Question Hour - Dr. Zakir Naik
[Excerpts]
Naik advocates the following, in response to the Muhammad cartoons:
1. Replies via the Media
2. Peaceful Protests and Demonstrations
3. Filing a Legal Suit
4. Economic Embargo
5. Political Pressure
6. Moderate Force
His last point about "moderate force" meanders toward the following affirmation of sharia law:
(Citing the Koran's verse 5:33, Naik writes): “In Islam, a
person who has committed blasphemy can either be killed or crucified, or his
opposite hands and feet can be cut off, or he can be exiled from that land. On
the other hand, in other religions there is no other option except capital
punishment. Islam at least has four options of punishment for an act of
blasphemy.”
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