Community Trust Quotes
See {642506} for the attack on the Mayor, the illogic of which, Adams was demonstrating. As a decorated police officer, himself, Adams, was a particularly credible critic of the police union leader’s lack of logic. This was a very important quotation at the time as throughout the country almost all advocates of any kind of police reform were accused of encouraging attacks against police.
This sura has been in great controversy throughout the Muslim Empires. In part it separates many of the Arab cultures from the Ottomans. The latter had an organized meritocracy whereby Jews, Christians and other “heathens” of exceptional talent were sought out for advisory and leadership positions. In part this was justified as requiring that the Caliph and the Sultans had the power of life and death over their key appointees, hence they had to be slaves and other suras prohibited Muslims holding other Muslims in slavery. Even in modern times some Muslim countries have had key non-Islamic appointees and others would not. In historical practice, the Ottoman Empire utilized far more Christians and Jews that those societies involved Muslims until relatively recent historical times.
This was his response when asked if he would inform the police of another suicide bombing mission by Islamic terrorists.
