Comments on: Luttwak Has His Facts Wrong on Muslim Law http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/06/luttwak-has-his-facts-wrong-on-muslim-law Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Kathy http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/06/luttwak-has-his-facts-wrong-on-muslim-law/comment-page-1#comment-37717 Kathy Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:11:06 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=4279#comment-37717 It's not Shipley's piece. It's Edward Luttwak's piece. Shipley is the Times editor who published it without response. It’s not Shipley’s piece. It’s Edward Luttwak’s piece. Shipley is the Times editor who published it without response.

]]> By: tas http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/06/luttwak-has-his-facts-wrong-on-muslim-law/comment-page-1#comment-37667 tas Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:57:32 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=4279#comment-37667 First thing I thought of when I saw Shipley's piece was which school of Islamic law was he talking about? That should be the first question which starts a discussion about Islamic law -- but I don't remember Shipley ever specifying a school. And second, tacking onto this first fact, Shipley's op/ed piece makes the assumption that Muslims are all one big monolith of people believing exactly the same things. And when a writer starts out with such an inherent blanket statement/assumption, then that writer really needs to start questioning themselves. Or, at the very least, an editor for the op/ed page that is publishing his piece needs to ask these questions. Who exactly at NYT is reading these columns before they goto print... Anybody? First thing I thought of when I saw Shipley’s piece was which school of Islamic law was he talking about? That should be the first question which starts a discussion about Islamic law — but I don’t remember Shipley ever specifying a school. And second, tacking onto this first fact, Shipley’s op/ed piece makes the assumption that Muslims are all one big monolith of people believing exactly the same things. And when a writer starts out with such an inherent blanket statement/assumption, then that writer really needs to start questioning themselves.

Or, at the very least, an editor for the op/ed page that is publishing his piece needs to ask these questions.

Who exactly at NYT is reading these columns before they goto print… Anybody?

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