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Mohammed Bin Salman Attempts to Reform Islam
Asia News ^ | 5/8/21 | Kamel Abderrahmani

Posted on 05/12/2021 7:44:07 PM PDT by marshmallow

In an interview with "Al-Arabiya", the Saudi Crown Prince suggests concentrating the constitution and laws on the Koran, eliminating many hadiths (sayings of the Prophet). He speaks of the need for a current “interpretation” of the Koran. A real change in ideological direction that goes beyond the Wahhabism propagated by Riyadh to date. No more stoning, scourging, killing apostates and homosexuals. Many Muslim intellectuals were persecuted and killed because they proposed the same vision as Mbs.

Paris (AsiaNews) - On April 27 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman (Mbs), gave a long television interview to the Saudi channel "Al-Arabiya"[i], dedicated to his economic and social program for a new country in the framework of the 2030 vision, first unveiled in 2015.

In the interview he spoke of moderation in the application of Islamic laws, challenging Wahhabism, an ideology developed by Mohammed ben Abdelwahhab, an 18th century Saudi preacher, who reigned for a long time in the country and elsewhere, after promoting it for many decades in the Muslim world.

It would seem that MBS has come out in favor of the reform of Islam, when he stated: “All Muslim jurists and scholars have been talking about the concept of moderation for over a thousand years. So, I do not think I am in a position to clarify this concept, as much as I can ... abide by the Saudi constitution, which is the Quran, the Sunnah, and our basic governance system and to implement it fully in a broad sense that is inclusive of everybody."

Until a few years ago, such a speech would have been unimaginable and [even that evening] it was hard to believe it, if broadcast live on the television channel.

MBS also declared that "the Constitution of Saudi Arabia is the Koran" and that his country.......

(Excerpt) Read more at asianews.it ...


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1 posted on 05/12/2021 7:44:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

And we’re pissed off because he killed a Washington Post Reporter?


2 posted on 05/12/2021 7:45:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: marshmallow

I hope he has good security. ISIS and other pig screwers will be angry.


3 posted on 05/12/2021 7:59:32 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: marshmallow

I wish him luck, but I don’t think Islam can be reformed.


4 posted on 05/12/2021 8:01:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“.....a Washington Post Reporter?”

I believe that the connection to the WaPo was way more tenuous than that of one of their [alleged] Reporters.


5 posted on 05/12/2021 8:02:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He was a terrorist disguised as a reporter.


6 posted on 05/12/2021 11:03:44 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Didn’t he enter the building on his two legs but left in pizza boxes..or something like that ?


7 posted on 05/12/2021 11:05:30 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: marshmallow

The American Thinker
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman rattles Muslim clergy, challenges sources of sharia
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/saudi_crown_prince_mohammed_bin_salman_rattles_muslim_clergy_challenges_sources_of_sharia.html

This is huge. Those of us who have had hopes that Saudi Arabia can transformed from a sponsor of hardline jihad into a modernizing force in the Islamic world have cause for hope.

Remarks made by the real ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), suggest that he carefully laying the grounds for a fundamental reinterpretation of orthodox Islam.
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8 posted on 06/24/2021 4:25:00 AM PDT by Valin
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To: Valin; AdmSmith

Pong


9 posted on 07/10/2021 4:15:16 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert
Some interesting questions are raised here:

Saudi Crown Prince rejects most Hadith, & Wahhabism!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO6sC8BEAU 30 min

10 posted on 07/12/2021 9:41:36 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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