To understand this, one must understand the role that Islam plays in the Muslim world. In the United States, when we have a grievance, we say, "That's unconstitutional! There ought to be a law." For us, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with its Bill of Rights are at the core of what we believe.
In the Muslim world, when someone has a grievance and says, "There ought to be a law!" they know that there is one. All the law that a Muslim needs is in the Qur'an and the Hadith, sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.
Just after 9/11, people would ask me, why do so many movements with political agendas take a religious name? Why are they called the Muslim Brotherhood, or Hizbullah, which means Party of God, or Hamas, which is an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement? I tell them that the Muslim approach to law and justice begins with religious language because secular movements have failed to deliver what Muslims want – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.What You Need To Know About The Ground Zero Mosque, The Cordoba Initative, and the Imam Behind Both Islamic Supremacist 911 Mega Mosque Imam Rauf's "Muslim Leader of the Future" Hater, Anti-Semite, Jihadist
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