# Daesh, Samuel Paty and Islamic law: A critique of the legal tradition

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2110703241449099308
- Source account: [@ulfposh](https://x.com/ulfposh)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:57
- Published: 2026-10-15
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/fr/daesh-samuel-paty-et-droit-musulman-une-critique-de-l-h%C3%A9ritage-juridique.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition) What ISIS does, what ISIS has done, friends, we must have the courage to say it. All of that, is in Islamic law.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=7) And anyone who doesn't, who, who doesn't own up to that, to me, is dishonest.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=10) And all you have to do is look at it. Ask me any questions you want about what ISIS does. I'll tell you which chapter it is written in.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=17) Everything. There isn't a single act ISIS commits that isn't in Islamic law.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=20) So the question arises, and that's where we can, indeed, be very easily trapped.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=25) This allows us to say, “Yes, but it is carried out only if there is a king, a, a sovereign, a sultan. ” It is under a sultan that it must be done. But that already means you endorse the principle.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=37) Yet the principle is not to be endorsed.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=39) A principle that consists of killing a, a Musl— a non-Muslim child.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=45) Imagine for one second, a non-Muslim child or a woman who is non-Muslim and belongs to a house of war, as they themselves define it.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=55) In the event of extreme famine, you have the right to kill and eat them.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=59) Oh, that, that's what Imam Ibn Taymiyya tells you in the Umda and the Majmu'a.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=65) At some point, we need to stop this circus.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=67) And stop saying this isn't Islam. Because if you don't say that, well, it gives others the opportunity to come and do whatever they want.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=75) Samuel Paty's murder, it's true that several reasons contribute to it.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=82) Psychiatric, certainly, sociological, certainly, educational, certainly. These are multifactorial problems.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=88) But if you go back to Islamic law, you'll find that there is near-unanimity that anyone who insults the Prophet must be killed.

[1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=97) So, let's not— let's not kid ourselves, actually.

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=99) Until we decide that this is a heritage from which we will draw what fits our realities and leave aside what does not fit them, we'll keep seeing such actions.

[1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=110) It's— Actually, I have trouble understanding why we do not understand.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/06fpuVTgbWWk/en/daesh-samuel-paty-and-islamic-law-a-critique-of-the-legal-tradition?t=113) That's my question, actually. That's ultimately what I wonder.