Nowadays the truth of what someone says is not based on its correspondence with reality, but upon the identity of the speaker. A small group of non-Muslims in the West have been saying what Yahya Cholil Staquf says here, but instead of being invited to speak at the United Nations and write in the Wall […]
Muslim cleric: “Jihadist doctrine can be traced to specific tenets of orthodox, authoritative Islam”
“The senior member of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation has insisted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world…..He called for a rejection of Islamic orthodoxy, condemning it as ‘obsolete and problematic’ and ‘fuelling violence on […]
Top Muslim scholar: “Stop pretending that orthodox Islam and violence aren’t linked”
Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. There is a clear relationship between fundamentalism, terrorism, and the basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy. So long as we lack consensus regarding this matter, we cannot gain victory over fundamentalist violence within Islam. This is a vitally important statement by Yahya […]