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Article: The New Face Of Islam.(Religion)(hadith)
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- June 9, 2008
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Byline: Christopher Dickey And Owen Matthews; With Sami Kohen In Istanbul And Maziar Bahari In Tehran
A critique of radicalism is building within the heart of the Muslim world.
Back in the mid-1990s, Osama bin Laden had a problem, and it was Islam. He wanted to say the Qur'an gave his followers license to kill innocents--and themselves--in the cause of "jihad." That was how he could justify his global campaign of terror. But that's not what the Muslim holy book says, and that's not the way it was interpreted by any of the great scholars and preachers of the faith.
So bin Laden set about spinning the revelations contained in the Qur'an and the ...