Egypt’s president calls for ‘revolution’ to tame radical Islam
By Mark Ellis and Michael Ashcraft
While
liberal scholars and journalists work feverishly to dispel the notion
that Islam is inherently violent, the latest voice of alarm comes from
within Islam as the president of Egypt calls for “a revolution” to
tame radical Islam.
Extremists
are “making enemies of the whole world,” said President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi, as quoted in the Huffington Post. “So 1.6 billion people (the
Muslim world) will kill the world of 7 billion? That’s impossible… We
need a religious revolution” that would include an upgrade of
interpretations of texts birthed out of Mohammad’s warlike rise to
power.
“It
is unbelievable that the thought we hold holy pushes the Muslim
community to be a source of worry, fear, danger, murder and destruction
to all the world,” he said in unusual remarks from a Jan. 1 speech, as
quoted in the New York Times.
The
grim analysis was overlooked by mainstream media and appears to
contradict their interpretations of current events which allege that
Islam is no more guilty of the crimes committed in its name than
Christianity is guilty of racial crimes of the Ku Klux Klan.
Others
pan the comments, saying they concern themselves more about reinforcing
the new military regime than following the Quran. Sisi ousted the
democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi in
2013. Since the overthrow, Sisi has cracked down on the Muslim
Brotherhood, which he has characterized as a “terrorist group.”
While
the debate continues, acts of grisly violence in the name of Islam
appear in the news with disturbing frequency. A coldblooded attack by
three men with AK-47s on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo left
12 dead last week after the magazine dared to mock Mohammad in many
cartoons.
The
shocking bloodshed capped off a year of Islamist mayhem: The Islamic
State beheaded journalists, videotaped them and uploaded them to YouTube
in Syria. Al Qaeda killed 132 schoolchildren in Pakistan. Isolated
hostage and shootings occurred in Australia and Canada.
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