Imam misstated case in COD appearance

Imam Azam Akram provided smoke and not light in his Nov. 18 presentation at the College of DuPage on Islam.

Among his errors: the Qur'an indeed advocates beheading (Q 47:4). The stoning of women found guilty of adultery is found in Islamic hadithic literature (Sahih Muslim 17.4206). The hadithic literature is also regarded as divinely authoritative in Islam, as Imam Akram surely knows.

And more: crucifixion is mandated for all "who make war against Allah and His Apostle, and strive after violence in the earth" (Q 5:33). According to the Qur'an, making war against Allah and His Apostle is defined as wantonly living in disobedience to Allah and Muhammad and proffering a religion that contradicts Islam (Q 2:190-191; 10:13; 43:6-8). It also includes the occupation and control of a land previously occupied and controlled by an Islamic government (Q 22:39-40).

Imam Akram knows this. He also knows that the Qur'an (a) does not teach the separation of mosque and state, (b) maintains that qur'anic law supersedes all other man-made laws, such as the U.S. Constitution, and (c) only allows for religious pluralism for Christians and Jews, provided that they pay a tax (jizyah) and not seek to convert Muslims.

Imam Akram is also well aware of the Raid at the Wells of Muraysi (A.D. 626) where Muhammad staged an attack against a Jewish community near Medina and slaughtered all the Jewish men. Afterwards, he sanctioned the rape and slavery of all the Jewish women (Sahih Bukhari 5.59.459). This hadithic citation is affirmed by Muslim historians.

I am not the only one making such claims. Reformed Muslims, including such scholars as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and M. Zudhi Jasser, have written similarly - providing even more information than what I have mentioned in this brief article.

Robert Greer

Winfield