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Interpretations of Quran that urge violence against innocents, he argues, require poorly informed, out of context readings of a line here/ a line there in my view, not unlike practice of many Christian Fundamentalists. To show that, he cites ambiguous verses by which Muslim extremists justify their acts, and their deceitful disregard of everything Quranic that prohibits their acts. He insists that any valid Quranic interpretation must square with holy book's "general moral imperatives such as mercy, justice, kindness." "If reader is intolerant, hateful, or oppressive," he concludes, "so will be interpretation."

Far from sanctioning "holy war," Abou El Fadl reports, Quran does not even contain phrase. The entire concept of jihad as holy war was a later development rooted more in political and economic conflict than in religious difference. Moreover, far from supporting "get even" (for Israel, for economic imperialism, etc) justification for terrorism, Quran warns Muslims that injustice of others does not permit them to be unjust in return. Furthermore, warriors who attacked innocent civilians were regarded by classic Muslim jurists to be "corrupters of earth and criminals" -- guilty of "especially heinous crimes."

The eleven reactions to Abou El Fadl's essay add further depth to debate. Milton Viorst, Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker, praises it as a "brilliant" explanation of why Muslims are "on brink of becoming a permanent global underclass." Sohail Hashmi, who teaches international relations at Mount Holyoke College, agrees that politically motivated Quranic interpreters, not Quran itself, feed us-against-them mentality of violent Muslims. British culture critic Tariq Ali laments that "there was more dissent and skepticism in Islam during 11th and 12th centuries than there is today." On other hand, Abid Ullah Jan, a political analyst from Pakistan, blames all debates about Islam on "efforts by United States and its allies to achieve economic and cultural hegemony by dominating or destroying all opposition." He denounces essay as "an attempt to please Islam-bashers."

Abou El Fadl's response to commentaries asserts that extremists false fundamentalism threatens to turn Islam into "an idiosyncracy -- a moral and social oddity that is incapable of finding common ground with rest of human society." His motivation for engaging in debate against extremists, he says, is "to deny such groups their Islamic banner." In his view, ultimate issue for all Muslims ought to be extremists degradation of "the moral integrity of Islamic tradition."

Khaled Abou El Fadl, Tariq Ali, Milton Viorst and John Esposito. The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Boston, Beacon Press, 2002.