“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.” IfsProblemChristianOrderCircumstancesProtectAbuseBlameResponseIslamCharacteristicsIslamicSpokesApologyLockedPalestinianAbusersProtect Yourself Author:Mark Durie
“There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.” WorldShouldBookWarProblemMessagesWestIslamBelieverIslamicDeclarationDisturbingTriumphantNon BelieverDeclaration Of War Author:Mark Durie
“There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.” WayYearsKindDifferentSchoolLawValuesPrinciplesUnderstoodCodeDifferent WaysIslamicMultipleCompetingConstructsCivicsContinuumShariaFamily Law Author:Mark Durie
“Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.” WayNeedsUseAbleUnderstandingReligiousSourceAuthorityCrisisWestWesternIslamicIndigenousScholarship Author:Mark Durie
