{"id":1873,"date":"2009-04-14T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2009-04-14T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:17:43","slug":"killing-of-apostates-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/killing-of-apostates-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing of apostates in context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=527653\">Chaplain&#8217;s E-mail Sparks Controversy<\/a>:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a private e-mail to a student last week, Abdul-Basser wrote that there was &#8220;great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [for apostates]) and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe he doesn&#8217;t belong as the official chaplain,&#8221; said one Islamic student, who asked that he not be named to avoid conflicts with Muslim religious authorities. &#8220;If the Christian ministers said that people who converted from Christianity should be killed, don&#8217;t you think the University should do something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Basser wrote in a later e-mailed statement that he &#8220;never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally.&#8221; He explained that he was not advocating for the positions mentioned in his e-mail, but rather &#8220;addressing them in the context of the evolution of an Islamic legal doctrine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1805\">Harvard Muslim chaplain on the wisdom of killing apostates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain&#8217;s E-mail Sparks Controversy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[223,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}