The Ulema Strike Back: Will they succeed in making terrorists unacceptable to Muslim society?
By Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN
Mahmood Madani, a Rajya Sabha MP and general secretary of the Jamiat ventures an educated guess. "After 9/11 and the initial knee-jerk condemnation of Islam, people grew curious about our religion and started reading up on it," he says. (George Bush himself declared from the Islamic Centre in Washington DC that terrorism was alien to the true spirit of Islam.) "The ulema thought that the world, especially the western media, would understand and stop demonising our religion. They didn't. The lie has been repeated a thousand times, and Islam-bashers now believe that perhaps Islam does support terrorism. We have to counter the lie."
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