Response to this
article by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer: “THEORY OF WAR AND PEACE IN ISLAM”, September 2009:
Mumbai, September
2nd, 2009:
Dear
Gottfried Hutter,
Thanks very
much for appreciating my article on War and Peace in Islam. Yes, this kind of
thinking has to penetrate deeper into the Islamic world. Unfortunately the
conservative ulama hold far more sway. Shari'a cannot be a stagnant body of
law. Such an approach will do no good to Muslims. It must evolve with changes
taking place around us.
Best wishes,
Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer
Chairman
Centre for Study of Society and
Secularism
602 & 603, Silver Star, Behind BEST Bus Depo,
Santacruz (E), Mumbai:- 400 055.
Website: www.csss-isla.com
Tel. 91-22-26149668, 26102089
Fax: 91-22- 26100712
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From: Gottfried Hutter
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 21:07
Subject: AW: [Secular Perspective] Islam and Modern Age
Dear Dr. Engineer,
I am very grateful for this article.
Thank you. I wished you would be heard in the whole Islamic community.
This is the way to change Western
misperceptions of Islam! But this way of thinking first needs to penetrate the
Islamic Umma.
After all, it seems, you agree with me
that Sharia needs to evolve. Thank you.
Best wishes
Gottfried Hutter
Von: secularperspective@googlegroups.com
Im Auftrag von Centre for
Study of Society and Secularism Mumbai
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. September 2009 07:49
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THEORY OF WAR AND PEACE IN
ISLAM
Asghar Ali Engineer
(Islam and Modern Age,
September 2009)
Islam has been much maligned today
as religion of war, not peace and compassion. The acts of terrorism on the part
of some international terrorist groups who indulge in needless and wanton
killing has further aggravated this image in the contemporary world. During
medieval ages also crusades threw up an image of Islam which pictured Muslims
as sword in one hand and Qur’an in the other.
It would be interesting to note that both during medieval as well as
contemporary times the images of Islam thrown up was …
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