Monday, June 02, 2008

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"Tin-opener theology from Turkey
By Spengler

For months we have read news reports of an Islamic reform stemming from the University of Ankara's theology department. A widely-cited February 28 report by Robert Pigott, the BBC's religion correspondent, claimed that Ankara would 'fashion a new Islam' along 'revolutionary' lines. In less flamboyant tone, the story resurfaced in the June 8 issue of Newsweek under the headline, 'The New Face of Islam'."

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