Re: Religious Dictation
Well, let’s be honest then.
No, I think we can be as dispassionate about it as others who do incessantly moralize over it. Many of said people can simultaneously have a calm discussion about shock-and-awe bombing campaigns in cities of a million+ people, or support of armed insurrections in far away lands employing some sanitized seasonal metaphor. It makes perfect sense to condemn ISIS’ practice of it given current international agreements in place, simply because it’s one of the few mutually beneficial agreements in place, unique in history. What is unjust about ISIS’ action is reintroducing something we, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, have universally agreed upon we don’t want ourselves or our loved ones to be a victim of. And yes, such agreements are valid within traditional Islamic jurisprudence.