"Is Turkey Reshaping Muslim World?
June 2nd, 2008 by Fred Stopsky · No Comments
The Turkish Daily News highlighted recent efforts on the part of Muslim scholars in its nation to rethink the nature of the Koran as it pertains to issues of violence. Important Muslim thinkers are rejecting Osama bin Laden’s vision of jihad which has convinced many people in the Muslim world that the Koran grants its followers license to kill innocent people– and themselves. Momemtum is building within the Muslim world to r-examine what seemed an immutable tenet of faith, challenge what had been taken as literal truth and open wide the door of what actually constitutes being engaged in a jihad. It cited a recent Newsweek article about a group of Ankara-based scholars who are expected to publish a new edition of the Hadith before the end of the year as the most ambitious work in this area."
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