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Issues of Interpreting the Koran and Hadith
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By Patrick Sookhdeo
This paper looks at various interpretations of the Koran and certain themes such as violence, jihad and terrorism. The author argues that Western governments have made the mistake of dealing with Islamist movements as though they are the authentic representatives of Muslim communities and of Islam in general, thus further empowering them. He advocates that a better strategy would be to marginalize these groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Jama’at-i-Islami, Deoband and the Salafis/Wahhabis, as he sees these as the movements that take the jihad passages of the Koran most seriously.