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Betting On The Wrong Horse: The Battle To Define Moderate Islam

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Betting On The Wrong Horse: The Battle To Define Moderate Islam

Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt, defended the killing of some 800 non-violent protesters on a Cairo square in the wake of the 2013 military coup. A Yemeni-born cleric, Mr. Al-Jifri, is part of a group of Islamic scholars who project the Emirates as a beacon of an autocratic form of moderate Islam. The group includes the former Egyptian muftsi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, a respected Mauritanian theologian and Hamza Yusuf, one of America’s foremost Muslim figures. Mohammed al-Issa is the secretary general of Muslim World League, which is used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to garner religious soft power.

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