Khizr Khan Has Written Extensively On Sharia Law
Khizr Khan Has Written Extensively On Sharia Law
3:35 PM 08/01/2016
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Khizr Khan, the Muslim father of a slain American soldier, is an attorney who has previously written in a law journal about Islamic law. He specifically wrote about the purity of the Quran and the Sunnah over all other texts and interpretations.
Khan rose to fame after speaking at the Democratic National Convention Thursday and pulling out a pocket U.S. Constitution imploring if Donald Trump had even read it.
Khan wrote “Juristic Classification Of Islamic Law” in the Houston Journal of International Law in 1983. In it he breaks down different levels of Islamic law. Khan writes that the Quran and the Sunnah which were both directly created by the Muslim prophet Muhammad were the only sources in Muhammad’s lifetime that “were recognized as binding.”
“The Shari’ah-was completed during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammed, in the Quran and Sunnah. This brings up an important fact which is generally overlooked, that the invariable and basic rules of Islamic Law are only those prescribed in the Shari’ah (Quran and Sunnah), which are few and limited,” Khan continues to write. “All other juridical works which have been written during more than thirteen centuries are very rich and indispensable, but they must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah and open to reconsideration by all Muslims.”
In the journal article, Khan goes on to explain the importance of Islamic laws and interpretations to Muslim followers. He writes that: “The present form of the Quran is one and the same in every part of the Muslim world, and it has been so all through the centuries. This, Muslims believe, is due to the fact that the compilation and arrangement of chapters was completed-under divine instructions-by the Prophet himself.”
It is due to this that Khan writes, “to Muslims, the Quran being the very word of God, it is the absolute authority from which springs the very conception of legality and every legal obligation.”
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Khizr Khan (R), accompanied by his wife Ghazala Khan (L), walks off stage after speaking about their son US Army
Captain Humayun Khan who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq 12 years ago, on the final night of the Democratic
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The Muslim attorney writes that, “it has to be admitted, however, that the Quran, being basically a book of religious guidance, is not an easy reference for legal studies. It is more particularly an appeal to faith and the human soul rather than a classification of legal prescriptions.” Khan added that, “the major portion of the Quran is, as with every Holy Book, a code of divine exhortation and moral principals.”
The attorney has law degrees from Punjab University in Pakistan and Harvard University.
Khan then goes on to write about the Sunnah. This is the “human, though prophetic, clarification of the Quran by Muhammed.” The rest of the journal is about interpretations of Islamic law by Islamic jurists distant from Muhammed himself. These are called Qiyas.
Khan includes quotes from Islamic scholars from Qiyas. One of them from Said Abu Hanifa, who says it is, “slanderous is their saying that we give our qiyas any priority over the Shariah. Do we need opinion when there is a sacred text?”
A short biography of Khan in the journal article says that he is the author of “In Defense of OPEC” and “Legal Index of the Quran.” It also lists that he is the co-founder of Journal of Contemporary Issues in Muslim Law. Both these texts and the journal were not able to be found in a search of academic databases.
Khizr Khan: U.S. wars “have created a chaos” in Muslim-majority countries
Tuesday, Aug 2, 2016 12:00 PM PST
Khizr Khan: U.S. wars “have created a chaos” in Muslim-majority countries
The media amplified Khizr Khan's patriotism—but not his criticism of US foreign policy and the "quagmire" it led to
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Khizr Khan, the Pakistani American father of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq, has become something of a media celebrity in the past week.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Khan and his wife Ghazala denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his racist, anti-Muslim policies.
Trump responded by maliciously attacking the Khans, and a political scandal has ensued.
Many media outlets have amplified Khizr Khan’s patriotic sentiments. Significantly less attention, however, has been paid to Khan’s criticism of U.S. wars and his lamentation that “We have created a chaos” and a “quagmire” in Muslim-majority countries.
Khizr and Ghazala Khan spoke on MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Monday, Aug. 1. Fifteen minutes into the program, after Khan harshly condemned Islamist extremists for “hijacking” his religion, host Chris Matthews briefly asked Khan about U.S. wars in Muslim-majority countries.
“What do you think, or feel, when you see us attack Iraq, or go into Afghanistan after Osama bin Laden? Or we go attack, we bombed Libya. We’re bombing Syria now, all Islamic countries,” he said. “What do you feel, as an Islamic man?”
“As a Muslim American I feel that these policies are not in the interest of the United States of America,” Khan replied, with a look of distress.
“And we see the result of it,” he continued. “We are more vulnerable now. We have created a chaos.”
“Well you know, you’re speaking to the choir,” Matthews laughed.
Khan added, “I wish this country would have listened to Chris Matthews when he was talking, when he was preaching. We could have saved ourselves from this quagmire.”
“I didn’t think Iraq made any sense, and I think you agree,” the host responded.
Matthews then segued back to Donald Trump, to whom they devoted much more time.
In total, they only discussed U.S. foreign policy for 50 seconds in the 15-minute “Hardball” interview.
This brief excerpt, in which Khizr Khan criticizes militaristic U.S. foreign policy, is not included in the isolated clips for the episode on MSNBC’s website. One has to watch the full episode to see it.
Khan’s criticisms came on the same day that the U.S. launched a new bombing campaign in Libya. In fact, while Khan was stirring up patriotic sentiment on air, MSNBC’s breaking news lower third below him reported: “U.S. launches a new campaign of airstrikes.”
This new war comes just five years after the previous NATO war plunged the oil-rich North African nation into chaos, empowering extremist groups and allowing ISIS to consolidate its largest regime outside of Iraq and Syria.
The Obama administration dropped 23,144 bombs on six Muslim-majority countries in 2015. Libya is now the seventh country with ongoing U.S. air strikes.
As he noted, Chris Matthews was indeed critical in the lead-up to the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He was also somewhat skeptical of the 2011 war in Libya and the Obama administration’s attempt in 2013 to launch a bombing campaign in Syria.
Yet Matthews’ record isn’t entirely consistent. In May 2003, when then-President George W. Bush declared “victory” in Iraq, Matthews commended “the president’s amazing display of leadership.”
“The president deserves everything he’s doing tonight in terms of his leadership,” Matthews exclaimed. “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.”
Moreover, in 2014, as the U.S. launched new wars against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Matthews declared, “When it comes down to how we fight this, everybody seems to be for air attacks, airstrikes. Everybody is for drone attacks.”
Likewise, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has also applauded Khan and used his story to attack Trump, is one of the most hawkish figures in U.S. politics.
Clinton voted and lobbied for the invasion of Iraq, helped lead the catastrophic 2011 war in Libya and pushed for a much more aggressive policy in Syria, contributing greatly to the “chaos” and “quagmire” Khan railed against.
Salon contacted the Clinton campaign with a request for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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