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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (5898)3/6/2007 11:29:36 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 20106
 
"Why can’t legitimate Muslim clerics simply excommunicate the terrorist-extremists and end that issue?"

The term Cleric has no legitimacy in Islam. It is a Western term as is excommunication. I realize Muslims use it almost the same way as the Western media does now but that is a fairly recent phenomenon. Islam recognizes religious scholarship but also recognizes the person who is a scholar has no more legitimate claim to righteousness than the common man. The role of a scholar is to answer questions and give advice (Fatawa) on complex issues for circumstances that have not been an issue in the past. Some (Maybe Most) Muslims look at these people like Catholics look at the Pope. They don't usually admit the similarity but their commitment to follow fatawa is that strong. No scholars, that I'm aware of, claim to be divinely inspired, and I have personally seen corruption. That is not an uncommon claim among Muslims.

So this goes to the source of your previous questions. Why isn't the leadership loudly representing the Moderate Muslims. Any loud mouth is probably an extremists, although I don't know for sure. Moderates recognize that Islam is a relationship of one man to his one God, no go-betweens. True spokespersons for the entire billion population is almost an oxymoron. IMO
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