Terrorism and Islam are linked

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The Islamic scholar Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil 
Staquf is the secretary general of Indonesia's 
largest Muslim organization. He talks about 
Islamic terrorism. The West must cease to 
declare criticism of the religious foundation 
of the extremism as "islamophobic", he says.

08/18/2017

There is a very clear link between fundamentalism, terror and basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy "says Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia, in an interview with the" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "(Saturday edition of August 19, to Read at FAZ plus ). In particular, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, as well as the attitude of Muslims to state and law are problematic and lead to segregation and hostility. "Too many Muslims see civilization, the peaceful coexistence of people of different faith, as something to be combated," says Yahya Cholil Staquf. The growing fear of the West before IslamIs therefore quite understandable. And one must clearly say about the connections: "The West must stop explaining about these questions as islamophobic."

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"We must come to the conclusion that an understanding that sets the traditional norms of Islamic legal doctrine absolutely false. Religious values ​​and social reality must fit together. And it must be crystal clear that the state laws take precedence, "says the Islamologist in conversation with the Frankfurter Allgemeine.

© ARCHIV"There is a very clear link between fundamentalism, terror and basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy" says Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf.

Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf comes from a Sunni scholar's family. He is General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Muslim association in Indonesia, which is the country with the largest Muslim population worldwide. The community of Nahdlatul Ulama gives its membership with fifty million and at least partly understands moderate. Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf belongs to the spiritually oriented wing of the organization.