Finally Someone Is Seeing Something About Extremism?
By skysuccess
@skysuccess (8857)
Singapore
December 8, 2008 2:16am CST
The headline on the Daily Mail UK reads: We Must Fight Extremism Says Top Muslim Scholar
The article mentions that Muslims have failed to do enough to challenge extremists and the promoters of terrorism, a senior Islamic scholar has said.
Dilwar Hussain of the Islamic Foundation said Muslims have done too little to produce leaders who can educate young people in Britain and guide them away from extremists.
Mr Hussain, who is policy head of the Leicester-based foundation, argued for the evolution of a new brand of Islam tailored to living conditions in the UK, in an article for a Labour think tank.
In his essay for the Institute for Public Policy Research, he said that the 'new theology of Islam' would have to address the inequality of women 'in some misogynistic Muslim cultures'.
He also said there was a need for Islam, which developed its ideas in countries where Muslims are a majority, to adapt to living as a minority in a secular country with other religions.
As far as Mr Hussain is concerned, I feel that the Muslims especially from the countries where terrorists are coming from should work together to abolish these extremists and prevent them from giving Islam a bad name. I felt that it should not just be UK here, but everywhere around. What are your comments and take on this? I think it is time to do some serious housekeeping here.
Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092757/We-fight-extremism-says-Muslim-scholar.html
2 responses
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
8 Dec 08
There have been many progressives in Mulsim countries, but the problem is that where Islam is the majority religion, the fundamentalists/traditionalists tend to overpower them. Perhaps the development of a new approach to Islam needs to come from somewhere that it is not a majority, like Britain. I applaud the gentleman for his stand.
Lash
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@murderistic (2278)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Many Muslim scholars and rulers have made statements about fighting extremism. Some of them even allows the US to torture terrorist suspects in their own country (extraordinary rendition).
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@skysuccess (8857)
• Singapore
8 Dec 08
murderistic,
I hate to bring this to you but do you have any proof of your allegations here? I hope this is not some baseless presumption(s) of yours.
I think this person is doing something which seems to be absent for the past decade(s) and it is just timely considering what has happened.
So, hope to see more of your posts here.
@murderistic (2278)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I'm not exactly sure who you are referring to as "this person."
Extraordinary rendition is not an allegation. It's a fact. Something that the USA PATRIOT Act allowed was to take non-citizens to foreign lands for interrogation with no charges, they just have to classify them as "special interest." I guess no one can really prove that there was torture because there are no videos or photos of it actually happening, but many have claimed that they have been tortured. The US denies it. Maybe they (the US) weren't the ones doing the actual torturing, but they may have instructed people from the foreign land to do the torturing.
Sources (peer reviewed from EBSCOhost, you can look them up in any library)
Donald Guteirrez - "The Extraordinary Cruelty of Extraordinary Rendition" from Humanist, Jan/Feb 2006.
Theofanis Verinakis - "The Exception to the Rule" from Social Identities, Jan 2007
There is also a documentary about this that accompanies the film "Extraordinary Rendition."
Arab countries that have been known to allow and perhaps participate in extraordinary rendition from the US include Syria, Morocco, and Egypt. There may be more, no one can really know for show. I know that Spain also allows it. And just to clarify, I think extraordinary rendition is a terrible and inhumane thing. But it just goes to show that not all muslim scholars and rulers are the evil as you claim them to be, in fact they are an entirely different kind of evil, the kind we have here in the US.
As for leaders that have denounced terrorism, I have made a very lengthy post with many quotes from Arab leaders denouncing terrorism. I'm searching for it right now, I'd rather not type up all those quotes again. :)
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