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Subject: Fw: Radical Islam conflicts with tradition; -Washington Times
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> Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah
>
> The Washington Times April 15, 2000, Saturday, Final Edition
>
> April 15, 2000, Saturday, Final Edition
>
> Radical Islam conflicts with tradition;
> Media focuses on militant groups, but neglects peace-loving faithful
>
> Geoffrey Smith; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>
> Radical Islam has been called by many in the West one of the gravest
> threats facing the world. Experts at a recent Washington conference,
> however, said that most of the precepts espoused by radical Islam conflict
> with that faith's ancient teachings.
>
> For years now, news reports documenting the terrors of extreme, militant
> Islam have been a mainstay of U.S. and Western media. This has focused
> attention on one subgroup of the faithful, often to the neglect of the
> thousands of peace-loving, tolerant Muslims who abide by the true teachings
> of their faith, said Sheik Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme
> Council of America, an organization of moderate Muslims.
>
> The conference, sponsored by the Supreme Council and Johns Hopkins
> University's School for Advanced International Studies, featured scholars,
> anthropologists, diplomats and Muslim leaders.
>
> Participants analyzed the nature of modern-day radical Islamic movements,
> from their origins in Iran and Afghanistan to their more recent infiltration
> of Central Asian regions such as Dagestan and Chechnya.
>
> ISLAM MISUNDERSTOOD IN WEST
>
> Mr. Kabbani, who acts as the khalifa, or deputy, for the North American
> branch of Sheik Nazim, spoke from the first word about what he called
> misperceptions in the West about the true nature of Islam.
>
> Sheik Nazim heads the worldwide Naqshbandi-Hakkani Sufi order. The
> Naqshbadiyya was founded in Central Asia and has been the dominant Sufi
> order in Central Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, North Cyprus, Turkey
> and the North Caucasus for the past 100 years.
>
> The radical Islam of the late 20th century is not really Islam, Mr. Kabbani
> contends. "There is no radical Islam," he said. "Radical Islam is something
> that is created. Islam is not created."
>
> Mr. Kabbani opened his remarks by quoting Islam's holiest scripture, the
> Koran: " 'To each among you we have prescribed a law and an open way. If God
> had willed, he would have made you all a single people,' " he read.
>
> The politicization of Islam is the primary factor in the development of
> radical factions of the faith, experts at the conference said.
>
> The powerful forces of modernization and globalization have caused the
> proliferation of extremist strains of the religion, Mr. Kabbani said.
>
> "With the growth of Islam, we see the birth of different schools of thought
> within Islam," he explained. "As previously isolated races and nations
> converge through the process of globalization and technical advancement,
> there are more opportunities for differences to arise."
>
> CORE TEACHING IS UNCHANGED
>
> For Mr. Kabbani, however, despite what he acknowledged to be the natural
> process of a growth of interpretation, the core Islamic teaching is
> essentially unchanged since the days of the Prophet Mohammed.
>
> "As we consider traditional Islam versus radical Islam - in Central Asia or
> anywhere else - we see that the difference between them lies not in the
> basic beliefs of the religion, such as the oneness of God, the message of
> the Prophet . . . the differences arise from love of authority and
> misguidance by people who don't fully understand the religion," he said.
>
> The early Muslims developed a democracy of their own, he said. In the early
> days of the religion, the Prophet Mohammed left the leaders to decide
> amongst themselves who should take over the religion.
>
> "Sultans and kings appoint their elder sons as their successors, but the
> Prophet didn't appoint anyone, and left it for the Muslims to decide," Mr.
> Kabbani said.
>
> Much of the discussion centered around the Wahhabi movement founded by
> Mohammed ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703-92) - which is dominant in Saudi Arabia and
> was historically influential in India and Indonesia - a strict sect often
> criticized in other Islamic countries as un-Islamic and backward.
>
> U.S. BACKED MUJAHIDEEN
>
> Saudi Arabia and the United States were main sources of financing, training
> and arms of the mujahideen, Islamic holy warriors who fought to expel the
> Soviet Union from Afghanistan in the 1970s and '80s with arms shipped
> through Pakistan and volunteers from throughout the Islamic world.
>
> Figures like Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile who has called for a holy war
> against the United States and has been linked to the August 1988 bombings of
> American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, were mainly shaped by the Afghan
> war and had little study of the basic religious teachings. People like this
> interpret Islamic teachings to justify violence, which the United States now
> brands terrorism.
>
> Trained primarily in religious schools in Pakistan refugee camps, and now in
> Afghanistan, these militants receive very little formal education and get a
> very distorted view of Islam, said Julie Sirrs, a former Defense
> Intelligence Agency analyst of Afghanistan who has made several trips there.
