The New Face of Islam -Christopher Dickey & Owen Matthews
Important Muslim thinkers, including some on whom bin Laden depended for support, have rejected his vision of jihad.
[A] new vision of Islam is taking shape. Momentum is building within the Muslim world to re-examine what had seemed immutable tenets of the faith...and to open wide the doors of interpretation that some schools of Islam tried to close centuries ago.
Intellectually and theologically, the most ambitious work is being done by a group of scholars based in Ankara, Turkey, who expect to publish new editions of the Hadith before the end of the year.
[Newsweek]
Muslim Seminary in India Issues Fatwa Against Terror -Bappa Majumdar
The ultra-conservative Darool-Uloom Deoband Muslim seminary in New Delhi, India, issued a fatwa against terrorism. Thousands of clerics and students cheered as rector Habibur Rehman read out a statement: "The religion of Islam has come to wipe out all kinds of terrorism."
(Reuters)
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