Al-Qaeda’s violent methods and tactics have been coming under mounting criticism this year from Islamist scholars who once supported it. One by one they have been coming out in public to denounce the organisation’s actions as being counterproductive.

via Sunny, who follows up on thabet’s earlier observation that foreign policy is part of the problem, but not the only problem, by asking,

If foreign policy is only part of the problem, a fact neither Islamists nor the pro-war anti-Islamists want to acknowledge, what are other parts to the problem?

what do you think?

He accuses Maududi of wrongly equating the Islamic duty of ‘establishing religion’ with the setting up of an Islamic state with God as Sovereign and Law Maker. At Maududi’s hands, he says, ‘God’, ‘The Sustainer’, ‘Religion’ and ‘Worship’ have all been reduced to political concepts. In this way, Maududi, Maulana Nadwi says, sought to incorrectly suggest that Islam is simply about political power and that the relationship between God and human beings is only that between an All-Powerful King and His subjects. However, Maulana Nadwi says, this relationship is also one of ‘love’ and ‘realisation of the Truth’, which is far more comprehensive than what Maududi envisages.

Somehow I have far more respect for him than certain other ex-followers of certain other Islamic movements that shall remain nameless, but are being discussed here.