Hirsi Ali Targeted

LGF on Sunday:

When ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Muslim groups tried to have her speech shut down. And they made it clear that if they had the power, and US law were written according to shari’a, Hirsi Ali would not simply be prohibited from speaking.

According to the president of the Johnstown Islamic Center, Imam Fouad ElBayly, she’d be dead.

And in a perfect example of the bizarre disconnect between reality and the shiny happy multicultural world of the media, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review calls this a “">debate on religious freedom.”

This isn’t in Afghanistan. It’s in Pittsburgh.

A Jihad Watch reader called the imam to confirm, who restated that the death sentence was the call of God, so he apparently has no choice about it.

Hirsi Ali concurs that he is following the Koran. Audio at HotAir.

Related posts: The Sublime Quran, A Hijab with Your Name on it.

UPDATE: Asma Khalid cites one cleric in the belief that true Muslim orthodoxy is peaceful:

The sheikh continued, challenging Mr. bin Laden's violent interpretation of jihad, citing Koranic verses and prophetic narrations. He referred to jihad as any "good action" and recounted a recent conversation with a non-Muslim lawyer who asked if electing a respectable official would be considered jihad. The sheikh answered "yes" because voting for someone who supports the truth and upholds justice is a good action.

The sheikh, not bin Laden, is a depiction of true Islamic orthodoxy. The sheikh, not bin Laden, is the man trained in Islamic jurisprudence. The sheikh, not bin Laden, is the authentic religious scholar. But to call him a moderate Muslim would be a misnomer.

But as far as I know, this kind of thinking does not hold sway at influential Islamic Centers of learning in Saudi Arabia, nor even in Egypt, at Al-Azhar. Whose orthodoxy prevails?