[quote]doogie wrote:
lixy wrote:
doogie wrote:
Name a couple of these “high-profile muslim leaders”.
To name only the most prominent scholars:
Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi
Ayatollah Muhammad Husain Fadlallah
AbdulHakim Murad
Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi
Ayatollah Ali Khamanei
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Dr. Sherman Jackson
Muzammil H. Siddiq
Shaykh Muhammad al-Munajjid
Imam Zaid Shakir
Tahir ul Qadri
AbdulHakim Murad
Muzammil H. Siddiqui
Moiz Amjad
Sheikh Abderrahman al-Sudayes
Shaikh Abdulaziz Al-Ashaikh
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Jamil Abdul Razzak Hajoo
haykh Abdul Azeez bin Abdullah bin Baaz
Shaykh Muhammad Bin Saalih
Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Salah al-Lahidan
Siraj Wahhaj
They unambiguously condemn and denounce terrorism. Let me know if you wanna check by yourself their statements.
Are any of these scholars actually leaders of anything or anyone?
Edit: I mean to say I googled these names and they all seem to come from one website, but are any of them anything more than academics?[/quote]
Academics are the true leaders of Muslims. National leaders are simply politicians, whereas academics command immense respect due to their knowledge of Islam.
You can like/dislike a political leader, but that is hard to do with a someone who helps you to understand and increase your faith and your knowledge of it.