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Olde Tyme Religion
Top Muslim cleric urges education reform to curb extremism
2015-02-23
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious seat of learning, called on Sunday for education reform in Moslem countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious extremism.

Speaking at counter-terrorism forum in the Saudi holy city of Makka, Al-Azhar grand imam Ahmed al-Tayib linked extremism to "bad interpretations of the Koran and the sunna," the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.
That sounds promising...
"There has been a historical accumulation of excessive trends" that have led some people to embrace a misguided form of Islam, he told the gathering.

"The only hope for the Moslem nation to recover unity is to tackle in our schools and universities this tendency to accuse Moslems of being unbelievers," he said.
But if you start with taqfiris, where will it stop? Will you accept Shiites, Druze, Ahmadis as equally acceptable in the eyes of Allah? Good lord, Pakistan and others would have to change laws to accomodate such nonsense open mindedness.
Tayib's comments come days after he expressed outrage at the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group for burning to death a captured Jordanian pilot who took part in US-led air strikes against the jihadists in Syria.

On Feb. 4, after ISIS released a video showing Maaz al-Kassasbeh dying in a cage engulfed in flames, Tayib said the jihadists deserved to be killed or crucified.
Isn't that the standard penalty for apostasy?
On Sunday in Meka, home to Islam's holiest sites, he made no mention of IS but denounced "terrorist groups... who have opted for savage and barbaric practices".

He blamed unrest in the region on a conspiracy by what he called "new global colonialism allied to world Zionism."
Aaaaannnnd there he lost the thread of this beautiful new fabric he was weaving.
Tayib said that this plot has exploited "confessional tension" in conflict-hit Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya.

The opening day of the conference also heard a speech from Saudi King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
 who called for "an efficient strategy to combat terrorism."
You could start by cutting off all support from your kingdom for such groups, your kingness...
Terrorism is a scourge which is the product of Death Eater ideology," the monarch's speech, read by the governor of Meka, said.

"It is a threat to our Moslem nation and to the entire world."
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