Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam *Rethinking Islam: Need for ijtihad is paramount<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1566> *
Serious rethinking within Islam is long overdue. Muslims have been comfortably relying, or rather falling back, on age-old interpretations for much too long. This is why we feel so painful in the contemporary world, so uncomfortable with modernity. Scholars and thinkers have been suggesting for well over a century that we need to make a serious attempt at Ijtihad, at reasoned struggle and rethinking, to reform Islam. At the beginning of the last century, Jamaluddin Afghani and Mohammad Abduh led the call for a new Ijtihad; and along the way many notable intellectuals, academics and sages have added to this plea - not least Mohammad Iqbal, Malik bin Nabbi and Abdul Qadir Audah. Yet, ijtihad is one thing Muslim societies have singularly failed to undertake. Why? -- *Ziauddin Sardar* 1 Comments More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1566> War on Terror *America, Give Pakistanis Books, not Guns<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1567> * *Unfortunately, the United States* has acted in ways that have often empowered the militants. We have lavished more than $11 billion on Pakistan since 9/11, mostly supporting the Pakistani Army. Yet that sum has bought Pakistan no security and us no good will.* *In that same poll, 59 percent of Pakistanis said that they share many of Al Qaeda’s attitudes toward the United States, and almost half of those said that they support Al Qaeda attacks on Americans.* *One reason is that America hasn’t stood up for its own values in Pakistan. Instead of supporting democracy, we cold-shouldered the lawyers’ movement, which was the best hope for democracy and civil society.* **-- **NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF* More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1567> Islam and the West *Israel steals Palestinian’s history too: 1948 no catastrophe, say Arab text books in Israel now<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1568> * Israel's education ministry has ordered the removal of the word nakba – Arabic for the "catastrophe" of the 1948 war – from a school textbook for young Arab children, it has been announced. The decision – which will alter books aimed at eight- and nine-year-old Arab pupils – will be seen as a blunt assertion by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government of Israel's historical narrative over the Palestinian one. -- *Ian Black*, Middle East editor, Guardian, London More.<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1568> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Dear Friends Check your inbox daily + delete your junk emails & keep your inbox empty! Its a friendly Request for all of my group members. ----------------------------------------------------- For More Information: Contact Us : M'E-Sagari Group Network Email: [email protected] : [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------- ...........|""""""""""""""""""""""""|\|_ ...........|........Hot Paki.........|||"|""\___ ...........|__________________|||_|___|) ...........!(@)'(@)""""**!(@)(@)***!(@)'' -~*´¨¯¨`*•~-.¸,.-~*´¨¯¨`*•~-.¸,.-~*´¨¯¨`*• Visite: www.hotpaki.net.ms Subscribe mail to: [email protected] send your comments and mail : [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
