The literalist obsession of the Taliban with criminal law violates basic Islamic mandate for egalitarianism based on kindness, mutual respect, and forgiveness
Beyond The Pale: How Taliban Literalism Violates Basic Islamic Mandate
Tag: Sharia
Inevitably Disastrous: Why World’s Biggest Islamic Org Opposes Caliphate
Nahdlatul Ulama has cited ISIS’s attempt to create a so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria and argued it will inevitably be disastrous and contrary to the basic purposes of Sharia—the protection of religion, human life, sound reasoning, family, and property
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Nahdlatul Ulama: How Biggest Islamic Org Is Taliban Antithesis
Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s biggest Islamic organisation, is an antithesis of the Taliban but it is hardly known perhaps because its progressive ideas do not fit into the dominant narrative about Islam particularly when Islamophobia is lucrative and many demagogues globally have tapped into it for political power
