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Even if those who abuse women believe their actions follow Islamic teaching, their thinking is not necessarily correct. The sins of Muslims must never be confused with Islamic doctrine. Furthermore, quoting from the Koran without context does readers a disservice. It is akin to quoting this verse from the Bible: "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man" (I Corinthians 11: 9) and concluding that Christianity is a sexist religion seeking to oppress women. Is this fair? No. Islam should be accorded the same courtesy. HESHAM A. HASSABALLA Villa Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 24, 2001 | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...university professor Tariq Ramadan - whose grandfather founded Egypt's Islamic revival movement the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 - begins to speak. "Now more than ever we need to criticize some of our brothers," he tells the packed hall. "My dignity depends on saying, 'You're unjustified if you use the Koran to justify murder.'" The French establishment - with its traditional mistrust of religion - views Ramadan with suspicion, but tonight he sounds like the voice of reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam in Europe: A Changing Faith | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...many of Europe's 12.5 million Muslims, now is the time to redefine Islam in the context of their identities as believers who were born and bred in Europe. The result is a kind of Euro-Islam, the traditional Koran-based religion with its prohibitions against alcohol and interest-bearing loans now indelibly marked by the "Western" values of tolerance, democracy and civil liberties. This new vision could well end up influencing the world these young Europeans' grandparents left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam in Europe: A Changing Faith | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Younger Muslims are far more individualistic in the way they interpret the Koran, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're any less devout," says Mustapha Oukbih, a 36-year-old journalist who lives and works in the Hague. The Dutch website Maghreb.nl, for example, has hosted chat rooms to discuss whether it's okay for Muslim newlyweds to have oral sex. "They want to decide for themselves how to live their lives," Oukbih says. This emphasis on personal choice is providing many Muslims with a new vision of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam in Europe: A Changing Faith | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...PHILIP WALKER LINDH, 20, an American who was among 80 Taliban survivors of the Qala-i-Jangi prison revolt; in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Lindh, who gave his name as Abdul Hamid, converted to Islam at 16 and traveled to northern Pakistan via Yemen to study Arabic and the Koran, where his divorced parents had lost touch with him. He faces possible charges of treason, but cannot be tried by the U.S. special military tribunals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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