Turkey seeks a more modern Islam


	Turkey seeks a more modern Islam

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ced4231-450d-4a1a-ac52-51e56dfdb201/F508ED19-BB85-4133-9997-6035930CB404/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html">Turkey's highest 
                              religious authority, the Diyanet, has instructed a 
                              commission of scholars to re-evaluate the Hadith 
                              (oral traditions relating to the words and deeds 
                              of the Prophet Mohammad) with respect to modern 
                              society</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html">Turkish Islam 
                              has always had a very different face and practice 
                              to Arab or African Islam</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html">Ottoman 
                              expansion forced Muslims to embrace and co-exist 
                              with Christian and other groups. This tradition of 
                              diversity allowed for the inclusive societal 
                              model, the <I>millet</I> system, a type of 
                              religious federalism</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html">Turkey's Sufism 
                              has a non-literal and inclusive reading of 
                              religion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JC27Ak01.html">There is no place for 
                              enemies or "others" in this system. Gulen, 
                              Turkey's best-known and most modern Sufi 
                              philosopher, rejects the idea that a clash between 
                              the "East" and "West" is necessary, desirable or 
                              inevitable and frequently emphasizes that there 
                              should be freedom of worship and thought in 
                              Turkey.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F508ED19-BB85-4133-9997-6035930CB404/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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