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And we decided that we would elect the three most respected imams, and those imams would take turns, they would rotate who would say Friday prayer.
Now, this will require courage on the part of members, who will have to put their imams and priests on straight salaries, require audited financial statements that will be published and even reject contributions from unethical sources.
We saw this a couple of decades ago when Teddy Kollek, the great mayor of Jerusalem in the '80s and the '90s, was besieged one day in his office by religious leaders from all of the backgrounds, Christian prelates, rabbis, imams.
For the first time, Friday sermons led by local community imams promoted the rights of women.
They even sent liberal imams into the jails to persuade the jihadists that terror is un-Islamic.
Door to door, we went to more than 60 rabbis, imams, pastors and priests.
The third difficulty concerns the fact that, on both sides, most religious authorities, rabbis and imams alike, have maintained a hard-line stance.
Or you will be told stories about how Saudi trained imams are twisting the girls’ arms, turning them into unwilling stalking-horses for “Islam.”
For example, Morocco helps train imams in a form of open Islam, which currently is helping Mali move on from its recent bloodletting.
The idea of normalizing relations with Israel has incited fierce hostility among some imams in the mosques as well as on the Internet.
In Turkey, Friday prayers are written by civil servants in the 70,000-member State Directorate of Religious Affairs, and all Turkish imams also must be civil servants.
Parents, friends, and imams can spot signs of radicalization earlier than security officials can, and they act responsibly by contacting the relevant state agencies in such cases.
Hence Sarkozy’s decision to arrest other Muslim men suspected of Islamic extremism and bar certain imams from attending a religious conference in France.
And barring radical imams from entering France won’t stop another Merah from going on a murderous rampage.
The Sunnis have four imams and the Shias have twelve; their teachings all differ.
In Afghanistan, in collaboration with community shuras and protection committees, respected imams sometimes use their Friday sermons to raise awareness about the importance of education in Islam.
He is not so much a product of zealous imams from rural Morocco as of the West's information society.
It can be given shape by, for example, training imams in Europe, by encouraging mosques to promote social cohesion in their neighborhoods, and by more active participation by Muslims in the public debate.
So, for example, regardless of whether there are imams who recommend or tolerate female circumcision, the ritual cutting of girls’ genitals is a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
And, in many French Muslim communities, conservative imams have more influence in shaping the status of women than do school teachers or other local leaders.
Some are to Koranic prophets even older than Muhammad; others are to Shia imams or Sufi saints; and still others are to hallowed Muslim women.
The seductive call of extremism will not be silenced with pleas to fundamentalist imams in European mosques to stop indoctrinating young Muslim men.
One of the only iron laws governing human societies is that when women are both educated and free to work for money, they choose to have fewer children, whatever their bishops and imams may say.
Though Pakistani politics are generally secular, the country’s imams remain influential, and they successfully lobbied the government in April to allow congregational prayers.