Halt Lasteren Van Islam! – Hizb ut Tahrir Jongeren

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by .
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Campagne van de Hizb ut Tahrir jongeren.

IK ROEP
HALT! TEGEN HET LASTEREN VAN ISLAM

Halt! Tegen het lasteren van ISLAM

De afgelopen tijd wordt Nederland overheerst door een klimaat van laster en platte belediging van Islam en de Moslims. En het is duidelijk dat bepaalde politici en andere personen van invloed de drijvende kracht zijn hierachter. In reactie zijn wij, de jongeren van Hizb ut Tahrir in Nederland, dit weekeinde gestart met de campagne “Halt het lasteren van Islam!”.
Met deze campagne, een grootschalige handtekeningen actie, willen wij de moslims een stem geven en hen in staat stellen te reageren. Opdat zij op gepaste, respectabele wijze uiting zullen kunnen geven aan de gevoelens van grote onrust en ongenoegen die bij hen zijn ontstaan als gevolg van het continue lasteren van de hoge waardes van Islam.

Daarbij willen wij met de campagne “Halt het lasteren van Islam!” tevens aantonen dat het platte beledigen van Islam en de moslims een tweespalt creëert in de Nederlandse samenleving, en dat het de harmonie van de Nederlandse samenleving ernstig verstoort.

Wij kunnen melden dat het eerste weekend van deze campagne positief is verlopen. Met open armen is het initiatief ontvangen, en wij hebben positieve reactie en uitingen van steun ontvangen van zowel moslims als niet-moslims.

Voor meer informatie en de petitie zie: HALT LASTEREN VAN ISLAM!

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The Word of Muhammad :: ZemZem

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Internal Debates.

The Word of Muhammad :: ZemZem :: ZemZem
The Word of Mohammad

Interview
Reformer Abdolkarim Soroush on the Koran

Michel Hoebink

Muhammad is the creator of the Koran. That is what well-known Iranian reformer Abdolkarim Soroush says in his book The Expansion of the Prophetic Experience that will be published early next year. With this view, Soroush goes further than some of the most radical Muslim reformers. In an interview with Zemzem by Michel Hoebink, he gives a foretaste of his book. Michel Hoebink works for the Arabic department of Radio Netherlands World. The Expansion of the Prophetic Experience will be published early 2008 by Brill. Leiden.

Since the coming to power of president Ahmadinejad, it has become increasingly difficult for Abdolkarim Soroush to work in Iran. For that reason, he has accepted invitations to teach at western universities such as Harvard and Princeton in the USA and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. In the past academic year he was a guest lecturer at the Free University in Amsterdam and the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Abdolkarim Soroush is regarded as the intellectual leader of the Iranian reform movement. Initially, he was a supporter of Khomeini. He held several official positions in the young Islamic republic, among which that of Khomeini’s adviser on cultural and educational reform. But when the spiritual leader soon turned out to be a tyrant, Soroush withdrew in disappointment. Since the early 90s, he is part of a group of ‘republican’ intellectuals who started out discussing the concept of an ‘Islamic democracy’ but gradually moved away from the entire idea of an Islamic state.

Soroush’s basic argument is simple: all human understanding of religion is historical and fallible. With this idea he undermines the Iranian theocracy, because if all human understanding of religion is fallible, no-one can claim to apply the shari’a in God’s name, not even the Iranian clergy.

In The Expansion of the Prophetic Experience Soroush makes clear that his view on the fallibility of religious knowledge to a certain degree also applies to the Koran. With thinkers such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Mohammed Arkoun, Soroush belongs to a small group of radical reformers who advocate a historical approach to the Koran. In his new book, however, he goes one step further than many of his radical colleagues. He claims that the Koran is not only the product of the historical circumstances in which it emerged, but also of the mind of the Prophet Mohammed with all his human limitations. This idea, says Soroush, is not an innovation, as several medieval thinkers already hinted at it.

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