That Allah does not forgive shirk and those who die upon shirk will not be forgiven by Him. Spreading peace across the world means spreading Islam across the world. First, Brown characterizes the hadd as something that is up to the discretion of the political ruler. Rivera has extensive professional experience working with the Department of Defense with a focus on the Middle East, “briefing senior military and allied officials.” He also worked on counterterrorism studies with the aforementioned CPOST.Part of understanding what Yaqeen stands for requires understanding its founder’s connections to the wider American political establishment. As we have seen, baseless philosophical musings on aqida also make appearances in the corpus of their work (See, for example, Humans Have God-like Powers).One example of this comes from Omar Edward Moad in his essay, “Honored Since Adam: Islam and the Value of Human Freedom.” This essay mainly speaks against what Moad terms “takfiri extremists” who don’t understand the value of humanity or reason itself.Who, in Moad’s view, correctly understands the value of reason?“Regarding human destiny, what can be arrived at through reason alone is, I think, succinctly expressed in Qur’anic verses like the one just mentioned: “Verily we created humanity in the best of molds, and then reduce him to the lowest of the low” (Qur’an 95:4-5), and also, “By time, verily man is in loss” (Qur’an 103:1-2).

Take her appearances with Reza Aslan, for example, which Yaqeen’s Dalia Mogahed is the patron of all of this. A good example comes from Yaqeen’s two-part series on “religious minorities under Islamic rule.” Throughout the essays, author Tesneem Alkiek extols the virtues of Muslims rulers in their tolerance for religious minorities.“The group-rights model, albeit unfamiliar to most of us today, was arguably a more effective system of pluralism.”The problem with Alkiek’s argument is its entire premise. Apostasy by itself is a perfectly normal act, even expected according to the modern, post-spiritual West. Does Parrot think that a world full of disbelief and disobedience to Allah is a “peaceful world”?“According to Ibn Rushd, only a minority of classical jurists appealed to abrogation to justify their opinion that peace with non-Muslims was forbidden unless Muslims were too weak to fight. Apostasy by itself is a perfectly normal act, even expected according to the modern, post-spiritual West. She developed courses in Arabic Studies that focused on the link between Islamic philosophy, language and culture. Or does it instill conviction in a false construction of Islam that has been tweaked and tuned to resemble Western values as closely as possible?This subterfuge is briefly laid bare when the Yaqeen authors quote feminist academic Judith Tucker on “male bias in Islamic Law.”“Judith Tucker was able to conclude, ‘Legal discourse did not reverse the strongly gendered character and male bias of Islamic legal precedent on divorce, but it did work to soften this bias by defining female rights and strictly regulating divorce procedures.’ In other words, judges proactively sought to protect the rights of women. The way that this is phrased makes it seem like there is a full spectrum of opinions on abortion in Islam — from not even allowing contraception to full autonomy of a wife to terminate well into the second trimester without even needing to be in agreement with her husband — and the scholars are evenly distributed between these two poles. What is their fate in the Afterlife? Isn’t what is good or valuable defined by Allah? The only difference with offensive jihad is that offensive jihad spreads the actual religion of truth and justice, i.e., Islam, not the false religion of “liberal human rights” and “Western economic interests.” This tyrannical liberal secular world order maintains such a tight, suffocating grip on Muslims that Muslims are not even allowed in many countries to mention the word jihad, yet night and day, the liberal secular regime bullies the world to abide by a legal framework that serves its interests and its “gods” at the expense of everyone else. When we go to the narration Parrott cites, we find that the full context is of Fath al-Makka. But here are some examples worth mentioning.In one recent interview, Suleiman is speaking with a Christian pastor and a female rabbi, and he says:“I hope we can get as close to each other once again as possible soon and I hope we can be able to transfer that love that that’s so apparent when we’re together once, again physically together.”Suleiman often expresses this kind of love and affection that goes beyond professional cordiality or even allyship.In one article, Suleiman expresses his deep sentiments for other religions:“I also believe that others should be afforded the same right to discover and practice what they believe to be true. He continues:“Framing the world into a conflict of ‘us versus them,’ [extremists] dehumanize the outsider and demonstrate no concern for his or her well-being. Their mythology may be summarized as comprising five key pillars: 1) Caliphal Utopianism; 2) Dehumanization in the name of Walaa’ wal-Baraa’; 3) Takfeerism; 4) Totalitarian Jihad; and 5) Apocalypticism.”What is disturbing is that all of these “key pillars” have a basis in orthodox Islam. So, what interpretation of this hadith makes sense then? For the wife, ta`a is obligatory whereas shura on the part of the husband is generally recommended. They would rather blatantly misrepresent the Quran, Sunna, and scholarly tradition in order to preserve liberal secular sensibilities about “religious freedom” and “human rights.”Parrott begins his argument by considering ayah 190 in Surat al-Baqara, “Fight in God’s cause against those who fight you, but do not overstep the limits: God does not love those who overstep the limits.”To explain this ayah, Parrott cites the tafsir of al-Baydawi:“The classical exegete al-Bayḍāwī (d. 1286) listed the initiation of hostilities, among other misdeeds, as a form of prohibited transgression: ‘[Do not transgress] means by initiating the fighting, or by fighting those protected by a peace treaty, or by fighting those who never received the call to Islam, or to commit mutilation or to kill whomever it has been forbidden to kill.’”When we go to the page from al-Baydawi’s tafsir, we see that Parrott has completely misrepresented Baydawi’s words.