Posted on 07/23/2020 6:55:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 04:42 pm MT (CNA).- The leader of the largest independent Muslim organization in the world says that a resurgence of fundamentalist Islam threatens not only non-Muslim minorities, but feeds a cycle of retaliatory violence against Muslims.
Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf warned of a “political weaponization of fundamentalist Islam,” in an essay published in The Public Discourse on July 11. He said that religious minorities around the world “from sub-Saharan Africa to South and Southeast Asia” are discriminated against and attacked for their beliefs.
At issue, he said, is “a supremacist, ultraconservative interpretation of Islam” pushed even by U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
This resurgence of theocracies and sectarian violence around the world, he said, most notably manifested by the rise of the terror group ISIS in 2014, is actually the historical norm.
ISIS’ efforts to establish a caliphate based on an ultraconservative seventh-century interpretation of Islam “is not a historical aberration in the Middle East,” he wrote. “Rather, it is the historical norm,” as the Middle East up until the end of the Ottoman Empire “has been dominated by caliphs and/or those who ruled in their name, and governed according to the provisions of classical Islamic law.”
At the heart of the matter, he wrote, is the question of whether Muslims will choose to “remain silent and ignore the suffering of others,” or rather “pursue the truth and obey the dictates of conscience, whatever the consequences may be?”
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No, simply renounce it. Islam is evil.
“Compassionate islam” is an oxymoron.
Compassionate Islam are those who allow other people to do the killing... this is synonymous with moderate Islam
Kinda difficult not to have evil beliefs if one reads and believes the word of Muhammad.
Yahya needs to make sure his life insurance payments are timely made.
There’s no such thing as compassionate islam. This guy is going to get himself honor killed.
Mad Mo’ was a BAD role model.
All that follows needs to be rejected and stamped out.
FU!! Is that moderate enough?
This guy obviously does not know what izzy is.
Allen West savaged Islam on YouTube on multiple occasions. You know them by their doctrine.
Lift the segregation of Mecca and the death penalty sentence against any lowly subhuman kufir who’d dare enter...
I learned all I need to know about ‘Compassionate Islam’ on 9/11.
Thanks for playing!
*SPIT*
Compassionate,,,,,how?,,,,,,There are 68 passages in the quoran directing the follower to lie, cheat, steal and kill the infidel.
Islam is evil.
It needs to be eradicated like Nazism was.
It’s the only way Islam can be made peaceful.
Brave man. Islam’s problem is it never had a Reformation. It badly needs one.
I like your idea far better.
That is like adding comfy upholstery to the electric chair...
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