{"id":7682,"date":"2014-09-22T05:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T05:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/22\/the-religion-of-peace-or-the-religion-of-beheading\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T05:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T05:50:36","slug":"the-religion-of-peace-or-the-religion-of-beheading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/22\/the-religion-of-peace-or-the-religion-of-beheading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religion of Peace or the Religion of Beheading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Jacoby, Why Beheading?<\/a>  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is more to the Islamist passion for decapitation<\/a> than psychological warfare and a hunger for notoriety. There is also Muslim theology and history, and a mandate going back to the Koran. In a 2005 study published in Middle East Quarterly<\/a>, historian Timothy Furnish quotes the famous passage at Sura 47:4<\/a>: \u201cWhen you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.\u201d For centuries, Furnish observes, \u201cleading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally,\u201d and examples abound throughout Islamic history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jeff Jacoby, Why Beheading?  Excerpt: There is more to the Islamist passion for decapitation than psychological warfare and a hunger for notoriety. There is also Muslim theology and history, and a mandate going back to the Koran. In a 2005 study published in Middle East Quarterly, historian Timothy Furnish quotes the famous passage at Sura … Continue reading “The Religion of Peace or the Religion of Beheading?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}