Western "liberals" should take note. It is not safe to be a "liberal" Muslim.
RIYADH (Reuters) - A religious edict by a prominent Saudi cleric suggesting liberals are not real Muslims has enflamed debate over reforms in the conservative Islamic state, with self-professed liberals fearing they will be attacked.
Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries that rules by strict application of Islamic law, giving clerics a powerful position in society, but Islamists fear that liberal reformers are gaining ground under the rule of King Abdullah.
Responding to an online request for a religious edict, or fatwa, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan said last month: "Calling oneself a liberal Muslim is a contradiction in terms ... one should repent before God for such ideas in order to be a real Muslim."
The fatwa said that liberal in this context meant "freedom which is not subject to the bounds of sharia (Islamic law) and which rejects sharia laws, especially concerning women…"
"He who wants freedom with only the controls of man-made law has rebelled against the law of God," it said.
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-07-08T175406Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-283731-1.xml&archived=False
Hat tip to The Religion of Peace
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