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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43577)	1/23/2003 6:07:42 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Op-ed: Adab of difference of opinion in Islam Farish A Noor Today, the Muslim world is in need of such radical thought more than ever. The common prejudices of Muslims, particularly when it comes to questions of race, gender and power-relations between communities, need to be critiqued from within One of the saddest things about the contemporary Muslim world is the inability of Muslims themselves to abide by the adab (customary etiquette) of differences of opinion that has been developed by countless generations of ulema over the centuries. Though Islam both accepts and even celebrates internal diversity of thought and opinion, ordinary Muslims themselves, in their daily lived experience of normative Islam, have fallen short of the ideals that they preach. Witness, for instance, the tumult that has been brewing in the post-revolutionary state of Iran. The Iranian revolution of 1979 promised the birth of a new world order (for the Iranians at least) where the shackles and fetters of the past would be discarded once and for all. Having lived for decades under the iron fist of the Shah and his detested SAVAK secret police the people of Iran desperately longed for change and wanted to live in a country where they would finally be able to think aloud. dailytimes.com.pk