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01/15/2015

Islamic "Thinking"

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in a New Year’s Day, 2015, address to a gathering of clerics at Al-Azhar. Sisi spoke of a renewed vision of Islam and gave his most impassioned plea to date on the subject. This is an extremely important speech, especially in light of the Paris attacks.

Excerpt:

I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing – and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!

That thinking – I am not saying ‘religion’ but ‘thinking’ – that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!

Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants – that is 7 billion – so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema – Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.

All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.

I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move...because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost – and it is being lost by our own hands.

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As noted by Raymond Ibrahim, regarding the last usage of umma, “It is unclear if Sisi is referring to Egypt (‘the nation’) or if he is using it in the pan-Islamic sense as he did initially to refer to the entire Islamic world.”

Source: RaymondIbrahim.com

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01/15/2015

Islamic "Thinking"

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in a New Year’s Day, 2015, address to a gathering of clerics at Al-Azhar. Sisi spoke of a renewed vision of Islam and gave his most impassioned plea to date on the subject. This is an extremely important speech, especially in light of the Paris attacks.

Excerpt:

I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing – and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!

That thinking – I am not saying ‘religion’ but ‘thinking’ – that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!

Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants – that is 7 billion – so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema – Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.

All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.

I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move...because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost – and it is being lost by our own hands.

---

As noted by Raymond Ibrahim, regarding the last usage of umma, “It is unclear if Sisi is referring to Egypt (‘the nation’) or if he is using it in the pan-Islamic sense as he did initially to refer to the entire Islamic world.”

Source: RaymondIbrahim.com

Hot Spots will return in a few weeks.

Brian Trumbore