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Consider, for analogy that while there were many critics of the Catholic Church before Luther, he really kicked the whole thing off.įundamentalist Salafism (or Wahhabism) became closely associated with Qutb’s writings in the 70’s. Qutb wrote that Jihad is an offensive struggle- not an entirely new idea, but popularized by him. You know how people say ‘ Jihad is an internal or defensive struggle’? That’s a pre-Qutb interpretation. He, essentially, preached what we see today in Jihadists. In the modern sense- there was a major shift in the 1950’s with the writings of Sayyid Qutb. This and similar verses were used to justify the Muslim expansions into the rest of the Middle East- so it’s hardly a non-traditional reading. “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” For example- chapter 9 (At-Tawba), verse 5: There are some verses, called ‘Sword Verses’. Like Every Other Religion, Islam Isn’t Uniform Over at Reddit, someone asked the question ‘does Islam’s holy book say to kill people or is that just an interpretation?’īelow are eight well considered answers to that question from every conceivable angle.
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In light of the extremist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Nigeria, and against a Russian passenger plane in the last few weeks, many in the West are wrestling with questions of ideological coexistence.