{"id":2351,"date":"2010-01-22T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:07:05","slug":"jihad-seminar-explained-durie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/01\/22\/jihad-seminar-explained-durie\/","title":{"rendered":"Jihad seminar explained-Durie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major Nidal M. Hasan’s Jihad Seminar Explained<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Mark Durie<\/a>\u00a0is a thorough and fair analsis of\u00a0Major Hasan’s thinking. The conclusion\u00a0in part,<\/p>\n

It is essential to grasp that the views which Major Hasan describes in his seminar are not obscure, extreme or marginal.\u00a0 They are integral to Islamic tradition and the Koran’s teachings on warfare and justice.\u00a0 These views can also be corroborated from the great Koranic commentaries of the past 14 centuries.\u00a0 The presentation is also informed and judicious in its use of sources: Major Hasan cites all the right verses for the points he makes.\u00a0 Moreover his presentation is transparent and truthful.<\/p>\n

All in all these powerpoint slides suggest a heart-felt plea, in which Major Hasan requests, with clarity and consistency, that a Muslim in the military not be asked to serve in a context where he or she will have to fight against ‘fellow Muslims’, particularly if the war is regarded by Muslims as an unjust one.\u00a0 To do this is to force them to choose between hell and mutiny.
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\nThis is not the voice of someone consumed by hatred or malice.\u00a0 It does however speak of someone who has become trapped by their worldview, and is, with terrifying conviction and clarity of mind, contemplating what it would mean to take the lives of his fellow soldiers, driven on by the inescapable logic of deeply held religious beliefs.
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\nIt is high time that the US Military paid adequate attention to such beliefs, resisting the temptation to ignore them in the name of political correctness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0See my earlier post referring to Mark Durie’s research re Major Hasan’s Islamic dilemma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major Nidal M. Hasan’s Jihad Seminar Explained\u00a0by Mark Durie\u00a0is a thorough and fair analsis of\u00a0Major Hasan’s thinking. The conclusion\u00a0in part, It is essential to grasp that the views which Major Hasan describes in his seminar are not obscure, extreme or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}