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Olde Tyme Religion

Claims of religious ‘disability’

2018-07-29

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I have recently attended two seminars about combating extremism and the revival of religious discourse in Morocco. One was held in Rabat and was organized in cooperation with the Moslem World League of Makkah and the Mohammedia League of Scholars of Morocco.

Sounds impressive. And serious. Seriously impressive, in fact.

The second seminar was held at the Assilah Forum, in its 40th season. The two events were held to review the insights and experiences from counter-extremism and reform campaigns over the last decade. Participants at the Assilah Forum were mostly professors, intellectuals and civil organizations, whereas the participants in the other seminar were mostly religious scholars.

The Rabat seminar focused on jihadist attempts to distort concepts on issues such as religion, Sharia, jihad, loyalty, innocence and the relationship between religion and the state. It also called upon religious institutions and their scholars to combat this terrifying phenomenon by reinstating correct concepts, spreading the right interpretation of texts, instituting academies to train imams and teachers for dialogue and adopting soft power in order to restore the message of peace in religion.

Peace rather than submission? But how is peace to be defined if not by submission to the Master Religion?

Meanwhile,

Posted by:Fred

#3 I was at the local library this afternoon, and heard a very one-sided shouting match between the security officer and an obstreperous would-be library patron. The loudmouth was shouting "I ain't said nuthin'" and similar incongruities. Eventually it stopped. When I left I asked the lady at the desk what happened, and she said, "We had someone here who couldn't control his speech." Very diplomatic of her.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-29 16:44

#2 Were not the Ottoman Turks Sufis? I'm confused.
Join the crowd. The history of Islam and Sufism are confusing in the extreme. Some Ottoman Turks were Sufis, some weren't. There were both Sunni and Shiite Sufis. The repression of non-legalistic practices of Islam varies from one ruler to the next over the years.
The famous Sufi martyr Mansur al-Hallaj was executed for saying "I am the Truth" during a period of religious ecstasy. He had said this before, had been charged in court before, but until the very end, the judges let him off on that technicality. His last court case ended badly.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-29 16:42

#1 They are completely naïve about the nature of that which they worship and that which they debate.

A lot of dancing around the key issues of what exactly is Islam? And why is there a direct connection between disintegrating third-world societies and Islam?

Of course they avoided the fact that Malaysia has put a lid on religious discourse and tightly controls what their imams say...as well as who those imams are.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-07-29 11:31

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