Moderate Islam should not be ignored By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN May 23, 2004

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Moderate Islam should not be ignored By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN May 23, 2004

Moderate Islam should not be ignored
By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN
Militant Islam poses a serious threat to the entire world. As early as 1998, the imam and religious scholar Khaleel Mohammed, an assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University, described the way in which xenophobic interpretations of the Koran are being used to legitimize the anti-Semitic and anti-Western animus of Osama bin Laden and others like him. Mohammed is calling for a return to a more tolerant and authentic Islam. This call has, ironically, itself been labeled as a racist attack on Islam, and his important and timely message ignored.
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