Richard Engel Quotes
Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.
Engel, Richard. And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
The road name is not only descriptive of the fact that Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca for religious purposes. But by Saudi law, no one but a Muslim may use this road. Everyone in Saudi Arabia must have an identity card and that card is color coded by religion. For American’s the notion that there might be a public road on which only members of one religion may travel is as foreign a concept as there is.
The large communal worship of Muslim men is dramatic throughout the Islamic world for the non-participation of women. However, as this quotation demonstrates, it was not always thus. There is precedent for large communal Islamic worship of women.
Theological & Legal Expert. The Sunnah, like the Koran, has statements of the Prophet, Mohammad. A fatwa is a religious legal ruling. This particular Fatwa shows the great difference between the Islamic State and a Republic or Democracy. In the latter forms, any religious practices must be consistent with the Constitution. Even though blasphemy might be prohibited by a religion, the United States Constitution for example protects anyone’s right to be blasphemous. In the Islamic system any constitution or law is subservient to and must be consistent with, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. In that sense, unless the Muslim populated nation is secular like Turkey, then the governments are partial or total theocracies.
The Governor had introduced Sharia, Islamic Law, into his state. When a woman was sentenced to death by stoning, the Federal Government nullified the sentence on the ground that stoning was not morally right nor was a death penalty for her actions. The woman was not executed
This is another quotation of Mohamed which seems positive towards women lays on them and the requirement of obedience to the husband. The obedience part is enthusiastically supported an expected by most Muslim men—even today.
“High conflict” is the euphemism that her center uses to describe Islamic terrorists as well as those who support their activities and positions.
Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".
