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Article: Radical Islam conflicts with tradition.(World)(Briefing/Western Asia)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2000
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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 ...