Given that Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has considerately announced that he is prepared to “encourage any Muslim individual or group who is willing to work publicly for the reform of the Islamic doctrines, theological tenets and laws”, you would think he’d welcome Tariq Ramadan’s appeal for a moratorium on hudud punishments, wouldn’t you? Well, only if you were naive enough to take Spencer’s statement seriously.

Dhimmi Watch, 2 April 2005