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An Islamic Reformation
In reading Michael Schuerer's book Marching Toward Hell , the author broached an intriguing subject. Those of us who have been laying the blame for the actions of radical Muslims on the doorstep of Islam have been castigated by opponents as narrow minded racists (even though this has to do with a religion and not a race per se), Islamophobic, or seriously uneducated thus highly discriminatory. If what Schuerer writes is true, our 'war against Islam' may not be so impractical after all. Schuerer states that Islam, lacking a centralized authority in modern times (no Rome like leadership since the Caliphate ended in the early 20th century), Muslim populations relied on their local imams to direct them as to what was permissible in Islam. Over time, many of these Imams became corrupted by state leaders, thus the message they were imparting to their umma was not resonating with the congregation. It took the success of Osama bin Laden to break the followers away from the co...
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