vetuste - // I suggest there is not a single imam in the UK who could contest my summary, only the extent (point 2) to which a Muslim is obligated to obey man-made law when living in the "House of War", i.e. any country not living under the sharia. //
Thanks for the summary.
I am always intrigued by the Western perception that each and every Muslim must (and indeed does!) interpret every call to violence offered by the Koran as a blueprint by which they must live.
That seems to sit oddly, when no-one suggests that a nominally Christian society like ours, is equally obligated to live by the violence suggested in the Bible - "If they right eye offend thee, pluck it out …" and similar.
The simple fact common to both faiths is that both are governed by books from which believers take the bits that fit, and ignore the bits that do not fit with they way they want to live.
That allows the huge majority of Muslims to live peaceful lives as it does for Christians.
The problem arises when a psychotic minority twist the messages into something they can hide behind.
It allows Islamists to pretend that they are carrying out Allah's message, because it is more acceptable to them than to look in the mirror and see a 'warrior for Islam', instead of what is really there, the reflection of someone who likes hurting and killing innocent strangers because they are mentally deranged.