Word: koranic
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Butt says his goal is nothing less than to restore the rule of "central [Islamic] authority'' over as much of the world as possible, as in the time of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors. There is no way to interpret the Koran other than literally, Butt insists, and therefore no room for "moderation.'' If, in the Koran, he says, "Allah says fight, you fight. How can anyone take a 'moderate' view of this?" And as soon as he gets his passports back, he insists, he will be off to do as Allah commands. To his fellow radicals...
...center is the rock on which Abraham bound Isaac. Christians believe that at its southern end, Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers. And Muslims, who call it Haram al-Sharif (noble sanctuary), believe it is the site of Muhammad's Night Journey, recounted in the Koran, in which the Prophet ascended to heaven. But today this sacred place is battling simple gravity. A section of the Mount's eastern retaining wall - 40 sq m of teetering sandstone, pitted and creased by centuries of dusty desert wind - is bulging away from the great mass of the Temple. The darkness...
...KORAN: Does the holy book authorize murdering hostages...
...reaction, the Nepali capital erupted in the worst violence in memory as Hindus took revenge on the country's million-strong Muslim minority. Mobs stormed and set fire to mosques, including Nepal's biggest, the Jama Masjid, burned the Koran in the street and built barricades of burning tires. Rioters ransacked Muslim businesses, tried to storm the Egyptian embassy and torched the offices of airlines of four Muslim countries. Shops, offices and schools shut down, and the government imposed a curfew in the capital and two other cities. When police opened fire on a Kathmandu mob, two people died...
...Muslims." Headmaster Zakaria is less generous, and says his most important job?and the mission with which he charges his students?is to convert other Indonesians to his views. Those who don't agree with his strict interpretation of Islam, he says, are "slow to understand the Koran" or "just stupid." So far, Zakaria and his fellow believers have had relatively little success in changing the views of most Indonesians. So far, the quiet tolerance espoused by the likes of Maksun and Kasmawati has proved a bulwark against extremism...