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by Najat AlSaied
• April 8, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The lesson the Trump
administration might learn from the disastrous mistakes of its
predecessor is that the main sources of terrorism in the
region are political Islam and all its related religious
groups. All these radical groups, including ISIS, Al-Qaeda,
Jabhat Al-Nusra and Hamas have been spawned by a political
Islam driven by the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- The fight,
therefore, should not be against Islam, but against political
Islam. Islam needs to be practiced the way other religions
are, as a private personal faith that should be kept separate
from public life and politics, and whose expression should be
confined to worship only.
- Mosques, whether in
the Arab and Muslim world or in the West, should be places of
worship only and must not transformed to centers for
polarizing society or for recruitment by political religious
groups.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt speaks at
the Arab Summit, on March 29. The previous day, Sisi walked out of
a speech by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
Sisi was infuriated by Al-Thani's declaration of support for the
Muslim Brotherhood. (Image source: Ruptly video screenshot)
After each
Islamist terrorist attack in the West, the public is divided into
two camps: one angry and one indifferent. The problem with
defeating Islamist terrorism seems to be that either it is attacked
by conservatives who call Islam an evil cult or it is forgiven
entirely by liberal apologists. What, then, is the answer?
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