Kalam
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- Mar 5, 2009
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Earlier you implied that this was a teaching of Islam. All I ask is that you point to the scriptural source of this teaching if that is still your contention.Your acceptance is not required. Muslims do indeed kill other Muslims. The victims are indeed regarded as shahid. Muslim extremists do indeed justify the death of innocent Muslims in this way.Asad tells us that it isnt uncommon for all civilians who die in a political conflict to be esteemed as shuhada (plural of shahid). To connect shahada in some essential way to the ritual of sacrificeto see it as a form of sacrifice, as Devji doesis to neglect this broader category of deceased people. Thus, for instance, the violent death of all Palestinians in confrontation with Israelis is regarded as a sign that they have died as witnesses (shuhada) to their faithalthough there is no ritualized form to most of these deaths.[49] Consequently, Asad suggests, the shahids death constitutes a triumph rather than a sacrifice.
First of all, your passage simply discusses "civilians who die in a political conflict," not "civilians who are killed by Muslims in a political conflict." Secondly, I'm afraid that the word of Talal Asad is not tantamount to Islamic scripture. If you're going to put forth claims about the teachings of the Islamic religion itself, you'll have to back them up with actual scripture.
You don't like it? Make 'em stop.