By Robert Spencer
The University of Southern California Muslim Students Association’s “Compendium of Muslim Texts” -- a helpful online collection that I’ve used for years to demonstrate that, the actual content of Islamic teachings on jihad warfare, Islamic supremacism, and related matters -- has been renamed the “Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement.”
Most of the texts are still there, along with a new link to the Talmud. Conspicuously absent is Syed Abul Ala Maududi’s introductions to every Qur’an chapter, which had been a feature of the old site. Maududi, of course, was a Pakistani jihad theorist whose writings remain enormously influential among Muslims today.
Why might Maududi have been deep-sixed by the suddenly ecumenical-minded Muslims of the USC Muslim Students Association? Perhaps it is because of small matters such as his commentary on Qur’an 9:29, in which he states that unbelievers have “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines. For if they are given such an opportunity, corruption and mischief will ensue. In such a situation the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life” (Towards Understanding the Qur’an, vol. III, p. 202). Read more ...
The University of Southern California Muslim Students Association’s “Compendium of Muslim Texts” -- a helpful online collection that I’ve used for years to demonstrate that, the actual content of Islamic teachings on jihad warfare, Islamic supremacism, and related matters -- has been renamed the “Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement.”
Most of the texts are still there, along with a new link to the Talmud. Conspicuously absent is Syed Abul Ala Maududi’s introductions to every Qur’an chapter, which had been a feature of the old site. Maududi, of course, was a Pakistani jihad theorist whose writings remain enormously influential among Muslims today.
Why might Maududi have been deep-sixed by the suddenly ecumenical-minded Muslims of the USC Muslim Students Association? Perhaps it is because of small matters such as his commentary on Qur’an 9:29, in which he states that unbelievers have “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines. For if they are given such an opportunity, corruption and mischief will ensue. In such a situation the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life” (Towards Understanding the Qur’an, vol. III, p. 202). Read more ...
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