"Islamic teachings do not reject any political system of the world, but Islam leaves it to the choice of the people. What Islam emphasizes is not the form of government but how the government should discharge itself."
Source/Credit: Windsor Star
By Shakil Mirza | February 6, 2015
With the recent light shed upon the controversial Imam in Montreal, Hamza Chaoui, I ask the public to take this fundamentalist with a grain of salt.
His belief that democracy and Islam are “parallel lines that never intersect and that the vote is a sin” is his opinion.
But he should look at history and see that the early Muslims after the death of Prophet Muhammad elected four consecutive caliphs by a public vote.
The former head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community said, “Islamic teachings do not reject any political system of the world, but Islam leaves it to the choice of the people. What Islam emphasizes is not the form of government but how the government should discharge itself.”
Canada’s values are more Islamic than any so-called “Muslim” state today, and if Chaoui has a problem with that, he is free to leave.
SHAKIL MIRZA, Mississauga, Ont.
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