“We must adhere to Islam and Islam alone,” Mr Hanif told about 500 participants attending the convention in Lidcombe [western Sydney].Self-appointed despots. And just who would interpret the will of Allah to decide what is acceptable and what is haram? According to Hanif, the decision-making would be by a small, but all-powerful group of unelected men who claim to know everything better than all other people.“We should not be conned or succumb to the disingenuous and flawed narrative that the only way to engage politically is through the secular democratic process. It is prohibited and haram.”
He said democracy was incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker, and Muslim political involvement could not be based on “secular and erroneous concepts such as democracy and freedom.”
That kind of hellish dictatorial thinking got 262 million people killed in the 20th century, and that doesn’t count the wars, most of which were started because totalitarians wanted to snuff out individual freedom.
If Hanif enjoys oppression, perhaps he should hire someone to lock him up. No one would miss his bad ideas.
Frank Warner
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Posted by: Neo | July 06, 2010 at 10:03 AM