Surveys carried out on public networks in Saudi Arabia showed that 92 percent of the Saudis approved the way of IS, and it is easy to see why: this is what they were taught at school and this is what they hear in the Friday sermons from the mosques. There has never been a demonstration against IS in Arab countries, and Arab youth are flocking to IS to express their own identity or in search of dubious thrills. Not all will come back. There is only one way to change that state of affairs: a reform of the laws of Islam. Mission impossible? In Egypt, President Abdel Fattah Sissi has declared more than once that the more extreme expressions of the sharia should be amended. Acting upon his instructions, the Egyptian Education Ministry canceled last June the course of Islamic education being taught in schools; moral values were added to a new textbook. This important step did not receive the recognition it deserved in the West.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:03:45 +0000
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