Monday, August 15, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:26)
Decades of Fatwa and Last Week’s Attack on Author Salman Rushdie: Theology, Honor Religion, and the HeadlinesPart II (09:26 - 16:25)
‘Intellectual Improvement Should Lead to Moral Improvement’: The Significance of the The Chautauqua Institution and Its MovementPart III (16:25 - 22:45)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 15, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Mooler and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.1 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Lots of headlines over the last several days, but on Friday, one of the biggest headlines |
| 0:18.2 | had to do with an author who was stabbed in New York State. |
| 0:21.8 | The author was Salman Rushdie. He was stabbed at the historic Chautauqua Institution where he was addressing a group. |
| 0:28.0 | He is one of the best known writers of fiction and literature in the world today, but is perhaps best known to many people |
| 0:34.4 | around the world because of a fatwa a Muslim religious judgment against him that |
| 0:40.2 | actually as handed down by Ayatollah Komeni of Iran called for his death |
| 0:45.6 | because of the publication of his 1988 novel known as the satanic verses. |
| 0:50.9 | That book was considered an insult to the prophet Muhammad and that led to the fatwa calling for his death and that's a convoluted story. |
| 0:59.0 | But it's a very sad story and it's a tragic story in the sense that not only have there been efforts in the past to carry out that death sentence, |
| 1:07.0 | but a man who had gone to the Chautauqua Institution supposedly registering as a guest like any other on Friday. institution supposedly stabbed Salman Rushdie something like 10 times. |
| 1:23.8 | By Friday night it was clear that the attack could well have killed Salman Rushdie, but by |
| 1:28.8 | Sunday it was apparent that though grievously wounded he might actually well recover. |
| 1:35.0 | A man by the name of Hottie Matar is now in custody. |
| 1:37.8 | He was arrested by police, but of course he was arrested after a vast crowd had seen him undertake the crime. |
| 1:45.0 | So even as he is the accused, in this case, the evidence is incredibly clear just based even upon the testimony of the people who were in the room and video evidence. |
| 1:56.0 | Hattie Matar will receive a fair trial in the United States because of our commitment to the rule of law. |
| 2:02.0 | If he wants a jury trial, he may have a trial by a |
| 2:05.3 | jury of his peers in order to make the case. But that is exactly the kind of |
| 2:09.8 | trial that was denied to Solomon Rushdie, even as the Muslim authorities in Iran, but not just in |
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