Peace or Killing, Tafsír of Quran 2:208
Written by
Shaykh Atabek Shukurov
and
Sulaiman Ahmed
The recent controversy over the release of ‘The Study Quran’ by Sayed Hossein Nasr and his team has really shown Muslims at their worst – both in their academic incompetence and in their readiness to anathematise and declare Nasr and others heretics and unbelievers based on the flimsiest, or rather no, evidence – a Godsend to Islamophobes who wish to prove that Muslims as a whole are violent and intolerant. Though legal restraints in the West have prevented Muslim groups and scholars from complementing their open or veiled declarations that Nasr is an apostate or non-believer with the violence that they would prefer to be visited upon him, it is ever present in the background of their vile ejaculations.
Perhaps even more repugnantly, many of those who have spoken on the issue or previously endorsed the book, have used the controversy and…
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