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Titolo: Muslims find errors in Pope's presentation of Islam (Reuters)

Interessanti controargometi di dottori islamici, alcuni sensati e altri 
capziosi. Sentiamo voi specialisti del Corano che cosa ne pensate <g>
Am.
 Muslims find errors in Pope's presentation of Islam
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor  Sat Oct 14, 10:23 AM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - Senior Muslim scholars, taking up Pope Benedict's call 
for a frank dialogue, have written him an open letter listing factual 
errors in his recent speech on Islam that sparked protest across the 
Muslim world.
The 38 experts, including grand muftis from the Muslim world and 
scholars based in Britain and the United States, said they accepted the 
Pope's stated regrets over the uproar and his expressions of respect for 
all Muslims.
The politely worded letter challenged the former theology professor on 
his own area of expertise and gave him poor marks for misreading the 
Koran, failing to use terms correctly and citing obscure and possibly 
biased sources.
"The letter represents an attempt to engage with the papacy on 
theological grounds in order to tackle wide-ranging misconceptions about 
Islam in the Western world," said Islamica Magazine, an international 
quarterly on Muslim affairs that posted the open letter on its website 
on Saturday.
Managing editor Mohammad Khan told Reuters a copy of the letter would be 
handed to the Vatican nuncio (ambassador) on Sunday in Amman, where 
Islamica has an editorial office.
MISREADING THE KORAN
Speaking in Regensburg in early September, Benedict quoted a 14th 
century Byzantine emperor as saying Islam was evil and irrational and 
had been spread by the sword.
The speech sparked protests across the Muslim world, several churches 
were attacked in the Middle East and an Italian nun was murdered in 
Somalia. Benedict has said he did not agree with the emperor he quoted.
The scholars included grand muftis of Egypt, Oman, Uzbekistan, Istanbul, 
Russia, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as well as a Shi'ite ayatollah, 
Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Mohammad bin Talal and Western-based 
academics.
They faulted Benedict for arguing that a Koran verse advocating 
religious freedom was written while the Prophet Mohammad was politically 
weak and "instructions ... concerning holy war" written when he was 
strong.
The verse was written when Mohammad ruled in Medina and wanted to keep 
converts from forcing their children to abandon their Christian or 
Jewish faith for Islam, they wrote.
The letter also faulted him for translating "jihad" as "holy war," 
saying "jihad" means a "struggle in the way of God" and did not 
necessarily have to include force.
DODGY SOURCING
Benedict used a "very marginal source," the scholars wrote, when he 
quoted an obscure 11th century thinker, Ibn Hazm, to say Muslims thought 
God was so transcendent that he was not even bound by his own word.
They also disputed passages where he said or implied that Islam was 
irrational, violent and based on forced conversion.
"Had Muslims desired to convert all others by force, there would not be 
a single church or synagogue left anywhere in the Islamic world," they 
wrote.
They asked how Benedict could argue that violence was against God's 
nature when Jesus Christ used it to drive the money-changers out of the 
Temple in Jerusalem.
It would be better to say cruelty, brutality and aggression were against 
God's will, they argued, adding that the Islamic concept of jihad also 
condemned these scourges.
The letter acknowledged that some Muslims used violence "in favor of 
utopian dreams," but said this went against Islamic teaching and 
specifically condemned the murder of the Italian nun in Somalia.
The scholars also chided Benedict for basing his view of Islam on books 
by two Catholic writers, saying Christians and Muslims should "consider 
the actual voices of those we are dialoguing with, and not merely those 
of our own persuasion."

 of our own persuasion."
Cosa che i mussulmani fanno costantemente, vero?
Sono sempre così rispettosi del credo altrui e reprimono e condannano
sempre e "senza se e senza ma" quelli dei loro che si comportano in
modo intollerante ed irrispettoso della dignità dei non mussulmani.
Mirco
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