Andrew Sullivan points to what he characterizes as “The first incident of anti-gay violence justified by Islamic law.” Jim Henley observes that the Islamist perpetrators appear to have been drunk at the time, which sort of calls into question the depth of their commitment to Islam.
I think you see rather a lot of this sort of thing where ills that anti-Muslim types would blame on Islam, or “new atheists” would blame on religion in general, don’t actually seem to be motivated by religion in anything other than the most superficial possible sense. We all understand, after all, that Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland aren’t really fighting about transubstantiation or other theological questions.
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