House of Lords Debates Tenets of Islam

Dec 15, 2017 by

from Christian Concern:

Lord Pearson of Rannoch initiated a debate in the House of Lords yesterday asking the Government to encourage Muslim leaders to re-examine key Muslim tenets of abrogation, Taqiyya and Al Hijra and to publish their conclusions. Tim Dieppe comments on his speech and the various tenets that Lord Pearson highlighted in it. He concludes that Lord Pearson was right to highlight these concerning tenets and to initiate public debate about them.


Lord Pearson of Rannoch initiated a debate in the House of Lords yesterday asking the Government “whether, as part of their strategy against Islamist terrorism, they will encourage UK Muslim leaders to re-examine the Muslim tenets of abrogation, Taqiyya and Al Hijra and to publish their conclusions.”

Lord Pearson’s speech is well worth reading in full. He makes the point that criticism of key tenets of Christianity is entirely permitted in society, whereas it is not for Islam. He finds encouragement from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech last year in which he said that:

“in order to defeat terrorism, we need to understand the mindset of those who perpetrate it; that if we treat religiously motivated violence solely as a security or political issue, it may prove impossible to overcome it; that it is wrong to say that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam; and that until religious leaders stand up and take responsibility for the actions of those who do things in the name of their religions, we will see no resolution.”

I commented on the Archbishop’s speech at the time.

Lord Pearson explains that, contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace, “it means submission to the will of Allah, the Muslim God.” He also explains that sharia law is fundamental to Islam, and constitutes a complete way of life which “does not sit easily with our western liberal democracies and our separation of powers between legislature, executive, judiciary and church.”

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