Word: korans
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...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...
...Sudanese government executed a theologian named Mahmoud Muhammad Taha for daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...
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...
...country where the best-known Islamic preachers are stolid men in their 60s who quote from the Koran in Arabic and confine their sermons to the mosque, Aa Gym is unique. The flamboyant 40-year-old spreads his message of self-control, personal morality, tolerance and faith with televangelistic theatrics. Although Islam is the granite base on which his message rests, Aa Gym's sermons tend to dwell on the practicalities of daily life rather than the hazy hereafter. His stock-in-trade includes greeting-card clichEs, self-help nostrums and pithy doses of advice on how to cope with...