tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post3066142435222332592..comments2023-12-28T14:51:34.281-05:00Comments on Notes on Arab Orthodoxy: Fr. Georges Massouh on Christians' Right to Reject Islamic LawUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post-42519353414421235722013-01-12T16:38:38.456-05:002013-01-12T16:38:38.456-05:00So much for Fr. Georges Massouh Muslim-Christian d...So much for Fr. Georges Massouh Muslim-Christian dialogs.NOCTOChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17578909479350656439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post-27549049891235154002013-01-11T22:23:07.324-05:002013-01-11T22:23:07.324-05:00one of the Muslims asked me how I, as a non-Muslim...<i>one of the Muslims asked me how I, as a non-Muslim, can have the right to object to "the position of non-Muslims in Islamic law" when it is, in his opinion, a purely Islamic matter.</i><br /><br />As a Muslim, Fr. Massouh's interlocutor is entirely correct.<br /><br /><i>I told him that this issue concerns me too, since it talks about me, so how do you have the right to prevent me from rejecting the legal restrictions that you draw up for me?</i><br /><br />How does the Muslim not? The God of the Muslims said it, the Prophet wrote it, and that's that. Here in the West we at least have the advantage of a Lockean dialectic (for now). Fr. Massouh is attempting to employ such reasoning in a completely alien setting.<br /><br />For that matter, rights even in the West were really just a matter of the people acquiring sufficient power to demand them from kings who would otherwise never have given a thought to the matter.<br /><br />I don't think appeals to a past golden age of supposed Muslim moderation or a foreign dialectic are going to work.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.com