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[Wall Street Journal] Bret Stephens - Suppose for a moment that the single most influential religious leader in the Muslim world openly says, "I am for Israel." Abdurrahman Wahid, 66, a former president of Indonesia, is the spiritual leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), an Islamic organization of some 40 million members. In the early 1960s, Wahid, whose grandfather founded the NU in 1926 and whose father was Indonesia's first minister of religious affairs, won a scholarship to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which for 1,000 years had been Sunni Islam's premier institution of higher learning. Wahid hated it. "These old sheikhs only let me study Islam's traditional surras in the old way, which was rote memorization," he recalls. In 1966 he left Cairo for Baghdad University, where he encountered much the same thing. "Right now, the fundamentalists think they're winning," he once told a friend. "But they're going to wake up one day and realize we beat them." 2007-04-11 01:00:00Full Article
Indonesia's Former President Offers a Model of Muslim Tolerance
[Wall Street Journal] Bret Stephens - Suppose for a moment that the single most influential religious leader in the Muslim world openly says, "I am for Israel." Abdurrahman Wahid, 66, a former president of Indonesia, is the spiritual leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), an Islamic organization of some 40 million members. In the early 1960s, Wahid, whose grandfather founded the NU in 1926 and whose father was Indonesia's first minister of religious affairs, won a scholarship to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which for 1,000 years had been Sunni Islam's premier institution of higher learning. Wahid hated it. "These old sheikhs only let me study Islam's traditional surras in the old way, which was rote memorization," he recalls. In 1966 he left Cairo for Baghdad University, where he encountered much the same thing. "Right now, the fundamentalists think they're winning," he once told a friend. "But they're going to wake up one day and realize we beat them." 2007-04-11 01:00:00Full Article
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