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7. Jihad fatwas on the Iraqi war need questioning
Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
The author criticizes the fact that some religious concepts, one of which is jihad, have been taken out of their traditional and historical context and are applied in a completely different framework. Jihad in the past was declared by an imam who had both political and religious authority to...
8. Does Islam promote violence? Cause, arguments and conferences
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Mu‘tazz al-Khatīb writes that many orientalists have been preoccupied with the ongoing debate on the relationship between Islam and the West. Montgomery Watt, Bruce B. Lawrence, and other have revealed how Islam is often portrayed as an alien, hostile and violent religion.
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