The prophet Mohammad personally set out one description of a community in his Constitution of Medina.
In Medina there were contentions among various religious groups over rights and privileges. This was a severe problem because each group: Jews, Muslims and indigenous religions wanted to dominate and set the agenda.
What Mohammad set out was a way to satisfy the claims of the disparate religious groups that lived there within a contractarian framework so that all might enjoy basic rights as citizens.
Many in the Middle East feel that the Constitution of Medina creates a blueprint of how to address human rights concerns: create a political or social contract that satisfies everyone’s negotiated needs and human rights claims.
Once this process has occurred, human rights emerge. They are negotiated rights and not natural rights.
Yep this guy is a moron.
They are rights negotiated out of the barrel of a rifle.
The author is an idiot, but he represents a large group of influential idiots running academies, think tanks and businesses.
The threat of bad ideas is obvious to us and would, if there were a free market of ideas, have been disposed of long ago and recognized for trash today. Instead our government school system which reaches deep into graduate school repackages this stupidity and insulates it promulgators from harm or retribution.
“because each group: Jews (...) wanted to dominate and set the agenda.”
And for good reasons: it was their own friggin’ city. Medina is an hebrew word meaning “city”. What that “constitution” did was to take it from them.
The discussion of the Constitution of Medina was to define it and its implications.
While the author may indeed be an idiot, he did not state he agreed with those implications.