>
> Many of the those fighting there have been trained to believe that any
> Muslim who is not affiliated with the Taleban movement - the fundamentalist
> group that runs most of Afghanistan - poses a threat to Islam.
>
> "Often times, training schools seem to be a funnel for jihad movements," she
> said. A jihad is a holy war fought in the name of Islam.
>
> EDUCATION SEEN AS SOLUTION
>
> Brenda Shaffer, a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program
> at Harvard, said many of the Muslims who join jihad movements are young and
> relatively rootless, and do so because the watered down, universalist
> message is easy for them to understand and accept.
>
> Many Islamic leaders and mainstream scholars say education is the surest way
> to reduce violence in the name of Islam. As with other social ills, they
> argue, ignorance is at the root.
>
> Vitaly Naumkin, president of the International Center for Strategic and
> Political Studies in Moscow, said traditional Muslim leaders see education
> as the antidote to the separatist tendencies of many of these radical wings.
> Dagestan, the former seat of Islamic power in Russia, is a good example of
> this, he said. In Dagestan, Muslim leaders suggested education as a way to
> confront extremists.
>
> Wahhabism often makes inroads into a country because of environmental
> conditions, said Mr. Kabbani, whose Sufism has historically been at odds
> with Wahhabism. The latter arose as a return to strict monotheism; one of
> its main tenets is that prayers contain no names but God's. Sufis, on the
> other hand, invoke many saints.
>
> "Nations and societies which have succeeded best at preventing Wahhabi
> infiltration and insurgency are those which provide basic freedoms to their
> populace and which establish a strong economic base, thereby eliminating the
> causes of dissent and conflict," Mr. Kabbani said.
>
> ILLEGAL DRUGS RAISE CASH
>
> Historian Sherzod Abdullayev, formerly of Ferghana State University in
> Uzbekistan, said much of the recent funding for violent radical movements
> has come from the sale of illegal drugs.
>
> "Terrorism has become a very profitable business," said Mr. Abdullayev, who
> was speaking Russian, through an interpreter.
>
> Mr. Abdullayev said that international terrorism and radical Islam are
> closely tied and that together they pose a serious global threat. He cited
> the recent seizure of radioactive material in Uzbekistan as evidence of a
> terrorist threat.
>
> Early reports of the incident - said to involve 10 containers of radioactive
> material on an Iranian truck with an Iranian driver bound for Pakistan -
> appear to have been exaggerated.
>
> Russian news agency Interfax reported from Tashkent last week that nuclear
> scientists in Uzbekistan had found that the radioactive shipment, impounded
> March 30 at a customs post on the border with Kazakhstan about 12 miles
> north of Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, was not weapons-grade material.
>
> This week Interfax reported from Astana that the Kazakh foreign minister
> "regretted" the seizure of the shipment by Uzbekistan without seeking more
> information. He said the shipment consisted of scrap metal, some of it from
> uranium-mine machinery.
>
> Interfax quoted a panel of Kazakh nuclear physicists and secret service
> personnel as saying the main source of radiation was not the shipment but
> salt deposits in the truck's exhaust pipe.
>
> INSTABILITY DRAWS RADICALS
>
> Mr. Abdullayev said that radical Islam can be tempered and maybe even
> stopped through forces of political and social stability. In Afghanistan in
> particular, he said, stability is the key. Much of the drug trade originates
> in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is then transported by highway to Europe,
> infecting much of Central Asia.
>
> "The primary objective of Wahhabi movements is to create an 'Islamic' state,
> with the expectation that eventually it would stretch from Afghanistan to
> North Africa, and from Turkey south to Yemen and the Sudan," Mr. Kabbani
> said.
>
> In Chechnya, the rise of Islamic radicalism was swift. Before the first war
> for Chechen independence, Chechnya was home to moderate and mainstream
> strains of Islam. After the war, Mr. Kabbani said, radicalism invaded
> Chechnya. Radical foreign Islamists were attracted to Chechnya because of
> its instability and vulnerability. The radicals wanted to create "an
> independent military movement based where no government could interfere with
> it," he said.
>
> CIA Director George J. Tenet warned recently that Chechnya is set to become
> a magnet for Islamic terrorists
>
> Radical Islamists believe that violence is the only way to solve their
> problems and they use selected parts of the Muslim teachings as their
> justification, Mr. Kabbani said.
>
> The tone of radical movements is to a large extent dictatorial and
> authoritarian, Mr. Abdullayev said. In Afghanistan, he said, an Islamic
> leader killed 17 of his own fighters who doubted the legitimacy of the
> Islamic leadership.
> _______________________________
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