Muslim president of Egypt calls for revolution in Islam

Something quite extraordinary took place last week.

President Sisi of Egypt called for a theological revolution in Islam.

He complained that Muslim texts have permitted an alien ideology to be imposed on original Islamic texts, with the result that the rest of the world has been antagonized.

The rest of the world, he said, has gotten the impression that 1.6 billion Muslims want to kill everyone else in order that Muslims “might live.”

He denounced this “mindset” as a way of thinking that is destroying the Islamic world.

He proceeded to call on the clerics at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University (the Sunni world’s most prestigious) to launch “a religious revolution.”

This would be more extraordinary if a Muslim theologian were to give this, not a new president (and former army general) who is hated by many.  Sisi is despised by the Muslim brotherhood, a large minority of Egyptians formerly in power and now driven underground by Sisi’s government.  Because he was the leader of a military coup that drove out the popularly-elected Muslim Brotherhood government, many so-called moderates are suspicious of him, and many secularist democrats oppose him.

All that being said, this is a remarkable statement because it is coming from within the Muslim world, and from the leader of the largest nation in the Middle East.

Here is a summary from Raymond Ibrahim, an Egyptian Copt (Christian).

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-sisi-islamic-thinking-is-antagonizing-the-entire-world/