Evil isn’t statistical. Acts are, but the concept of evil expands brond facts, and isn’t representative of a statistical field. You can’t shoot evil or good particles in a laboratory at a gold sheet and count them, it’s measured by a different cognitive format all together, and only is referenced statistically by the apparent after effect.
Example… in the case of Moses, nobody in advance following the kosher concepts of the era would of known what percentage of people are abiding with gods will, and what is not. You can guess, and guess wildly. You can come to the conclusion a region is seemingly damned, but it isn’t till God gave the rest of positive knowledge… ho and find even a few men of good, and I will not wipe the board clean, did Noah and family know the statistical score. Until then, it was guessimation, and that applies a lot of assumption.
Was muhammad’s actions evil? Most certainly in Medina- people traded their sovereignty for a peacekeeper, and they were slaughtered for it. I’m left to presume the constitution of Medina was rather foul in not having Rousseau’s Checks and Balances, but many states lacked that and didn’t genocide out of general frustration of not knowing how to keep the peace and provide stable government. Just I strongly recommend no other Non-Muslim societies from ever inviting in Muslims to supervise their society under such conditions, it certainly worked out terribly for them in this case.
Now, in general directives of applying the Koran, jurisprudence is jurisprudence. The US and British concept of common law precedent is very similar, likely descends from Islam in fact, the Norman’s controlled Islamic Sicily prior to invading England, brought a lot of concepts with them, including universities.
We tried a few times in applying, for example, old testament kosher laws regarding siege warfare, and it didn’t work out too well. We think of both eras bring equally primitive, but the medieval military system was far more complex than anything the preroman world had to offer in terms of knowledge, tactics, and technology, and it didn’t quite fit. We forget the Just War Theory in the old testament was made up Ad Hoc in response to the battle, the threat, the need NOT to provoke needless violence or start conflicts needlessly. Pacifism wasn’t a uniquely Christ like idea, it had old testament precedents (and Christ wasn’t always the pacifist).
Back water Imams need to make it a imperative to learn as much as possible about the science of jurisprudence, beyond more than just a Islamic school, I’m talking the entirety, bring a expert in laws in general. They should be debating did a judge in Brazil or China in civilian or military courts make the right decision in regards to any sort of law, how they came about that decision, and parallels they make in their school of islam.
I’ve found no section of the Koran that says to Imams, “In general, it is best to act the barbaric fool, and when in doubt, act blindly, punishing though ignorance instead of comprehensive understanding, for this pleases the lord”.
Koran is full of cases where Muhammad acted, superceeding earlier verses of the koran in seeming syllogistic contradiction. Shari’a presumed it knew/knows why, but it isn’t written. Your acting on presumptions, when he outright showed reasoning and tolerance was just as acceptable… Islamic scholars really should consider this.
And yes, Islam has a bad Jihad problem. But Christians also had bad eras in Just War Theory where we did some equally nasty shit. Atheists have done far worst than any religion in modern times, with Hitker, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. Maybe we can just like… use our brains, and not act like a bunch of ignorant, blood lusting fools? Islam, as a cultural phenomena, does have a problem to deal with, bit at the same time, we shouldn’t scapegoat just them. Tamil Tigers were not Muslimsc but far more ferocious in suicide bombings. I’m not going to Dodge the issues by saying stupid stuff like “One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter”, or be like Foucault in excusing terrorism, but I do strongly recommend we look at Islam in a much wider perspective… they aren’t for the most part insane, most mean good, they are caught up in some pretty bizarre rhetoric. Not even a quarter of the actions are blamable on Islam per say, but on regiems with shitheaded outlooks. They are every bit as human as we are, slaves to stupid ideas and hard headed traditions. Educated men in any faith should think deeper.