In the West, the intelligentsia takes it for granted that the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and the rest are not Muslims, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” Shawki Allam has a more accurate view.
“Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: We Do Not Have the Authority to Pronounce ISIS Unbelievers,” MEMRI, August 17, 2017:
The Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawki Allam said, when asked in a recent TV interview why the state’s religious establishment had failed to pronounce ISIS unbelievers, that: “No matter what [a person] does with his life, as long as he does not renounce [the two shahadas], this does not lead to his expulsion from the fold of Islam.” “Declaring the expulsion of such a person from the fold of Islam is the prerogative of the judiciary,” he said in the Sada Al-Balad TV interview, which aired on August 17.