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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Looking for “compassionate Izzlame” sounds an awful lot like a task best assigned to Don Quixote. Sheikh Staypuff can be his Sancho Panza.
Islam needs a Reformation, but sadly anyone brave enough to nail their 95 theses to the mosque door would probably end up dead
Compassionate Islam? If ever there was a contradiction ! But hood luck to him.
like bandaids over your gushing neck stump?
“compassionate islam”
oxymoron
cognitive dissonance
doesn’t exist in nature
look at the middle east and the last thing that would ever come into your mind to describe it is “compassionate”
“compassionate islam” is about as real as “compassionate government” or “compassionate serial killers”
Don’t use a dull blade when beheading an infidel.
Compassionate Islam. That means that they cut your head off quickly instead of slowly, or that they kill you and then cut off your head.
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