“Islamophobie von Muslimen”
Titelt * die Pakistan Daily Times in Ihrem Aufmacher. Weiter:
Two unidentified men on a motorcycle on Wednesday shot the editor of the Islamic journal, Ishraq, in front of the office of Al Mawrid Research Institute run by the country’s top Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, in Model Town Extension, Lahore.
Der Anschlag scheint mit der Reform jener Gesetze zu stehen, welche die Anwendung der koranischen Strafen für Ehebruch und Vergewaltigung regeln (Hudood Ordinance):
Mr Ghamidi, whose institute was attacked, is an enlightened Islamic scholar of repute. In the past six months his defence of moderate Islam has been aimed at changing the extremist trend in the country. In particular, his mastery of the sources of Islamic law has swung the extreme posture adopted by most Pakistanis regarding Hudood laws to a more temperate view. One can say that without him the debate on changing the Hudood could not have been won despite the efforts of the mainstream political party, the PPP, in parliament. So thin is the genuine grasp of Islam among politicians that they don’t even dare initiate a campaign to repeal clerically recommended laws that are repugnant to human dignity. It is to Mr Ghamidi that the government owes the general acceptance of its legislation amending the unjust Hudood laws.
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The incident will have the effect of scaring off most people emboldened by Ghamidi’s outspokenness. It was a shot across the bow that we know will succeed because it has been the modus operandi of the Islamists all over the world. They accuse the West of suffering from Islamophobia, from a bias against Muslims that is based on irrational fear. Indeed, the term has rightly been accepted by liberals in the West who warn their societies against acting out of hatred for a community that is not composed of just terrorists. But the reality of fear among Muslim societies cannot be denied too. Moderates and courageous intellectual nay-sayers are not tolerated. They are often attacked and subjected to physical injury. Western institutions are full of such people simply because they could not live in their own societies and survive.
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