Paris attacks: 'Islam has to fight against its own pathologies' warns French PM Manuel Valls

[Renew Deal]

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has suggested the Salafi movement represents "a real danger", and urged Islam to fight against its own diseases in the wake of the Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead.

"Wahhabism and a number of its abuses have changed the face of Islam. Salafism represents a real danger," Valls said on Monday morning (17 November). "Islam must fight against its own pathologies."

In the days after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January, attention has focused on the rise of Salafism in Europe, an ultra-conservative orthodox movement within Sunni Islam, based on a belief in violent jihadism, and Wahhabism, a form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia.

Speaking to journalist Patrick Cohen on France Inter, Valls said France had too extensively "given up to the power of those who want to impose their totalitarian thought and their laws, jihadism".

"We have an enemy within, and French people are asking us to fight radical Islamism," he added.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-islam-has-fight-against-its-own-pathologies-french-pm-warns-1529092

[Yo_Mama]

1. Well that goes almost without saying! It's pretty much what Al-Sisi said in January.

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-sisi-islamic-thinking-is-antagonizing-the-entire-world/

I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!

That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!

Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

That was in an address he gave to scholars at Al Azhar and officials at the Awqaf Ministry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Awqaf_%28Egypt%29

[romanic]

2. It's about time someone said it.

This violent and oppressive thinking in Islam is going to kill off the entire religion unless all of the moderate muslims take action instead of empty condemnations. How will they take action, I don't know but something has to be done and they have to be the ones at the forefront of this change.