Radical Islamism & Jihad
Taliban and Al-Qaeda: Theological Tensions?
Is this end of a beautiful friendship?
The Taliban and Al-Qaeda have enjoyed a long alliance in Afghanistan. Their
relationship, based on a seemingly shared brand of severe and militant
Islam, even survived the U.S.-led toppling of the Taliban in 2001, which
came after leader Mullah Omar famously refused to turn over to the Americans
his Al-Qaeda ally, Osama bin Laden.
To this day, that relationship endures. But will it last? Rifts and tensions
between the Taliban and Arab Al-Qaeda, as well as vastly different Islamic
traditions, suggest that a basis for separation exists. Whether it occurs
could determine whether peace negotiations between the government of Afghan
President Hamid Karzai and his Taliban foes ever get off the ground.---
Jeffrey Donovan
Deobandi Islam: The Religion of the Taliban
A rejoinder to a series of booklets entitled "Johannesburg to Bareilley
(DEOBANDI-ISM CAUGHT UP IN ITS OWN WEB)
By Allamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi Rahm.Translated by S.G. Khawajah
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Islam and Politics
Babri masjid dispute: Finding a solution
That any temple built at Ayodhya will have been built on the blood of so
many innocent lives, and by imperilling so many moral and constitutional
principles, ought to be a matter of shame for most Hindus who care about
Ram. This is an issue on which there is unlikely to be any settlement that
appears just, and there are no guarantees that even a settlement will lay
many of the murderous edges of Indian politics to rest. But it will take a
divisive issue off the agenda and potentially transform our politics. There
is no option other than to try. As a society we long gave up on justice. At
the present conjuncture, we can only hope that we will at least opt for
prudence. -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Through the 20-minute documentary – Bone of Contention — by Saurabh Pandey,
not just this but also Ayodhya's inhabitants desire to come out of the
viciousness of past stands out remarkably.... One message that comes out
loud from the film is that an amicable solution to the mandir-masjid problem
can be found by the people of Ayodhya, given the fact that there is no
'outside' interference. -- Abid Shah
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Islamic Sharia Laws
DRUNKEN TALAQ: HOW SOME FATWAS DISTORT ISLAM AND OPPRESS WOMEN
The Darul Uloom Deoband and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board are in
the news again for the wrong reasons — the former for issuing another
misogynist fatwa, and the latter for supporting the former's obscurantism.
The misfeasance in question this time is the pronouncement that talaq
uttered by a Muslim husband in a drunken state is valid. This nonsensical
ruling has once again exposed the medieval bias of some Muslim clerics. This
fatwa is not just bad in law but also bad in theology, as it is not based on
the Quran, the locus classicus of Islam. The Deoband muftis have been honest
enough to concede that their recent articulation is grounded in the Hanafi
law. It is common knowledge among Muslims that the Hanafi fiqh contains many
provisions that are repugnant to reason. For instance, according to
Al-Marghinani's Hedaya, one of the most celebrated treatises of Hanafi legal
thought, the wife of a missing or absconding husband can remarry only after
a minimum of 90 years have elapsed from the day of his birth. -- A. FAIZUR
RAHMAN
Muslim personal law board betrays word, spirit of Quran: The Quran
repeatedly asserts that "no change can there be in the words of Allah
[10.64]". It means that for any rule or law, to be Islamic, it must be
consistent with the provisions of the Quran. Once this position is accepted
it will become easy to make the distinction between "Quranic laws" that
release mankind "from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon
them [7.157]" and the "cleric laws" that "mislead [men] by their appetites
unchecked by knowledge [6.119]". -- Arif Mohammed Khan
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