Wednesday, July 4, 2012, Americans celebrated the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, affirming yet again our unique God-given heritage of freedom.
Tajul Muluk's prosecution epitomizes contemporary Islamdom's consistent, utter rejection of basic freedom of speech, even in a much-ballyhooed "tolerant" Muslim society. This liberty-crushing suppression of free speech -- in accord with Islam's totalitarian sharia -- is exercised with particular vehemence regarding any questions about Islam's origins, even when such queries comport with major aspects of the pious Muslim narrative, not to mention objective textual discoveries.
... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.The same day, prosecutors in Indonesia -- that bastion of contemporary Islamic tolerance and moderation -- insisted upon a four-year prison term for Shiite leader Tajul Muluk, under Article 156, Paragraph A of the Criminal Code, which penalizes "blasphemy." Tajul was accused, specifically, of informing his students that the contemporary Koran they (and all Muslims) now study was not the original "sacralized" text. Currently incarcerated, Tajul Mulk has received death threats from fellow inmates even before his trial, while in December 2011, over 300 members of Tajul's Shiite community were displaced when a mob of 500 people attacked and burned houses, a boarding school, and a place of worship.
Tajul Muluk's prosecution epitomizes contemporary Islamdom's consistent, utter rejection of basic freedom of speech, even in a much-ballyhooed "tolerant" Muslim society. This liberty-crushing suppression of free speech -- in accord with Islam's totalitarian sharia -- is exercised with particular vehemence regarding any questions about Islam's origins, even when such queries comport with major aspects of the pious Muslim narrative, not to mention objective textual discoveries.
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