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Egypt's leader el-Sissi calls for revolution in interpretation of Islam in face of militancy
AP ^ | January 8, 2014

Posted on 01/08/2015 7:44:33 AM PST by opentalk

CAIRO –  Egypt's president opened the new year with a dramatic call for a "revolution" in Islam to reform interpretations of the faith entrenched for hundreds of years, which he said have made the Muslim world a source of "destruction" and pitted it against the rest of the world.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdelfattahalsisi; alsisi; cairo; egypt; islam; islamreform; muslimbrotherhood; reformislam; terrorism

1 posted on 01/08/2015 7:44:33 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

How long until he gets the Sadat Treatment?


2 posted on 01/08/2015 7:45:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: opentalk
More from speech:

...By such thinking, the Islamic world is "making enemies of the whole world. So 1.6 billion people (in the Muslim world) will kill the entire world of 7 billion? That's impossible ... We need a religious revolution."

3 posted on 01/08/2015 7:46:26 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

By which he means Reformation.

Probably not a bad idea.


4 posted on 01/08/2015 7:50:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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A Revolutionary Speech Ignored by the MSM

...What a refreshingly honest statement to come from not only a political leader but a Muslimpolitical leader who has much to lose, not least his life.  Contrast his very true words with the habitual reassurances of the Western establishment that Islamic world violence is a product of anything and everything but Islam.

5 posted on 01/08/2015 7:53:39 AM PST by opentalk
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To: BenLurkin
By which he means Reformation.

Impossible.

How do you 'reform' this?
Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Or this?
Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Or this?
Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Any reformation would require a rewrite of the Koran. And they believe the Koran is the most perfect book.

We are at war. Ann Coulter was right - kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

6 posted on 01/08/2015 8:02:45 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: opentalk

I’m sure Hillary, Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood are deeply saddened by these remarks. This is not what Obama and Hillary had worked so hard for in Egypt. Poooor Hillary.


7 posted on 01/08/2015 8:22:22 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: opentalk

Rather amazing - but Egypt is older than Islam and may not be ready to be destroyed by the cult.


8 posted on 01/08/2015 8:48:57 AM PST by februus
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To: BenLurkin

My view......

The reformation is already well along.

The terror is retaliation by those opposed to the reformation present in very large segments of the Islamic world. The ouster of the Brotherhood in Egypt was in effect a return to the reformed status quo


9 posted on 01/08/2015 8:53:56 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: opentalk

Good to see this guy (not appointed by the Anointed One) pushing for religious reform. Unfortunately, Islam was founded on the premise of “DOMINATION”. Until people are willing and able to remove that aspect from the “interpretation” of the Quran, it will be “status quo”. Islam has been killing, murdering and subjecting everyone in it’s path from 615 AD all do to a psychopath they call a “prophet”.


10 posted on 01/08/2015 8:54:21 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: FatherofFive

Some of the old testament dictates changed with the new testament’s “Love thy neighbor,” and “Let him without sin cast the first stone.”

There is not one mention of “love” of the common man or woman in the Koran. Any different interpretation of the Koran or its “Theology,” loosely using the term, would be blasphemy and would cause immediate savage slaughter.

Al Sisi is undoubtedly on a hit list.


11 posted on 01/08/2015 9:07:48 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Sasparilla

Al Sisi is royally ticked at Obama and his support of the Jihadists.

Look for the administration to cut Egypt out of its will.


12 posted on 01/08/2015 9:14:48 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I'm from the Soylent Corporation and I am here to help.)
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To: FatherofFive

.....Yet the one holy book which will forever be the number best seller is............the Bible.


13 posted on 01/08/2015 9:21:51 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: ThomasMore

Because remember the “real god” of Islam is SATAN.

And it is SATAN who calls the shots in that cult.


14 posted on 01/08/2015 9:23:38 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: opentalk

Oops, his life insurance will soon be issuing a check to his heirs.


15 posted on 01/08/2015 9:48:51 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Egypt’s Sisi Becomes First President to Attend Christmas Mass

...In a short speech given during the mass, President Sisi said he was there to wish them a Merry Christmas.

President Sisi said that the world is watching at Egypt during these difficult times and urged Egyptians to remain united as ‘one hand.’

16 posted on 01/08/2015 9:59:53 AM PST by opentalk
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To: dfwgator

Dang it! Too late for the 2015 Celebrity Dead Pool deadline...


17 posted on 01/09/2015 5:46:39 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: opentalk

Mark Levin speaks about it:

http://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/levin-egyptian-president-made-more-sense-one-speech-obama-has-any-speech


18 posted on 01/09/2015 9:54:38 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Despite MB, Egypt has had some good things there, I’ve met people, cosmopolitan and a lot of poverty there but a lot of them get along with the Israelis, Christians, etc. The radicals are destroying whatever they can.


19 posted on 01/09/2015 9:55:47 PM PST by BeadCounter
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