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...home to more than a third of the world's Muslims and the cradle of Sufi Islam. Shrines of Sufi saints are ubiquitous in India and Pakistan and still attract thousands of devotees. Yet the Taliban in Pakistan have set about destroying such sites, which are anathema to their literalist interpretation of the Koran. "Despite our ancient religious tradition," says Ayeda Naqvi, a writer and Sufi scholar from Lahore, "we are being bullied and intimidated by a new form of religion that is barely one generation old." (See pictures of the Taliban on LIFE.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sufism Defuse Terrorism? | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...victim and his family were Jews and therefore, Fofana believed, had to be rich. But once in court, Fofana sought to frame his behavior in jihadist language: after shouting "Allahu akbar" at the court, for example, Fofana gave his name as "Arabs, African, Revolt, Armed, Barbarian, Salafist [the literalist Muslim puritanism whose more violent incarnation is usually associated with al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups]." Later, Fofana, 28, appeared to taunt the victim's family by, among other things, giving his date of birth as Feb. 13, 2006, the date of Halimi's death. (See photographs of Nazi Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Trial Puts Focus on French Anti-Semitism | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...Posing a challenge to biblical or Koranic literalism has some merits, for such a belief requires a significant rejection of empirical reality. But the ridicule of the beliefs of all religious people, literalist and otherwise, is bigotry, and bigotry reinforced by proselytism...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: The Church of Atheism | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

Some observers in the U.S. and Pakistan are still holding out the possibility that Musharraf's main reason for imposing martial law was to rid himself of his bête noir, the "literalist" Supreme Court led by chief justice Iftikar Chaudhry, who is now under house arrest. That tribunal not only posed a danger to the validity of Musharraf's election as president in early October but also to the U.S. deal forged with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto that allowed her to return to Pakistan from exile as a symbol of resurgent democracy. With the persnickety high court "cleansed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the US Pressure Musharraf? | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...hibernating. In 2002 a Florida district court ruled unconstitutional a course that critics claim was loosely based on its New Testament portion (the Council denies a connection). Its spokespeople claim it is refining itself as it goes and its most recent edition, which came out last month, eliminates much literalist bias--but still devotes 18 lines to the blatantly unscientific notion that the earth is only 6,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Teaching The Bible | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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