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| From Egypt's leader, an ambitious call for reform in Islam | |
| 2015-01-09 | |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... 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 Moslem world a source of "destruction" and pitted it against the rest of the world. The speech was Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi's boldest effort yet to position himself as a modernizer of Islam. His professed goal is to purge the religion of murderous Moslem ideas of intolerance and violence that fuel groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State - and lie behind Tuesday's attack in Gay Paree on a French satirical newspaper that killed 12 people. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Would you sell him a life-insurance? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-09 04:20 |
| #1 the word 'reform' is unfortunate the Salafist school and even more so, the Wahabi movement in Islam consider themselves the 'reformers' because they want to bring Islam back to its scriptural correct 7th/8th century path. what Al Sisi said was that there needs to be a revolution in Islamic thought |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-01-09 00:43 |