Publisher's Synopsis
Radical ideologies have influenced Muslims in many ways:
-On December 2007, a Muslim father in Canada called the police to confess that he strangled his 16-year-old daughter because she refused to wear a hijab.
-In 1979, Pakistan adopted an unjust rape law. For almost 30 years, hundreds of rape victims were jailed instead of their rapists.
-In Bangladesh, a radical party carried out more than a thousand bomb attacks across the country between 2000 and 2005.
-Violent conflicts between Muslim sects has been a never-ending source of destruction and suffering.
In Eeshat Ansari's new book, An Islam-inspired Solution to Radicalism: A Peaceful and Practical Approach, he demonstrates his deep knowledge of Islamic teachings, focusing on Islam's strong condemnation of zulm (injustice/oppression), a term mentioned an impressive 291 times in the Quran. Using this and other guidance from the Quran and ahadith, Ansari proposes a peaceful solution to end Muslim inter-sectoral and intra-sectoral conflicts.
Leaders like Sayyid Qutb and Syed Abul A'la Maududi claim it is the duty of Muslims to establish a global Islamic government by waging endless jihad. After carefully analyzing and critiquing their arguments, and utilizing the arguments of numerous other scholars, Ansari concludes that nowhere does Islam mandate political dominance all over the world by waging jihad.
Over the last few decades, mistaken interpretations have ruined the lives of millions of people, both Muslim and non-Muslim, and destabilized countries and entire regions.
Besides convincing analysis, Ansari suggests how individual Muslim man and woman can help peacefully change the thinking of radical leaders and followers alike.
Yes, there exists a practical and peaceful solution to Islamic radicalism!
