The Professor's Islamist Call to Battle [on Sherman Jackson]

Campus Watch ^ | 3/22/10 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[SmithL]

Sherman Jackson, also known as Abdal Hakim Jackson, is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.

Jackson specializes in Islamic law and has written and spoken extensively on the subject. Soon after the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, Jackson took the line popular among apologists, stating at a September 2001 University of Michigan Teach-in titled, "Terrorism: A Perversion of Islam," that "the killing of innocent peoples is forbidden by the law of Islam and it has been from the beginning of Islam."

But it turns out that not only is Jackson an apologist, he an outspoken proponent of the Islamist subversion of Western civilization.

Jackson made this abundantly clear at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit – 8th Convention in Toronto, Canada in December 2009, as a participant in the panel, "The New We: Muslims in Future of Western Society." Jonathan Usher, who attended and wrote about the conference for Campus Watch, described Jackson's speech as nothing less than "a call to battle." As he put it, "It had little to do with peaceful co-existence with the West, but was an exhortation for Islam to dominate the West." According to Usher, Jackson

…believes that the Muslim and Western worlds are in conflict and competition, and that only one can end up dominant. Put simply, he wants to replace Western culture with Muslim culture.

…Jackson expressed a desire to be included in American society—but not if any sort of cultural sacrifice were required. He said that adapting to Western culture would lead to being a Muslim in name only and advocated defining America by Muslim standards and imposing cultural and intellectual supremacy. He urged Muslims not to follow Western cultural authority, but rather...

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[SirJohnBarleycorn]

"the killing of innocent peoples is forbidden by the law of Islam and it has been from the beginning of Islam"

This is a dishonest sidestepping of the matter one often sees from muslim scholars.

Bin Laden and the authorities he relies on claim that the American people are not "innocent" and therefore should be killed, and indeed that Islamic law justifies the killing of at least several million Americans.

He claims that in a democracy, the people are responsible for the policies of the leaders. Among other points, he notes that the American people voted for the political leaders who stationed American (infidel) troops in Saudi Arabia (the so-called land of the two holy mosques) in the prelude to the liberation of Kuwait. Therefore the American people are not "innocent" in Islamic theory.

[marron]

So, the fact that they are attacking innocents means that while we keep saying that we aren’t at war with Islam, their very own interpretation of their scripture tells us that in their learned opinion Islam is at war with us.