Book review continued:
WALLACE TOM Jr. (2015) Refuting Islam, The Christian Patriots Guide to Exposing the Evils of Islam, Bellingham, Fundamental Publishers.
Mr. Wallace reasons that the best English source for learning about Islam is not the Qu'ran, nor it is the Sunnah. (58). The author suggests a classic text on Islamic law titled Reliance of the Traveller (ROT). (58)
I have noted my academic approach that original primary sources should still be cited, but can acknowledge the importance of ROT.
This text, according to Mr. Wallace will state an Islamic law, provide an interpretation, and then provide a source (s) from the Qu'ran and/or the Sunnah. (58). Mr. Wallace explains the ROT (Reliance of the Traveller), (1991) documents that it is an obligation for every able-bodied man to participate in Jihad. (74).
Note in context this is warfare Jihad, not the idea of inner struggle Jihad, for the Muslim.
Citation from ROT
WHO IS OBLIGED TO FIGHT IN JIHAD
09.4 Those called upon (0: to perform jihad when it is a communal obligation) are every able bodied man who has reached puberty and is sane. (601).
Citation from ROT
THE OBJECTIVES OF JIHAD
o9.R Thc caliph (025) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: 01 L4)-which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (0: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (0: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
'Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9:29)...(602)
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Based on Mr. Wallace's text and the ROT which summarizes law from the Qu'ran and Sunnah, any Islamic mosque, organization or individual that takes these teachings reasonably literally in regard to warfare, if holding to consistent theology, will in actuality oppose Western values of democracy, liberty and freedom of religion.
Fortunately, I reason this will not be the majority of Western Muslims, that will likely take a more liberal approach to Islamic scripture and embrace many secular values in regard to democracy, liberty and freedom of religion.
Reliance of the Traveller, (1991) Amana Publications, Beltsville, Maryland. The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law 'Umdat al-Salik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1368) in Arabic with Facing English Text, Commentary, and Appendices Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller.
WALLACE TOM Jr. (2015) Refuting Islam, The Christian Patriots Guide to Exposing the Evils of Islam, Bellingham, Fundamental Publishers.
