By Joe Newby
Since he spoke at the Democratic National Convention, Khizr M. Khan, the father of an American Muslim soldier killed in combat, has become something of a media darling. But what do we really know about this man? According to a report posted at Breitbart.com on Tuesday, Khan published papers that support the supremacy of Islamic, or Sharia law — including the Constitution he championed at the DNC.
“…(T)he invariable and basic rules of Islamic law are only those prescribed in the Shari’ah,” Khan wrote in an academic paper in 1983 while studying in Saudi Arabia. “All other juridical works… must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah and open to reconsideration by all Muslims.”
Breitbart added:
He explains that Sharia is derived
from the Quran and Sunnah, and that the Quran “is the absolute authority
from which springs the very conception of legality and every legal
obligation.”
Khan then notes that Quranic law includes “constitutional law.”
“Family law is laid down in 70
injunctions; civil law in another 70; penal law in 30; jurisdiction and
procedure in 13; constitutional law in 10; international relations in
25; and economic and financial order in 10,” he said.
Khan defers to an early Islamic
jurist who ruled: “For every issue concerning a Muslim, either there is a
binding text (of the Shariah) that rules it, or there is a guidance
that may indicate the way to truth. If there is a text, then the Muslim
has to follow it.”
A devout Muslim, Khan also cites two
radical Muslim Brotherhood figures as scholarly sources — Said Ramadan
and Muhammad Hamidullah.
“It’s not immediately clear if Khan has ever repudiated his earlier
support for the anti-Constitutional principles of Sharia law,” Paul
Sperry said. Yet, Khan attacked Trump, asking if he had actually read
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