March 27, 2005
One more sign that Bush might be right
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansar, former dean of the Faculty of Shari'a and Law at the University of Qatar, recently gave an interview to the Qatari daily Al-Raya—and his remarks would earn him a death sentence in many parts of the Arab world. In a wide-ranging conversation, translated into English by MEMRI.org, the onetime dean says that Muslims should be free to move among its various traditions or even from Sunni to Shia and back; that history should be fairly taught and that the unjust Arab rulers of the past should not be able to cloak their crimes in the guise of religion, that Arab states should protect the rights of all including non-Muslims and so on.
Posted by Richard Miniter at 06:36 PM