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| A new class of French imams | |
| 2003-05-08 | |
| EFL, well worth reading in full. Zuhair Mahmoud was an Iraqi nuclear scientist before his religious conversion. Now he runs a theological school in Burgundy, training imams for a 'lost generation' of young Muslims in France. In this unlikely bucolic setting, the European Institute for Human Sciences has operated since 1990. Despite its name, it is a theological college whose aim is to train up imams and religious scholars capable of representing a modern Islamic society emerging across the continent. Snipped...Beautiful rolling hills, enlightened scholarship, etc. etc. However not all French Muslims are happy with the growing influence of the UOIF and its training institute in the Burgundy hills. For the Islam it promotes is unmistakeably traditionalist, and the UOIF is itself linked to the the originally Egyptian movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
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| Posted by:seafarious |
| #4 That article was posted a couple of weeks ago, on www.fuckfrance.com That website has disappeared, as have 20 other anti-jihadi sites in France. Maudits! |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-05-08 06:05:51 |
| #3 not to be a thread hog...but I just realized (I'm a little slow sometimes) that this is just another preemptive action. Let see...hmmm... nuclear scientists being educated just "a few kilometres (miles) from the town of Château-Chinon, political fiefdom of the late Socialist president François Mitterrand". Man...the stuff that is spilling out just keeps getting better and better. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-05-08 04:59:22 |
| #2 heh, heh...kind of like an mutant scene out of Toy Story this. Cute, inanimate theologians by day.... evil nuclear scientists, fiendishly plotting world destruction, by night. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-05-08 04:49:09 |
| #1 "and the tiny hamlets of honeyed stone" Gosh! It just sounds.... too good to be true! The enlightened nuclear scientist who saves the world through peace, love and tolerance. Hmmm....oh that it would be true! I want to believe and it certainly is a noble goal. But...sniff, sniff (actually you don't need to sniff, with that pesky relationship to the Muslim brotherhood, the smell is overwhelming) this is pure unadulterated propaganda. Someone take note, this is an interesting new and improved tactic. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-05-08 04:28:09 |