Muslim World Largely Ignores Call for 'Revolution' in Islam -Western Analysts React to Egyptian President's Speech with Skepticism But Hope
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
F. Michael Maloof / WND
WASHINGTON – It’s been four weeks since Egyptian President Abdel al-Fattah delivered his fiery speech to Islamic clerics at Al-Azhar University calling for a “revolution” in the faith to change its reputation as a violent religion at war with the world. What’s been the reaction in the Muslim world since? Deafening silence.
A request by WND for reaction from Muslim organizations in the United States, including the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Student Association, was met with nearly total silence. In the case of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, the spokesman hung up when asked for comment.
An exception was Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, a Sufi Muslim leader know for his criticism of fundamentalist Islam, including the Wahabbi stream of Islam promoted by Saudi Arabia, which is highly influential among U.S. Muslim groups.
Schwartz prefaced his comment saying that he was speaking only for himself.
“I consider el-Sisi’s rhetoric about Islamic reform to be problematical,” Schwartz said. “I do not think a military ruler can effect changes in Islamic thought.
“I am for the separation of the state from religious life, and as an example of that believe el-Sisi should stay out of religious affairs,” he said. “Let him reform the Egyptian state budget, the economy, the educational system and the judiciary.”
Schwartz said Sisi “is a dictator and so perceived even by some neoconservatives in the West.”
“He cannot impose changes in religion.”
The Dar al-Iftaa, an Egyptian government-sponsored religious institution responsible for issuing fatwas and religious opinions under the direction of Sisi, said it would seek to achieve the “highest degree of effective communication” with Muslims.
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He’s singing to a deaf choir, you can’t change people who have been severely mind controlled for thousands of years.
By the way, if I had to listen to the mind altering rhetoric coming out of those speakers like they do, I would be pissed off and crazy too.