Clash of religions?

For Iranian journalist Amir Taheri, "the attempt by neo-Islam to destroy individual freedoms is as great a threat to Islam as the Inquisition was to Christianity. By emphasizing martyrdom as the supreme goal for Muslims and trumpeting 'the clash of civilisations', neo-Islam also poses a threat to world peace and international law. In order to protect itself, Islam needs to revive its theology with the stress on divinity. In other words, Islam has to become a religion again. That does not mean Muslims have to keep out of politics or not feel concerned by Palestine, Iraq and Kashmir or any other political cause that might interest them. It means that they have to recognise that these causes, like other similar ones, are political, and not religious."

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