When the muslims conquored Spain, was it an acceptable decision to fight the Crusades? Seeing as how muslims had established a Western capital through violent campaign?
Slaves can be owned up as long as they are seized in jihad and divided up in an "Islamic territory".
Islam is a political system as well as a religion. Sharia Law is the law of some muslim nations. Sharia law defines 3 classes of individual (muslims, Jews/Christians- people of 'the book', and "everybody else"- infidels) who have varying levels of protection under the law.
I will give him some pause for speaking out (albeit slowly). If he is so influential and had been speaking out earlier, we should have already heard this many times.
I will not knock Jews and Christians for Old Testament passages (and as I said, we have a new covenant with God).
"Islam is a political system as well as a religion. Sharia Law is the law of some muslim nations. Sharia law defines 3 classes of individual (muslims, Jews/Christians- people of 'the book', and "everybody else"- infidels) who have varying levels of protection under the law."
Many (perhaps most) Muslims do not ascribe to much of sharia, particularly non-arab Muslims. Remember, the vast majority of Muslims are not Arab. So it is not really correct to always associate Islam with Sharia.