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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (38350)4/11/2004 1:27:53 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793841
 
I reread the Daniel Pipes piece on "Which Islam is Best" thinking I'd send it along to a friend. I got to thinking about the categories of Islam defined and I'm not sure I see any difference between that and Christianity. Do you? Certainly the distribution of the population is different but the categories seem the alike to me, no? And would that not apply to Judaism as well?

<<Like other analysts, Benard finds that in relation to their religion, Muslims divide into four groups:

Fundamentalists, who in turn split into two. Radicals (like the Taliban) are ready to resort to violence in an attempt to create a totalitarian order. Scripturalists (like the Saudi monarchy) are more rooted in a religious establishment and less prone to rely on violence.

Traditionalists, who also split into two. Conservatives (like Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq) seek to preserve orthodox norms and old-fashioned behavior as best they can. Reformists (like the Kuwaiti rulers) have the same traditional goals but are more flexible in details and more innovative in achieving them.

Modernists (like Muammar Gaddafi of Libya) assume that Islam is compatible with modernity and then work backwards to prove this point.

Secularists again split into two. The mainstream (like Atat rkists in Turkey) respects religion as a private affair but permits it no role in the public arena. Radicals (like communists) see religion as bogus and reject it entirely.>>
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