LIBERATING ISLAM: How to Reconcile Islamic Criminal Law with Human Rights

by Mark A. Gabriel

LIBERATING ISLAM presents a revolutionary approach to reconcile Islamic Criminal Law with Human Rights.

Islamic criminal law causes much suffering to both Muslims and non-Muslims and has led to conflict between the Islamic world and the rest of the world community. Harsh corporal punishments, such as stoning to death for adultery, and beheading for leaving Islam, violate human rights severely. The problem is that the current predominant Islamic doctrines are shaped by some archaic radical (false) interpretations, some of which, in fact, even contradict the Qur'an itself.

This book shows how Islamic criminal law can be reconciled with international human rights. It explains:

• Why it is important to distinguish between Shariah and Islamic law
• Why Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) plays a key role in the conflict
• Why reformation and renewal can be considered Islamic concepts and
• Why the Quran and the Sunnah always need to be interpreted in the context of the relevant time and environment and considering the need of the people

The book provides the key to solve the conflict of Islamic world with human rights.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2019

About the author

Dr. Mark Gabriel was born and raised in Egypt in an Islamic family. By the age of 12, Dr. Gabriel had the entire Quran memorized. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Cairo and then became a professor of Islamic history at that university. He also served as the Imam (spiritual leader) of a mosque in Giza, where the pyramids are located.

In short, Dr. Gabriel was a highly prestigious figure in the Islamic world when one day he dared to question the authenticity of the Quran. That evening he was kidnapped by the Egyptian secret police and thrown in prison where he was tortured unmercifully for days due to questioning his religion. Miraculously, just as he was about to be executed, he was delivered from the prison by a relative with political connections.

During the next year while unemployed and living with his parents, Dr. Gabriel met a Christian pharmacist who gave him a Bible. That Bible led him to Jesus, and when he read the Sermon on the Mount, he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. When his father discovered that Mark had become a Christian, he tried to kill him. Running for his life, Dr. Gabriel fled to South Africa where assassins were sent to kill him. Finally he fled to the United States where he was granted religious asylum.

Today Dr. Mark Gabriel is a Christian evangelist. He is also spreading the truth about Islam. He is the author of several books, including a best-seller entitled Islam and Terrorism. He has been asked by powerful governments as an adviser. He also travels the world to speak in churches, conferences and teaching in bible schools on many different topics such as, the Christian perspective on Islam, how to reach Muslems for Christ, Middle East affairs, world religions, end of time according to Islam and Christianity and the role of women in Islam and Christianity.

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