Clerics
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There are
clerics
who are sharing peaceful interpretations of Islam.
The lion's share of the footage in both is identical, but here is where they differ: In one version (the version I have seen most often on broadcast TV), the group of
clerics
guarding the gateway consists of the "Brotherhood of the Protectors", a (fictional) splinter group of priests and brothers "excommunicated" by the Church.
In the other version, which I've seen only once on TV, the
clerics
guarding the gateway are depicted as priests of the official Church, meaning the Archdiocese of New York (or perhaps Brooklyn).
Also, in the former version, in most of the pertinent scenes, the
clerics
are referred to as "brothers" (and in some scenes, you can see where the lips say "Father" so-and-so but the dubbed audio says "Brother" so-and-so.
The targets range from police stations and liquor stores in the Caucasus to mainstream Muslim
clerics
in Tatarstan to ordinary people elsewhere in Russia.
Why are the Wahhabi clerics, the main opponents of reform and progress, continually indulged as the Kingdom’s de facto co-rulers?
One future for Iran would be mostly an extension of what already exists, i.e., an Iran run by conservative
clerics
and an aggressive Revolutionary Guard, with the latter increasingly enjoying the upper hand.
More importantly, Iran’s Shia
clerics
were both organized and politically active in a way that Pakistan’s Sunni clergy have not been.
In the short term, the iron-fisted Naif, as Crown Prince, will push the Kingdom into greater repression, in part by strengthening the hardline Wahhabi clerics’ place in the country’s power nexus.
The call by the most important group of Iran’s
clerics
for the election results to be thrown out is but the latest sign of the fight back of both the reformist and pragmatic conservative factions.
His populist rhetoric and religious fundamentalism have alienated a large section of conservative-pragmatist
clerics
and their supporters.
A soi disant “burkaphobe,” he has been a vocal critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy; and he has called for laws to regulate what can be preached in mosques, and to create a registry for Muslim
clerics.
But they view their Islam as part of their Iranian identity, whereas the older
clerics
viewed Islam as a universal revolutionary identity.
Some Muslims, including clerics, maintain that covering women’s faces is not actually a Muslim tradition.
The only candidates allowed to run were men with impeccable religious credentials, loyal to a regime whose most important decisions are made by unelected
clerics.
They were mostly quashed by the
clerics
who held ultimate power.
My foundation, which provides practical support to help prevent religious prejudice, conflict, and extremism, has been active in Nigeria for several years, bringing together Christian and Muslim
clerics
to foster mutual understanding.
In Qatar, there is no religious police enforcing morality, even if Qatari
clerics
openly raise funds for militant causes overseas.
The Ulema Council, a group of influential clerics, has given its backing as well.
Though some of Iraq’s conservative local
clerics
wield considerable influence, its current leaders will resist any drive to transform the country into a socially repressive and isolated state.
In a sign of unity, a council of Sunni Muslim scholars in the eastern city of Lahore issued a fatwa, signed by 50 clerics, saying that the justifications cited by the girl’s attackers were “deviant” and had no basis in Islamic law.
In China, though
clerics
and soldiers blocked development for centuries by forbidding any external contact, the rise of an anticlerical regime finally opened the way for modernization.
Political and military rulers have managed to rally Islamic
clerics
behind opposition to religious reform, silencing anyone who dared to defy them.
It is time for believers to pester their
clerics
– and non-believers to hound those who believe – to provide what no politician can: an injunction to respect all people, regardless of their beliefs.
Soroush's ideas are also spread by the informal talks he gives at Tehran mosques, gatherings that include young clerics, regime opponents, intellectuals, political independents and even government technocrats.
The question raised in October 2003 by then US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is no less relevant today: “Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical
clerics
are recruiting, training, and deploying against us?”
Rather then listening to radical clerics, they are busy assimilating, sending their kids to law and medical school, barbequing on weekends, and going to (American) football games – all while still maintaining devout ties to their religion and community.
Nine-year-old Saudi girls chat online, disregarding fatwas issued by Wahhabi
clerics
that forbid them access to the Internet without the supervision of a male guardian.
Now some
clerics
have pronounced driving by women to be foreign-inspired haram, punishable in the same way.
Arab and Muslim leaders need to make this clear, be it in public pronouncements by politicians, lectures by teachers, or fatwas by leading
clerics.
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