to the death penalty. Blasphemy with respect to God, the Prophet, and his predecessors is punishable by death, as is defection from Islam [apostasy], if the culprit persists in his disbelief (p. 43-45).<\/p>\n
While Islam\u2019s apologists may fume and rage at the \u201cIslamophobic\u201d nature of this passage, only one question matters: Are the points of this excerpt demonstrably true or not? In fact, they are true: From the life-pervading nature of sharia, to jihad against infidels and polytheists, to the praiseworthiness of martyrdom, to the temporary nature of \u201ctruces,\u201d to the inhuman status of the slave, to the draconian laws of sharia, including the killing of the apostate \u2014 all of these aspects make their appearance regularly in headlines and here onJihad Watch<\/em>, demonstrating their very real, and tenacious, nature within Islam.<\/p>\nBrockelmann knew as much; these were not issues open to debate or \u201cnuance.\u201d But, then again, Brockelmann lived in a very different era \u2014 when empirical facts, no matter how ugly or unpleasant, were never clouded or ignored simply to make people feel good about themselves, and others.<\/p>\n
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