خلاصه ماشینی:
Imams and Fighting Radicalism in North America Indeed God enjoins justice and doing of good (virtue) and giving to kins- folk, and He forbids all that is shameful (lewdness), and abomination (evil), and aggression (wickedness): He admonishes you so that you might remember.
When discussing how radicalizing messages, herein defined as those that lead to extremist and violent tendencies, are disseminated and how to propose solutions, broader geographic differences have to be considered, for the Muslim community is not monolithic.
For example, Muslims in North America do not hear radicalizing messages from the pulpits,3 as such a prac- tice is unacceptable both to them and to the authorities, who stand ready to take anybody to task for that.
Sympathizers and critics of Islam analyze the “terror” suspects’ level of devotion and religious participation (or lack thereof) in an effort to either exonerate or vilify imams for the actions of some radicals.
Hence, imams must be sincere when explaining the negative impact of reli- gious radicalism both to the Muslim community and humanity at large.
Upon assuming the caliphate, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ended that practice and replaced it with reciting 16:9008 This tra- dition has remained in force among Sunni Muslim communities ever since.
Regardless of Ali’s religious credentials and his family ties to the Prophet, insulting any Muslim in such a manner is an extremist tendency, one that should be unthinkable in the case of Ali. The main reason for such a repre- hensible practice was political.