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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Is Turkey's gov't starting a Muslim Reformation?

Accounts from Turkey suggest that the government is attempting a bold reinterpretation of Islam. Its unusually named ministry of religion, the Presidency of Religious Affairs and the Religious Charitable Foundation, has undertaken a three-year Hadith Project to systematically review 162,000 hadith reports and winnow them down to some 10,000, with the goal of separating original Islam from the accretions of 14 centuries

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