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...that," he says. "The idea of a caliphate is only now beginning to take hold in the Arab world. Europe won't come around until our example is there to follow." The caliphate would operate under Shari'a law, the system of ethical and legal conduct derived from the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet. Assem says the economic principles of Shari'a would ensure a fairer distribution of wealth. Shari'a prohibits interest payments on loans, for example (see next article), which Hizb ut-Tahrir claims prevents exploitation, while the ban on free-flowing currency would protect countries...
...couldn't believe it. After all, Roman Catholics criticize the Pope. Why can't Muslims be critical about their faith? "It's possible for a woman to be emancipated and be a Muslim if she sticks to Islam as a spiritual belief," she continues. "But I reject the Koran when it says girls must stay home and that it is right to beat women if they disobey their husbands. We have been led to believe that we have to preserve cultural practices that clash with Western norms." To change that, Hirsi Ali would scrap the subsidies given to Muslim organizations...
...also tackle its roots. JI draws support from Muslims disenchanted with their lot. The authorities need to ensure that Muslim communities in their countries are not marginalized or demonized. And they need to telegraph that JI is not Islamic but heretical. Like al-Qaeda, JI misinterprets and misrepresents the Koran to advance its own objectives...
ISLAMIC LAW SHE SAYS "I do not think that the Koran produced a law; the law is a result of centuries of human effort." HE SAYS "The argument that eliminates Islamic law as an intermediary is among those which, today, are threatening to plunge Muslims into religious anarchy...
...ethics appealing to each believer's individual conscience, not a strict code of conduct to be enforced by an outside authority. Oubrou argues for a more traditional interpretation, in which the expert analysis of religious texts determines the way all believers should act. For Oubrou, free interpretation of the Koran could lead to nothing less than the disappearance of recognizably Islamic values. Another crucial exchange focuses on who is qualified to interpret the Koran and the hadiths. Babès dismisses the assertion that Sunni Islam has no clergy; although it has no centralized authority, she argues it does have...