I don't agree with polish people; I'm just saying it's hypocritical of us to scream for them to let us in when we won't even let them build a church in Somalia for masiixi workers and exacts in ports and hotels. Most Kenyans and Ethiopians working in Somalia act as if they're Muslim. Including masiixi Somalis who have been masiixi before the civil war but when Salafism came, they miserably converted. We know how intolerant we are to not only other faiths but different tribes living in our towns. We can't throw stones when we don't even have a house let alone a glass one.
These conservatives are hypocrites of the highest order because for all the immoral things they do, the conservatives have found religious justifications. Prophet Muhammad had reportedly said, “War is deceit,” and since they were at a political war—with secularists, rival groups, “imperialists,” or “Zionists”—they could use all kinds of tricks, lies, and libels. A verse in the Qur’an said, “Relatives have prior claim over one another,” so packing the bureaucracy with your own relatives was just fine.
Or while the Sharia had condemned riba, or interest, it had no clear rules about public tendering, which the religious conservatives in power twisted repeatedly, for the immediate benefits of their cronies in various parts of the Islamic World.In other words, the problem was not that the religious conservatives are not pious enough. The problem was that theirs was a piety that did not make them moral people.
The late Egyptian scholar Nasr Abu Zayd also observed a “religiosity devoid of ethics” in his nation, where
“mosques are full, but corruption is rampant.” The Iraqi statesman Ali A. Allawi also has experienced an Islam that is “increasingly devoid of any deeply ethical content.” Qatar-based academic Omar Edward Moad also witnessed “outward religiosity without moral conscience.”
Islamic jurisprudence had become a pile of rules, among which morality had “evaporated. Of course this is related to the connection between religion and reason, with the issue of husn and qubh [good and bad].
The “immoral piety” we see in the contemporary Muslim world is rooted in Ashʿarism and its equation of ethical value with divine commandment.
This worldview equates morality with religious law. So, by definition, whatever the law bans becomes immoral, as whatever the law permits becomes moral. The question whether the law’s verdicts are moral or not is hardly asked—simply because
there is no independent moral criteria left to judge the law