re yet more rushdie re islamic law in article apr bnr ca rashid writes in article bu edu jaeger buphy bu edu gregg jaeger wrote i think many reading this group would also benefit by knowing how deviant the view as i ve articulated it above which may not be the true view of khomeini is from the basic principles of islam so that the non muslim readers of this group will see how far from the simple basics of islam such views are on the face of them and if they are not in contradiction with the basics of islam how subtle such issues are and how it seems sects exist in islam while they are explicitly proscribed by the qur an discussing it here is fine by me shall we start a new thread called say infallibility in islam and move the discussion there i think this should be illuminating to all let me make a first suggestion when arabic words especially technical ones become of use let us define them for those especially atheists to whom they may not be terribly familiar please also note that though i did initially refer to khomeini as a heretic for what i understood to be a claim rejected by you since of personal infallibility i withdraw this as a basis for such a statement i conditionally retain this reference in regard to khomeini s advocacy of the thesis of the infallibility of the so called twelve imams which is in clear conflict with the qur an in that it places the twelve imams in a category of behavior and example higher than that of the muhammad in that the qur an shows that the prophet was clearly fallible as well as it appears given your abstruse theological statment regarding the natures of the twelve imams placing them in a different metaphysical category than the remainder of humanity with the possible exception of muhammad something which verges on the sin of association as salam a laikum alaikum wassalam gregg
