Friday, December 10, 2004

Muslim Scholars Increasingly Debate Unholy War

Neil MacFarquhar in the New York Times reports:

"The long-simmering internal debate over political violence in Islamic cultures is swelling, with seminars ... and a raft of newspaper columns breaking previous taboos by suggesting that the problem lies in the way Islam is being interpreted ....

On one side of the discussion sit mostly secular intellectuals horrified by the gore joined by those ordinary Muslims dismayed by the ever more bloody image of Islam around the world. They are determined to find a way to wrestle the faith back from extremists. Basically the liberals seek to dilute what they criticize as the clerical monopoly on disseminating interpretations of the sacred texts. "

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 10:15 AM

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